Thesis Statement:
The International Criminal Court is an ineffective mechanism in providing justice to victims of crimes against humanity and prosecuting human rights violations to their necessary means; based on their inability for international unity, lack of funding and ratio of the court's timeline and case outcomes.
Essay Summary:
Following the genocides in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda made the need for an international court that prosecutes war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity that much more critical. In 1992 the General Assembly of the United Nations instructed the International Law Commission to draft a bill for such a court and in July of 2002, the Rome Statue established the official International Criminal
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It is either voted a preliminary examination or graded a situation under investigation. Once it is accepted as a case, it is brought through a six-stage process including the pretrial, trial, appeals, reparations, closed and revision. There have been 24 cases before the Court, in some cases, there has been more than one suspect. ICC judges have issued 30 arrest warrants; from this 30, eight persons have been detained in ICC detention centers and have appeared before the Court. ICC judges have also issued 9 summonses to appear. The judges have issued 6 verdicts, 9 convictions, and 1 acquittal. There are over 800 staff members today in the Court, from approximately 100 States. Critiques of the Court:
The timeline of the International Criminal Court speaks to the volumes of the failures of the court. Despite, becoming fully run in 2002, the court didn’t open its first case until September of 2009. The ICC depends on the cooperation of the states that have ratified it to turn over suspects and help in the information gathering process to speed up and actually complete fair and efficient trials. Case