#BuildingSupport: The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, visited the #ICC today and held meetings with the President, the Prosecutor and the Registrar of the Court. @TheJusticeDept
📷 #ICC President Piotr Hofmański and Registrar Osvaldo Zavala Giler met with the Attorney General of the United States, The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, during his official visit at the Court today. @TheJusticeDept#BuildingSupport
📷#ICC Prosecutor #KarimAAKhanKC, Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan and Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang met with the Attorney General of the United States, The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, during his official visit at the Court today. @TheJusticeDept#BuildingSupport
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ICC President Piotr Hofmański welcomes #ICC-NGO roundtable participants: “Although we are independent in our functions the relationship between the ICC & civil society is of special significance. We are partners in pursuing justice & rule of law + seeking human rights protection"
Prosecutor #KarimAAKhanKC at #ICC-NGO roundtable: “Strengthening partnerships with civil society is a priority for my Office. Your courage & dedication is a source of inspiration as we work together to improve delivering justice to communities affected by #RomeStatute crimes."
The Office of the Prosecutor of the #ICC is aware & will study the latest report of the General Secretariat of the Organisation of American States (@OAS_official) concerning alleged crimes against humanity committed in #Venezuela. Read more⤵️
The Office deplores the suffering inflicted upon women, men & children who are victims of alleged atrocity crimes. The ICC exists as a court of last resort to do justice for victims & where the treaty which governs the ICC states it must intervene in accordance w/t #RomeStatute.
The #ICC Office of the Prosecutor has made important progress in its preliminary examination into the situation of #Venezuela. Following a thorough assessment, the Office recently reported that crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court have occurred in Venezuela.
#ICC Prosecutor #FatouBensouda: “The legacy of #NurembergTrials is that no one is above the law, no matter how powerful. Atrocities as merely politics by other means must no longer receive a pass in our ethos. Never Again.” #justicematters
#ICC Prosecutor #FatouBensouda: “That legacy is personified through crucial work of my cherished friend @BenFerencz Chief Prosecutor at Einsatzgruppen trial, who is also in many ways one of the founding fathers of ICC & testified in the ICC’s first case decades after Nuremberg.”
#ICC Prosecutor: “With respect to Venezuela I, the Prosecutor conveyed that her Office had concluded its subject-matter assessment and determined that there was a reasonable basis to believe that crimes within ICC jurisdiction have occurred in Venezuela.”
#ICC Prosecutor: “In this regard, the Office sought information on relevant domestic proceedings in Venezuela & their conformity w/t #RomeStatute requirements.”
Referring to #UN75, #ICC President recalls that “the need for both the ICC & the @UN originated directly from the horrors of World War II” & both institutions share a common mission: “to achieve a world free of violence and conflict – with human rights for all” #UNGA ⬇
#ICC President Chile Eboe-Osuji: “That is the future that the ICC strives to foster. It is the future that assures that there will be accountability through the rule of law, justice for victims, when atrocities that shock the conscience of humanity have been committed” #UNGA ⬇