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How Can We Fix the International Criminal Court?

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March 21, 2019
The Failures and Future of the International Criminal Court (March 14, 2019)
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The International Criminal Court in The Hague is facing fundamental questions about its performance at every level. Is it time for reform? And if so, what needs to be done, and how? 

Author Phil Clark addressed these questions at a recent panel discussion. In his recent book Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics, he urges a major rethink about how the International Criminal Court operates, especially in the Global South.

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Financing Atrocity, Forging Accountability: New Strategies for International Justice

Economic crimes and grave violence often occur in tandem. But commercial companies involved in facilitating serious international crimes—or profiting from them—have rarely been held accountable by international courts.

June 7, 2019

A New Beginning

For a Better Future, Sudan Must Confront Its Past

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With Omar al-Bashir no longer in power, the temptation to move beyond his regime’s crimes is understandable. But unless Sudan grapples with its past, it risks trading one corrupt dictatorship for another.

May 10, 2019 | Ezzaddean El Safi

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Wolfgang Kaleck on the State of the Human Rights Movement

Wolfgang Kaleck

Kaleck is a leading German lawyer and human rights activist who has spent more than two decades involved in the global struggle to hold powerful people and governments accountable for abuses.

January 29, 2019

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