I see the Int'l Criminal Court (ICC) might be about to start its first trial

[Egalitariat]

Does anybody know what laws the ICC prosecutes? Where are those laws codified? Which body is responsible for creating/amending those laws?

[rumpel]

1. Here is the site:

http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.html

and the laws are here at their new site:

This database contains more than 9000 documents related to the negotiation and drafting of the ICC Statute, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and the Elements of Crimes document. These documents were produced by States, NGOs, academic institutions, the United Nations and other international organisations between December 1989 and September 2002.

and many other documents

http://www.icc-cpi.int/legal_tools/LT1.html

[Egalitariat]

2. Perfect. Thanks!**

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[mod mom]

3. The US and the ICC:

The United States and the International Criminal Court


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Myths and Facts about the International Criminal Court
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Questions and Answers about the International Criminal Court and the United States
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The United States of America was one of only 7 nations (joining China, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Qatar and Israel) to vote against the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998.

The Bush administration's hostility to the ICC has increased dramatically in 2002. The crux of the U.S. concern relates to the prospect that the ICC may exercise its jurisdiction to conduct politically motivated investigations and prosecutions of U.S. military and political officials and personnel. The U.S. opposition to the ICC is in stark contrast to the strong support for the Court by most of America's closest allies.

In an unprecedented diplomatic maneuver on 6 May, the Bush administration effectively withdrew the U.S. signature on the treaty. At the time, the Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues Pierre-Richard Prosper stated that the administration was "not going to war" with the Court. This has proved false; the renunciation of the treaty has paved the way for a comprehensive U.S. campaign to undermine the ICC.

First, the Bush administration negotiated a Security Council resolution to provide an exemption for U.S. personnel operating in U.N. peacekeeping operations. The administration failed in May to obtain an exemption for peacekeepers in East Timor. In June the Bush administration vetoed an extension of the UN peacekeeping mission for Bosnia-Herzegovina unless the Security Council granted a complete exemption. Ultimately, the U.S. failed in its bid for an iron-clad exemption, although the Security Council approved a limited, one year exemption for U.S. personnel participating in UN peacekeeping missions or UN authorized operations. The Security Council has expressed its intention to renew this exemption on 30 June next year.

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http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm

[kentuck]

4. In hindsight, the people and the Congress should have raised red flag...

When Bush declared early on that Americans woud not be subject to the trials or charges of the World Court. We should have stopped him at that point. If we had, he might be in front of that Court today? Or he might have thought twice before invading another country on a whim..

[KharmaTrain]

5. And This Would Have Passed A GOOP Senate?

I remember when booshie told the ICC to pound sand. The airwaves were filled with callers praising this at the time as most of us didn't think a President would start an illegal war of aggression...no matter how Repugnican he was. While many of us here can say we knew this regime was hellbent to invade Iraq from Day One, in 2002, I doubt a majority of Americans felt that was going to happen. More the reason why the Joe Wilson trip later that year looms larger and larger as time goes by...and the lies that were known to a few at that time gets aired in a court of law now.

In 2002, in the wake of 9/11, many in this country felt we still were on the morally right side of things in this world and didn't want or need some "feriners" sticking their nose into our legal system. IRC, even Clinton was lukewarm to this court due to the way it could userp our own criminal laws. But now, with this renegade regime, I, for one, hope there's an investigation of this regime on the docket...or that someone will press a suit to get an investigation going. Sadly, our courts will not be able to handle the level of crimes and ciminality committed by this regime over the past 6 years.