WASHINGTON, DC -- The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the nation's Darfur region during the past five years. The...

(This is the sixth in a series of papers analyzing the global and foreign policy views of the “presumptive presidential nominees” and how each candidate may govern as our nation’s next president.) While most people focus on President Bush’s foreign policy after September 11, 2001, doing so doesn’t illustrate the entire picture. Before 9/11, President Bush focused on modernizing the mil...

The Chautauqua Declaration Last week an unprecedented gathering of international war crimes prosecutors met with little fanfare (and even less media coverage) in Chautauqua, New York. These nine men sounded an international clarion call to end impunity by perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in drafting, signing and releasing...

I. INTRODUCTION When President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush greeted Mexican President Vicente Fox and his wife Martha Sahagun de Fox at the administration's first State Dinner at the White House on Sept. 5, 2001, the intent of the administration to prioritize U.S.-Latin America relations seemed both strong and clear. Indeed, the newly elected President Bush was very focused on U.S.-Mexico ...

The International Criminal Court ruled Monday that Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, charged with recruiting child soldiers as young as 10 and sending them into battle, will be the first defendant to face trial at the newly established court. At a public hearing in The Hague, presiding Judge Claude Jorda announced that evidence presented by prosecutors was sufficient to "establish st...

The Politico Nearly two-and-a-half years ago, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the Government of Sudan was responsible for committing genocide in Darfur. Powell's statement represented the first time in our nation's history that a senior government official had labeled the systematic killing of innocent people genocide. In 1994, the Clinton administration did a dance...

For the past four years, the Bush Administration has systematically set out to exempt the United States from the purview of the International Criminal Court. Using bullying tactics, it has often gotten its way. But at a cost. President Bush's disdain for the International Criminal Court has been clear all along. His Administration did everything in its power to sabotage its creation. ...

March 30, 2007 – After years of targeted advocacy by civil society groups inside and outside of the country, the Parliament of Yemen ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC, paving the way for this Arab country to be the newest member of the Court. Amal Basha, Middle East and North Africa Coordinator for the Coalition for the ICC (CICC), praised the ratification and said, “ratification of t...

February 27, 2007 Washington, D.C. – Citizens for Global Solutions, a leading U.S.-based advocacy group for a strong and effective International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the ICC’s identification of two perpetrators in the on-going Darfur atrocities. In his announcement from The Hague today, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo requested a summons to appear for Ahmad Muhammad...

The Assembly of State Parties (ASP), the legislative body that oversees the mandate and progress of the ICC, will come together for its fifth annual meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands from November 23, 2006 – December 1, 2006. Comprised of a representative from each country that is a member to the Court, the ASP meets regularly to decide key issues such as the Court’s budget and...