Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should support the court against efforts to undermine its global mandate. The court has been under extreme pressure since ICC judges ...

Israel and its top ally, the United States, are not members of the court. However, Palestine is, and judges ruled in 2021 that the court had jurisdiction over crimes committed on Palestinian ...

Oral arguments will be heard by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which will consider what obligations United Nations member states have under international law to protect the planet from ...

FILE - A lone demonstrator waves the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024. (AP ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are just less than 3km (1.9 miles) apart in The Hague, a city in the Netherlands.

The case, before the fifteen-member International Court of Justice, is about climate change. Do countries have a legal as well as a moral obligation to prevent a planetary disaster?

Israel's Gaza aid blockade contested in World Court hearings U.N. and Palestinian representatives at the International Court of Justice accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to ...

On September 25, 2024, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced that they had formally taken steps to call on Afghanistan to ...

The court’s newest member, Ukraine, formally joined in January, bringing the number of member states to 125. The United States, Russia, China and Israel are among nations that are not members.

What is the International Court of Justice and why is it weighing in on humanitarian ... can request advisory opinions from the court’s 15 judges. All 193 U.N. member states are members of the ...