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The International Criminal Court has issued its long-awaited arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a top Israeli official related to the ongoing war in Gaza. Warrants ...

The adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 17 July 1998, which came into force on 1 July 2002, represented a historic step in the fight against impunity for ...

At the end of the bloodiest century in human history, the international community adopted a treaty creating the world's first independent and permanent International Criminal Court. That court is ...