International Criminal Court faces “existential threat from the United States” - ICC President

Tomoko Akane spoke before the Human Rights Subcommittee and the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament “to discuss recent developments in the architecture of international criminal justice in the context of a changing geopolitical landscape, including the US President's decree on the imposition of sanctions against the ICC from 6 February 2025 (talk about the sanctions imposed by the United States of America against persons involved …

No easy road to ICC justice for Kenya’s victims of abduction and extrajudicial killing

Although the Kenyan government’s inaction on the rising cases of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, enforced abductions, and illegal detentions has angered many citizens and civil society organisations, humanitarian justice experts have expressed scepticism over their proposal to involve the International Criminal Court (ICC). Citing Kenya’s obligations under international law to protect its citizens from enforced disappearances and to p…

(EFE).- The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Tomoko Akane, warned this Wednesday that the court “needs the support of the European Union to survive in the coming years,” following sanctions imposed by the Donald Trump administration, and assured that these measures already affect its work and create “impredictability” among [...] The ICC entry calls for support from the EU to “survive in the coming years” before Trump’s sanct…

DOBLE LLAVE – The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Tomoko Akane, warned this Wednesday that the court “needs the support of the European Union to survive in the coming years,” following sanctions imposed by the Donald Trump administration, and assured that these measures already affect its work and create “impredictability” among the staff. In an intervention before the European Parliament’s Human Rights Commission, Akane str…

International Criminal Court faces “existential threat from the United States” - ICC President

ICC President, Judge Tomoko Akane, delivered a stark warning to the European Parliament this morning.  In a hearing today before a joint session of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Committee on Legal Affairs, the President of the International Criminal Court explained the severe impact of Donald Trump’s sanctions on the daily functioning of the court, and called on the European Union to intervene to protect the cour…