The Overall Function of International Criminal Law: Striking the Right Balance between the Rechtsgut and the Harm Principles - A Second Contribution Towards a Consistent Theory of ICL

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Ambos
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Consistent Theory ◽  
The Right

The Contestation of Value-Based Norms: Confirmation or Erosion of International Law?

2019 ◽  
pp. 311-334
Author(s):  
Tiyanjana Maluwa
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Normative Powers

The chapter discusses the concepts of shared values and value-based norms. It examines two areas of international law that provide illustrative examples of contestation of value-based norms: the fight against impunity under international criminal law and the debates about the responsibility to protect. It argues that the African Union’s (AU) difference of view with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the indictment of Omar Al-Bashir is not a rejection of the non-impunity norm, but of the context and sequencing of its application. As regards the right of intervention codified in the Constitutive Act of the AU, Africans states responded to the failure of the Security Council to invoke its existing normative powers in the Rwanda situation by establishing a treaty-based norm of intervention, the first time that a regional international instrument had ever done so. Thus, in both cases one cannot speak of a decline of international law.

scholarly journals SEXUAL SLAVERY OF CHILDREN AS A WAR CRIME IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1171-1176
Author(s):  
N. Indriati ◽  
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Wismaningsih a ◽  
Danial b ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Sexual Slavery ◽  
The Right

Child is a creature from God Almighty who needs to be protected by self-esteem and his dignity and is guaranteed for the right of his life to grow and develop according to his natural fate. Any form of treatment that interferes and impairs the fundamental rights in various forms of unauthorized utilization and exploitation must be discontinued without exception.This is a normative juridical research. The method of the research is statute approaches, that is analyzing sexual slavery in children as war crime, because many cases of completion can be done through international criminal court.The results showed that child is vulnerable to any crime of its form at his ag, and one of the war crimes is child sexual slavery, which are not a few children became victims. In international criminal law is known the term of individual responsibility, which means that the perpetrators of criminals either commander or soldier can be tried in the International Criminal Court established by Rome Statuteof 1998.

Part III The Right to Justice, C Restrictions on Rules of Law Justified By Action to Combat Impunity, Principle 24 Restrictions and Other Measures Relating to Amnesty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siatitsa Ilia Maria ◽  
Wierda Marieke
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Transitions To Democracy ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The Right

Principle 24 deals with restrictions and other measures relating to amnesty. It requires that no amnesty should take precedence over the obligation of states to prosecute, try, and punish the perpetrators of serious crimes under international law. Through the impunity principles, the obligation to prosecute becomes intertwined with the prohibition of amnesties. An amnesty has long been considered a valuable tool to end conflicts or to ease transitions to democracy. In reality, however, state practice on amnesties remains inconsistent and the debate on amnesties continues to persist. After providing a contextual and historical background on Principle 24, this chapter discusses its theoretical framework, focusing on issues arising from the obligation to prosecute, the right to remedy, amnesties in international criminal law, and the right to refuse amnesty. It also examines how amnesties are used by states to end armed conflicts.

Monetary Compensation as a Remedy for Fair Trial Violations under International Criminal Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahli Shereshevsky
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Monetary Compensation ◽  
Effective Remedy ◽  
The Right

When international criminal courts face violations of the right to a fair trial, they encounter a dilemma: if they provide a significant remedy, such as a stay of proceedings, the remedy inevitably undermines the ability to punish the perpetrators of international crimes; on the other hand, if they grant a minimal remedy or no remedy at all, the right to a fair trial is undermined. This dilemma has led to the adoption of an interest-balancing approach to remedies. Under this approach, sentence reduction plays a prominent role in remedying fair trial violations that do not undermine the court’s ability to accurately determine the accused’s guilt. This Article argues that sentence reduction is an inadequate remedy, since it inevitably either harms the goals of international criminal sentencing or does not provide an effective remedy for violations of the right to a fair trial. Instead, monetary compensation should be the remedy for such violations. By granting monetary compensation, the court creates a separation between the punishment and the remedy and thus can usually provide an effective remedy for the accused without harming the main goals of international criminal justice.

scholarly journals La protección en la jurisdicción penal internacional del derecho a la cultura: los crímenes internacionales de destrucción del patrimonio cultural | The protection under international criminal jurisdiction of the right to culture: internacional crimes regarding destruction of cultural heritage

2019 ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
María Torres Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
International Context ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
The Right

Resumen: El presente artículo pretender dar una visión global de la protección del derecho a la cultura a través del derecho internacional penal y en concreto, a través de la tipificación de los crímenes de destrucción del patrimonio cultural. La persecución de tales delitos internacionales ha seguido la senda de otros crímenes en derecho internacional penal, englobándose en un primer momento entre los crímenes de guerra para de forma posterior superar dicha tipificación para poder ser tratado como crímenes de lesa humanidad de persecución e incluso, como indicios de una conducta genocida. En el presente contexto internacional, la denegación del derecho a la cultura como método de guerra es innegable en los conflictos protagonizados por los nuevos actores internacionales por lo que la solución final del derecho internacional penal debe progresar para erigirse en un método de protección privilegiado. Abstract:  The present article intends to give a global vision of the protection of the right to culture through international criminal law and in particular, through the tipification of crimes of destruction of cultural heritage. The prosecution of such international crimes has followed the path of other crimes in international criminal law, initially included in the type of war crimes and later overcoming such tipification in order to be treated as a crime against humanity of persecution and even, as indications of a genocidal behavior. In the present international context, the denial of the right to culture as a method of warfare is undeniable in conflicts involving new international actors, so the final solution of international criminal law must progress to become a privileged method of protection.

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