The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague,Netherlands.
Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person regardless of where the alleged crime was committed,and regardless of the accused's nationality,country of residence,or any other relation to the prosecuting entity. Crimes prosecuted under universal jurisdiction are considered crimes against all,too serious to tolerate jurisdictional arbitrage. The concept of universal jurisdiction is therefore closely linked to the idea that some international norms are erga omnes,or owed to the entire world community,as well as to the concept of jus cogens –that certain international law obligations are binding on all states.
International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration. The core crimes under international law are genocide,war crimes,crimes against humanity,and the crime of aggression.
Germain Katanga,also known as Simba,is a former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri (FRPI),an armed group in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On 17 October 2007,the Congolese authorities surrendered him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to stand trial on six counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity. The charges include murder,sexual slavery,rape,destruction of property,pillaging,willful killing,and directing crimes against civilians.
Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko is a Ugandan judge and legal scholar. He was a member of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2008 to 2012,and currently serves as a judge on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Kimberly Prost is a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court. She was elected to a nine-year term on December 8,2017 and assumed full-time duty on March 9,2018.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1329,adopted unanimously on 30 November 2000,after recalling resolutions 827 (1993) and 955 (1994),the Council enlarged the appeals chambers at both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),proposed the election of two additional judges at the ICTR and established a pool of ad litem judges at the ICTY.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1350,adopted unanimously on 27 April 2001,after recalling resolutions 808 (1993),827 (1993),1166 (1998) and 1329 (2000),the Council forwarded a list of nominees for permanent judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the General Assembly for consideration.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1931,adopted unanimously on June 29,2010,after recalling resolutions 827 (1993),1581 (2005),1597 (2005),1613 (2005),1629 (2005),1660 (2006),1668 (2006),1800 (2008),1837 (2008),1849 (2008),1877 (2009),1900 (2009) and 1915 (2010),the Council noted that the 2010 target for the completion of trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) could not be met,and therefore extended the terms of 23 judges at the ICTY.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1581,adopted unanimously on 18 January 2005,after recalling resolutions 1503 (2003) and 1534 (2004),the Council approved the extension of the terms of office of seven short-term judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in order to allow them to finish adjudicating the cases on which they had been working. It was the first Security Council resolution adopted in 2005.
United Nations Security Council resolution1629,adopted unanimously on 30 September 2005,after considering the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),the Council decided that Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert could participate in the Mile Mrkšićcase,before her elected term as permanent judge of the Tribunal had begun.
Árpád Prandler was a Hungarian jurist who served as an Ad Litem Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia based in The Hague,Netherlands between 2006 and 2013.
The International Criminal Court investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the Second Congo War and its aftermath,including the Ituri and Kivu conflicts. The war started in 1998 and despite a peace agreement between combatants in 2003,conflict continued in the eastern parts of the country for several years. In April 2004 the government of the DRC formally referred the situation in the Congo to the International Criminal Court,and in June 2004,prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo,formally opened an investigation. To date,arrest warrants have been issued for:
Flavia Lattanzi is an Italian lawyer specialized in international law who is ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 2007 and professor at the Roma Tre University. Between 2003 and 2007,she served as ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
The United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) is a UN-administered jail. It is part of the Hague Penitentiary Institution's Scheveningen location,more popularly known as Scheveningen Prison,in The Hague,Netherlands. The UNDU was established in 1993 as part of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and currently houses detainees whose cases have been taken over by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).
Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua is a Congolese lawyer who is currently a judge of the International Criminal Court. He was previously a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Sweden–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between Sweden and now split-up Yugoslavia. During the Cold War both Sweden and Yugoslavia refused to formally join either NATO or the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Both countries nevertheless had developed relations with NATO. Sweden preferred formal military neutrality in order to strengthen the neutrality claim of Finland,while post-1948 Tito-Stalin split Yugoslavia indirectly associated itself with NATO via the Balkan Pact during the Informbiro period.
Prisca Matimba Nyambe,SC is a Zambian judge who also sits on international tribunals. She is known for dissenting from the majority decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) judgements which convicted Ratko Mladićand Zdravko Tolimir of war crimes.
Maureen Harding Clark is an Irish jurist and judge. She has been a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),the International Criminal Court (ICC),the High Court of Ireland and is a member of the Supreme Court of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia. She was one of the few women criminal lawyers and has extensive experience both as a criminal lawyer and as a state prosecutor in Ireland.
