ICC Basics
This court prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, amd crimes against humanity
What is the International Criminal Court?
What does UNSC stand for?
What is the United Nations Security Council
What does ICC stand for?
What is International Criminal Court
What does AU stand for?
What is the African Union
What percentage of ICC investigations focused on African countries?
What is 80-90%
This agreement established the ICC in 1998
What is the Rome Statute?
The five permanent members hold this special decision-making privilege.
What is Veto
What three major powers did we name as not part of the ICC?
What are the United States, Russia, and China
A key goal of regional justice movements is to increase this within legal systems.
What is regional autonomy
How many member states does the ICC have?
What is 125
The ICC is located in this European city
What is The Hague
The UNSC has five permanent members. Who are they?
What are the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, and France
African states lack judicial capacity. What is the amount of case backlogs some countries have in domestic courts?
What are tens of thousands
This is a major risk if the regional courts lack resources or enforcement power.
What are delayed/avoided prosecutions
What percentage of ICC member states are from Africa?
This principle means the ICC only acts when international courts cannot or will not prosecute
What is complementarity
This power allows the UNSC to pause or block ICC investigations
What is deferral
The ICC often faces criticism for this major issue, meaning it prosecutes some cases but ignores others.
What is selective justice
The AU aligns itself with Global South legal reformers to seek less of this type of justice architecture
What is Eurocentric
African states spend about how much of their GDP on judicial systems
What is 1-2%
This type of crime includes widespread or systemic attacks against civilians
What are crimes against humanity?
Who is harmed the most from the UNSC having power in the ICC?
What are Global South countries
What are atrocity crimes
If the AU refuses cooperation with the ICC, who is most likely to benefit from reduced accountability?
Who are the African Political Elites
What are the only two cases to have been referred by the UNSC?
Darfur and Libya