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Mass Rape issue In using victims as witnesses to prove rape, the ICC obviously faces ethical issues of making victims relive their trauma or of putting victims in danger of stigma. However, even apart from these...	13 years 32 weeks
Mass Rape issue Differences in the prosecution of rape in the ICC and domestic contexts Abstract: Prosecution of rape cases in the...	13 years 48 weeks
reparations issue Reparations in the Democratic Republic of Congo I. Abstract The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...	13 years 50 weeks
reparations issue Argument: In seeking to achieve rehabilitative justice, the ICC should implement reparative schemes through the Victim’s Trust Fund (...	14 years 15 weeks
libya issue The controversy of where Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will be tried could be critical in developing the ICC’s admissibility policy. In my opinion, the ICC...	14 years 27 weeks
prevention issue Argument The ICC’s overall effectiveness would be improved if it undertook a clear rule delineating when a state is “unwilling or unable...	14 years 32 weeks

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