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Mass Rape issue Professor MacKinnon raises an interesting point when she argues that by being sensitive to cultural stigmas attached to victims of rape and offering an alternative to direct victim testimony, one...	13 years 33 weeks
prevention issue Positive Complementarity: Prospects and Limits Argument In order to maximize its effectiveness in the prevention of crimes, the ICC...	14 years 32 weeks
oversight issue The IOM may not be needed for financial supervision or administrative management of the ICC, but it would be significantly beneficial to the Court for...	15 years 2 weeks
darfur issue The AU decision to not arrest or surrender Al Bashir in accordance with an ICC order does not override or suspend existing obligations of ICC States Parties...	15 years 16 weeks
gaza issue Certainly, under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, the Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu. However, what might be problematic is Professor Bassiouni’s assertion that even if the PLO is...	15 years 33 weeks
gaza issue I believe that the risk of a decision being “too politically charged” should not be a deterrent to tackling the issue of jurisdiction head on and reaching the correct conclusion. There seems to be...	15 years 38 weeks

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