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International Criminal Court (cont.)
like-minded caucus 15–16
NGOs 15
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) 16
procedure 17–18
South African Development
Community (SADC) 16
entry into force (ICC 126) (1 July 2002) 19,
20, 191–2
evolution, scope for 49–50, 93, 98–9
Hague Conventions (1899/1907),
codification 3
human rights law, effect 46
ICTY/ICTR jurisprudence and 12–13
ratification: see ratification, approval or
accession (ICC 125(2))
reservations: see reservations
Review Conference: see Review Conference
(ICC 123)
signature: see signature (ICC 125)
treaty status 187
withdrawal (ICC 127) 192
International Criminal Court (ICC), Statute
(1998), Articles
preamble 26, 85, 94, 163, 171
1 (establishment and jurisdiction of
Court) 26, 85
2 (relationship with UN) 19, 176
3(1) (seat of the Court) 176
3(2) (headquarters agreement) 176
5 (crimes within the jurisdiction of the
Court) 26, 31
5(1)(d) (aggression) 31–34
5(2) (consistency with relevant provisions of
UN Charter) 31, 32–4
6 (genocide) 41: see also genocide
7 (crimes against humanity) 43–51
7(1), chapeau 44–5, 108, 423
7(1)(b) (extermination) 50
7(1)(d) (deportation or forcible transfer)
46
7(1)(f) (torture) 46
7(1)(g) (gender crimes) 46–8
7(1)(h) (persecution) 48–9
7(1)(j) (apartheid) 46
7(1)(k) (other inhumane acts) 49–50
7(2)(a) (‘attack directed against civilian
population’) 45–6, 50
7(2)(b) (extermination) 50
7(2)(c) (enslavement) 50
7(2)(d) (deportation or forcible transfer)
50
7(2)(e) (torture) 50–1
7(3) (gender) 51
8 (war crimes) 51–66
8(1) (plan, policy or large-scale
commission) 30
8(2)(a) (grave breaches) 57–60
8(2)(b) (other serious violations of the laws
and customs of war) 60–4, 423
8(2)(b)(ii) (attacks against civilian
objectives) 425
8(2)(b)(iii) (attacks on humanitarian
assistance or peacekeeping
mission) 34–5, 60–1
8(2)(b)(iv) (environmental
damage/‘concrete and overall
advantage’) 60–1, 423, 424, 425
8(2)(b)(v) (attacks against undefended
objectives) 425
8(2)(b)(vii) (improper use of flag) 34–5
8(2)(b)(viii) (transfer of population) 61
8(2)(b)(xvii) (poison or poisoned
weapons) 424
8(2)(b)(xviii) (asphyxiating gases) 424
8(2)(b)(xx) (employment of weapons
included in annex to Statute) 31
8(2)(b)(xxiii) (human shields) 424
8(2)(c) (Geneva Convention common
Article 3 violations) 64–5
8(2)(d) (internal disturbances) 64–5
8(2)(e) (other serious violations) 64–6
8(2)(e)(iii) (attacks on humanitarian
assistance or peacekeeping
mission) 34–5
8(2)(e)(vi) (sexual violence) 65–6
8(2)(e)(vii) (child conscription) 65–6
8(2)(f) (internal disturbances) 66
9 (Elements of Crimes): see Elements of
Crimes
10 (relationship with customary law) 28
11(1) (jurisdiction ratione temporis) 19,
69–70, 424
11(2) (States acceding after entry into
force) 69–70
12 (jurisdiction: preconditions) 75–85
12(2)(a) (territorial jurisdiction) 78–9
12(2)(b) (personal jurisdiction) 80–2
12(3) (ad hoc declaration by State not party
to Statute) 69–70, 71–2, 77, 78, 80–2
13 (referral to Court) 119–20
13(a) (State party referral) 122, 123–4
13(b) (Security Council Chapter VII
reference) 70, 123–4
15(1) (Prosecutor; proprio motu powers) 16,
120, 121
15(2) (sources of information) 121
15(3) (submission to Pre-Trial Chamber
including victim representations) 121,
172
15(4) (authorisation of investigation) 121
15(5) (resubmission of request to
investigate) 121
15(6) (decision not to proceed) 121, 123–4
16 (deferral at request of Security
Council) 82–5