Suchergebnisse

The idea of international criminal law -- International law preliminaries -- International criminal tribunals: from Nuremberg to the Hague and and beyond -- Comparative criminal procedure and sentencing -- Jurisdiction -- Immunities -- U.S. constitutional rights in a transnational context -- Obtaining evidence abroad -- International extradition and its alternatives -- Organized crime -- Trafficking in persons, drugs, arms and antiquities -- Money laundering -- Corruption -- Terrorism -- The international criminal court -- Modes of participation and mens rea -- Defenses to international criminal prosecutions -- Crimes against humanity -- Genocide -- War crimes and the crime of aggression -- Torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment -- Sexual violence -- Alternatives to prosecution after atrocity: a survey of other transitional justice mechanisms

Whilst the African continent has been beset with many of the modern- day conflicts, and with them violations of international humanitarian law, through the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court, African states have demonstrated their intent to hold accountable the perpetrators of the gravest international crimes. By the end of 2005, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda celebrated its eleventh year, the Special Court for Sierra Leone will have completed its fourth year and the International Criminal Court will be more than three and a half years old. As the present review of their activities shows, the delivery of justice through international jurisdictions is a complex and often time-consuming process.

The need for an international criminal jurisdiction was recognized by the General Assembly of the United tjations in a resolution adopted in 1948, in which it was stated in the preamble thalt "in the course of development of the international community, there will be an increasing need of an international judicial organ for the trial of certain crimes under international law."