عنوان

Assessing the African Union Concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

شماره

LA108104

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Assessing the African Union Concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Max du Plessis, Charles C. Jalloh, Dapo Akande, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill | Nijhoff

متن يادداشت

This article assesses the African Union's (AU) concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It seeks to articulate a clearer picture of the law and politics of deferrals within the context of the AU's repeated calls to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC, or the Council) to invoke Article 16 to suspend the processes initiated by the ICC against President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan. The Council's failure to accede to the AU request led African States to formally withhold cooperation from the ICC in respect to the arrest and surrender of the Sudanese leader. Given the AU's continued concerns, and the current impasse, fundamental questions have arisen about the Council's authority to exercise, or not exercise, its deferral power. This culminated into a November 2009 African proposal for an amendment to the Rome Statute to empower the UN General Assembly to act should the UNSC fail to act on a deferral request after six months. Although ICC States Parties have so far shown limited public support for the AU's proposed amendment to the deferral provision, this article examines its merits because a failure to engage the "Article 16 problem" could impact international accountability efforts in the Sudan, and further damage the ICC's credibility in Africa. This unresolved issue also has wider significance given that the matters underlying the tension ‐ how ICC prosecutions may be reconciled with peacemaking initiatives and the role and power of the Council in ICC business ‐ will likely arise in future situations from around the world. This article assesses the African Union's (AU) concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It seeks to articulate a clearer picture of the law and politics of deferrals within the context of the AU's repeated calls to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC, or the Council) to invoke Article 16 to suspend the processes initiated by the ICC against President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan. The Council's failure to accede to the AU request led African States to formally withhold cooperation from the ICC in respect to the arrest and surrender of the Sudanese leader. Given the AU's continued concerns, and the current impasse, fundamental questions have arisen about the Council's authority to exercise, or not exercise, its deferral power. This culminated into a November 2009 African proposal for an amendment to the Rome Statute to empower the UN General Assembly to act should the UNSC fail to act on a deferral request after six months. Although ICC States Parties have so far shown limited public support for the AU's proposed amendment to the deferral provision, this article examines its merits because a failure to engage the "Article 16 problem" could impact international accountability efforts in the Sudan, and further damage the ICC's credibility in Africa. This unresolved issue also has wider significance given that the matters underlying the tension ‐ how ICC prosecutions may be reconciled with peacemaking initiatives and the role and power of the Council in ICC business ‐ will likely arise in future situations from around the world.

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

5-50

عنوان

African Journal of Legal Studies

شماره جلد

4/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1708-7384

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Union (AU)

اصطلاح موضوعی

Article 16 Rome Statute

اصطلاح موضوعی

Article 53 Rome Statute

اصطلاح موضوعی

AU concerns about ICC

اصطلاح موضوعی

AU proposal to amend Art. 16

اصطلاح موضوعی

International Criminal Court (ICC)

اصطلاح موضوعی

peace versus justice in Sudan

اصطلاح موضوعی

President Omar Al Bashir

اصطلاح موضوعی

Security Council power to defer ICC situations and investigations

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Charles C. Jalloh

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dapo Akande

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Max du Plessis

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/170873811X563947

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y