‘ Neither a free State nor a free world can long endure without adequate safeguards for the rule of law ’ - A.N.R. Robinson, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, October 1990 Last week, we looked at the International Court of Justice , which works on disputes between countries . Any country can say ‘we think what they are doing over there is illegal’, and take the case to the ICJ. There are different treaties and international laws to protect us against harms by individual people , such as a specific political or military leader who has acted illegally, and disputes around these go to the International Criminal Court. So this week, I’m going to tell you about the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes individuals who might be responsible for international crimes like genocide or war crimes, and other crimes which are specified in treaties, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud and more. These kinds of crimes have historically been difficult to tackle, b...
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