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The website of the ICC provides information on previous and currently pending cases before the World Court in The Hague. It is in the nature of things that the ICC only takes action once the crime has been committed and people have been murdered and displaced, deprived of their health and a self-determined life. Academics and human rights activists are investigating how we can draw conclusions for preventive action from individual cases of human rights violations.
The importance of testimonies from victims and survivors
The testimonies of victims and survivors are the sources that tell us what the precursors of violence, terror and systematic genocide are that people are subjected to almost everywhere in the world. Their stories provide the keys to the humane living conditions that are necessary to prevent systematic persecution and violence in the future.
Like all legal cases of prosecutions before criminal courts for violent crimes, those before the International Criminal Court are highly instructive in terms of the possibilities for preventing violence and upholding human rights. It is of the utmost importance to analyse the testimonies of victims and survivors and not to regard them merely as instruments of proof to expose the criminal actions of the accused.
When the current cases, or “current situations” as it is called on the Court’s website, are listed here before the ICC, this is therefore not done with the aim of re-examining the motives and motivations of the accused or defendants. While the end of impunity may have a deterrent effect on individuals, punishment alone does not prevent systematic crimes. Neither the level of the possible punishment nor the threat of it have a preventive effect. In other words, deterrence through education in the form of documenting crimes is not enough to prevent crimes and serious human rights violations in the future.
The testimonies of survivors of genocide and genocide also make it clear that it is not military intervention, but the improvement of environmental and social living conditions alone that can, if not completely prevent the escalation of violence and systematic state terror, at least reduce the danger of it in the long term.
The current situation before the ICC
– Chronologically by date of referral to the Court –
– Georgia
– Central African Republic (II) (ICC-01/14)
– Mali (ICC-01/12)
– Côte d’Ivoire (ICC-02/11)
– Libya (ICC-01/11)
> On the ICC website
– Kenya (ICC-01/09)
> On the ICC website
– Sudan (Darfur) (ICC-02/05)
>On the ICC website
– Central African Republic (ICC-01/05)
> On the ICC website
– Democratic Republic of the Congo (ICC-01/04)
> On the ICC website
– Uganda (ICC-02/04)