Screen LibrarySaving the international justice regime : beyond backlash against international courts /
"In 2016, Burundi, The Gambia and South Africa all made moves to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). They were not alone. Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and a number of other African Union (AU) member states sought to orchestrate a mass withdrawal from the ICC. This withdrawal was prec...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"In 2016, Burundi, The Gambia and South Africa all made moves to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). They were not alone. Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and a number of other African Union (AU) member states sought to orchestrate a mass withdrawal from the ICC. This withdrawal was precipitated by the ICC's casework in Africa, including indictments against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto, as well as former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. While mass withdrawal never came to pass, the damage that these sustained rhetorical and political attacks caused continues to reverberate around the international criminal justice sphere. Indeed, efforts to undermine and assail the ICC are not unique to African Union member states. In 2019, the ICC inched closer to opening a case against the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. President Duterte had some choice words to express his discontent with international justice: "I will never, never, never answer any question coming from you. It's bullshit to me. I am only responsible to the Filipino[s]. Filipinos will judge." The Philippines went on to become only the second country ever to withdraw from the ICC."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 232 pages : forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009055642 100905564X 9781316511411 1316511413 9781009052610 1009052616 |
| Index Number: | KZ7230 |
| CLC: | D997.9-05 |
| Call Number: | D997.9-05/H651 |
| Contents: | Progress and pushback in the judicialization of human rights -- Backlash in theoretical context -- The politics of withdrawal -- Replacing the international justice regime -- Bureaucrats, budgets and backlash : death by a thousand paper cuts -- Doctrinal challenges : diluting the domestic impacts of international adjudication -- How to save the international justice regime. |