On 14 December 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor (“OTP” or “Office”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) published the Report on Preliminary Examination Activities (“Report”). In this short reflection, I will discuss the situation in The Philippines which is very...

The crime of ‘ecocide’ has been discussed for almost 50 years and is of increasing relevance. Starting as scientific and biological debates during the Vietnam War, ecocide arguments became foremost political and then juridical. Recently in 2021, the ‘Stop Ecocide Foundation’ proposed to...

The ‘situation’ between Iraq and the UK had long been under the scrutiny of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As early as 2004, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) received communications from individuals and NGO’s – as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch –, regarding the...