Journalist's guide to the International Criminal Court

Applicable Law Part 2 concerns crimes within the Court's Part 4: Composition and Administration of jurisdiction, the role of the Security the Court Council, the admissibility of cases, and the Part 4 details the structure of the Court applicable law for cases coming before the and the qualification and independence Court. [...] Under the terms of the Before the Rome Statute of the ICC treaty, the statute officially entered into could take effect, the governments of at force on the first day of the month after least 60 countries had to ratify it. [...] The suspect and the states and authorizes the U. S. to use force to concerned also have the right to chal- liberate persons detained on behalf of lenge the jurisdiction of the court or the court. [...] For a section-by- section analysis of the final version of • On the territory of any country the Act, go to the website of the CICC that ratified the treaty . [...] Article 5 lists the crimes that will be with- in the jurisdiction of the Court: genocide, The exact relationship between the ICC crimes against humanity, war crimes, and and the UN will be detailed in a special the crime of aggression.