Deferral Request News Today

See how the government uses its muscle to delay justice? By the time this goes to trial – if it goes to trial, the big fish – Rodrigo Duterte may be dead. In which case there will be no trial – because the ICC requires the defendant’s presence. 

California Civil Rights Department CRD announced potential extensions, as the expanded pay data reporting obligations in California’s new pay transparency law, particularly the requirement to file Labor Contractor Employee Report, as it has caused confusion among employers

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II’s authorization to resume the investigation into the Afghanistan situation comes amid a disagreement with the Office of the Prosecutor regarding the temporal scope of the investigation and the alleged incidents it covers.

The Office of the Prosecutor’s analysis of the merits of Afghanistan’s 2020 request to defer the ICC’s investigation not only underscores its own views of the law applicable to deferral requests but also sheds light on how the court views the de facto authorities as they relate to ICC proceedings.

Venezuelan government Saturday rejected a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume an investigation into alleged human rights violations by the countrys official...

Families of people killed in the Duterte administration's war on drugs have asked the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor to resume its investigation in a supplemental communication filed on Tuesday.

The Philippine government should provide information on its drug war investigations to support its request for a suspension of the International Criminal Court’s probe, the court’s prosecutor said Tuesday. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said his office would ask the country to provide details on the proceedings it had cited when it sought deferral of the […]

Version française à suivre |Tagalog version to follow Press release: 23.11.2021 ICC Prosecutor, Mr Karim A.A. Khan QC, notifies Pre-Trial Chamber I of a request from the Republic of the Philippines to defer his investigation under article 18(2) of the Rome Statute On 18 November 2021, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”), Mr Karim A.A. Khan QC, informed

On 18 November 2021, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”), Mr Karim A.A. Khan QC, informed ICC Pre-Trial Chamber

“Nothing could be further from the truth than claiming that domestic institutions and mechanisms of accountability in the country are ‘fully functional.’"