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The Review Conference of the Rome \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Human Rights Now (HRN), an international human \n \n 1. \n One of the biggest points of contention at the \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, we have seen situations where acts of \n \n 2.\u00a0 <\/span>Conditions for the exercise of \n HRN supports the definitions of the crime of The points of contention raised regarding the \n HRN does not support the position that the ICC \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Security Council is the UN body to take \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Article 13 of the Rome Statue stipulates that \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is appropriate to allow the Prosecutor to \n \n 3. \n –\u00a0 <\/span>the amendments regarding the crime of \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n – the amendments \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HRN also requests all State Parties to \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will convene in Kampala, Uganda from May 31 to June 11, 2010. The Conference is the first meeting of ICC state parties to consider amendments to the Rome Statue since the Statue entered into force in 2002. \u00a0 Human Rights Now (HRN), an international human rights NGO based in Tokyo, requests all the governments to take advantage of this occasion and work harder on the reinforcement of the ICC and the realization of the rule of law in the world. 1. Jurisdiction over the crime of aggression should be granted to the ICC through the amendments to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[157,16,5],"countries":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statement","tag-accountability-for-gross-human-rights-violations","tag-international-transitional-justice","tag-united-nations"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStatute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will convene in Kampala,
\nUganda from May 31 to June 11, 2010. The Conference is the first meeting of ICC
\nstate parties to consider amendments to the Rome Statue since the Statue
\nentered into force in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nrights NGO based in Tokyo, requests all the governments to take advantage of
\nthis occasion and work harder on the reinforcement of the ICC and the
\nrealization of the rule of law in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJurisdiction over the crime of aggression should be granted to the ICC through
\nthe amendments to the Rome Statute.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nConference is the amendment\u00a0of the Rome Statute, regarding the crime of
\naggression. <\/span><\/p>\n
\naggression were committed and innocent civilians were killed since the Statute
\ntook effect in 2002. It is time to adopt amendments to the Statute and enable
\nthe ICC to exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. It is of
\ndecisive importance in establishing a solid consensus on the crime of
\naggression as one of the most serious crimes in international law in order to
\nprevent further aggressions, and implementing a purpose of the Charter of the
\nUnited Nations which outlaws the use of force in principle.<\/span><\/p>\n
\njurisdiction over the crime of aggression<\/span><\/p>\n
\naggression proposed by the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression.
\nThis is in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution 3314 (1974). The
\nconditions under which the ICC shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to the
\ncrime are still largely in dispute among the States Parties.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/s><\/p>\n
\nconditions for the exercise of the jurisdiction over the crime of aggression
\nare whether the ICC Prosecutor can initiate an investigation when the Security
\nCouncil has not made a determination that an act of aggression, as well as what
\nthe conditions to begin its investigation are, if the Prosecutor is able to do
\nso. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nProsecutor has no authority to initiate its investigation, when the Security
\nCouncil has not determined that there has been an act of aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nresponsible action for peace and security, and the Council also bears the
\nprimary responsibility to determine an act of aggression. However, the Council
\nshould not have exclusive authority on making determinations on crimes of
\naggression. If we look at the Council’s history, there have been a number of
\ncases where the Security Council has failed to take responsibility for the
\nillegal use of force. Granting exclusive authority to the Council involves the
\nrisk of the exercise of veto by its permanent members not to determine an
\nexplicit act of aggression. If the ICC is denied its jurisdiction over such
\ncases, the independence of the Court will be gravely undermined. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe exercise of jurisdiction by the ICC may be triggered by the Security
\nCouncil, a State Party, or the Prosecutor acting proprio motu<\/i> and, in the third case, a decision of the Prosecutor
\nto conduct an investigation proprio muto<\/i>
\nmust be approved by the Pre-Trial Division of the ICC.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nexercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression on the same conditions
\nas<\/span> other crimes
\nreferred in the Statute,<\/span> since there is no reasonable
\njustification for setting stricter conditions only on the crime of aggression.
\nIn the case of the State Party referral, a referral by a victim state should
\nsuffice to satisfy the conditions to authorize the Court to exercise its
\njurisdiction.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHRN requests all State Parties of the ICC to support:<\/span><\/p>\n
\naggression; and<\/span><\/p>\n
\nwhich do not require stricter conditions to exercise jurisdiction of the
\nICC,\u00a0 <\/span>including the Security
\nCouncil resolutions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ncontribute to the establishment of the rule of law in the world through the
\namendments.<\/span><\/p>\n