ABSTRACT

The establishment of the International Criminal Court (‘the Court’) represents a major triumph of concerted international efforts to combat impunity. The Court has already initiated four investigations, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Uganda, the Central African Republic, and Darfur, and is analysing several situations including Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Afghanistan. The first trial of the Court, Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, began on 26 January 2009. The second trial, Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, is scheduled to being on the September 2009.