International Criminal Court (ICC)

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• Governed by an international treaty called 'The Rome Statute', the ICC is the world’s first permanent international criminal court

• India is not a party to Rome Statute along with US and China.

• no retroactive jurisdiction

• The Hague, the Netherlands

• The crime of Genocide

• Crimes against Humanity

• War crimes

• Crime of Aggression

• ICC does not have its own police force or enforcement body;

• ICC cannot impose a death sentence

• no retrospective jurisdiction

• ICC is not part of the United Nations system

• The Rome Statute', the ICC is the world’s first permanent international criminal court.