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On July 17, 1998, the United Nations adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The establishment of this court raises serious questions concerning governmental control of citizens.

Mom seeks ruling police responsible for murders

A Colorado woman victimized by domestic violence wants a ruling from an international court that will hold police responsible for the murders of her three daughters by her estranged husband.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 9, 2007

International court seeks to block death penalty in Texas

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 8, 2007

Justice Breyer: 'Not all our decisions are right'

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says not all rulings from America's highest court are correct, admitting judges don't have "some great special insight," and he defends the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States.

WorldNetDaily, August 11, 2005

O'Connor praises international law

Judges would be negligent if they disregarded the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, asserted Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a speech today at Georgetown Law School.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 27, 2004

U.S. Violated Mexicans' Rights

The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row and ordered their cases be reviewed.

The United Nations' highest judiciary, also known as the world court, was considering a suit filed by Mexico claiming 52 convicted murderers weren't given their right to assistance from their government.

Source: MyWay (online), March 31, 2004

U.S. safe from global court – for now

American peacekeepers will remain – for the time being, anyway – outside the jurisdiction of a controversial United Nations-sponsored global war-crimes tribunal, though the U.N. decision today further strained relations between the United States and European allies.

The Security Council voted 12-0 to approve a U.S.-backed proposal to extend for another year an agreement exempting U.S. military and civilian peacekeeping forces from being tried by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

Source: WorldNetDaily, June 12, 2003

Global court threatens Blair, Bush?

The world's first global court has opened for business at The Hague, as the fanfare for the christening of the International Criminal Court featured a largely unnoticed warning United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan fired at Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush.

Source:WorldNetDaily, March 18, 2003

World Court: U.S. Must Stay 3 Executions

The United States must temporarily stay the execution of three Mexican citizens on death row in Texas and Oklahoma, the World Court ruled Wednesday.

In a unanimous decision, the 15-judge panel said that the delay was needed while the U.N. court investigates in full whether the men — and 48 other Mexicans on death row in U.S. prisons — were given their right to legal help from the Mexican government.

Source: Yahoo! News World AP Europe, February 5, 2003

Text of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

World court now a reality

The International Criminal Court was officially instituted today at the United Nations headquarters.

The court, a permanent tribunal to prosecute "crimes against humanity," strides onto the world stage without the ratification of the United States. Deemed by some as a grave threat to national sovereignty, the United States has lodged strenuous objections to the ICC. As late as Monday there were reports that President Bush had sought means to retract the signature of former president Clinton, who signed the treaty on his last day in office. A signature indicates a nation's intent to seek ratification.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 11, 2002

World tribunal 4 signatories away from ratification

The International Criminal Court is on track to become a reality by mid-April, claiming a mandate to indict and try anyone in the world, including Americans, U.N. officials and supporters said yesterday.

Washington Times (online), March 28, 2002

The Crime of Genocide

The International Court would have jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, as that crime is defined in the Rome Statute.

World Court Tries To Stop Virginia Execution

Virginia executes murderer despite world court ruling. Gov. James S. Gilmore III ignored pleas from Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and the world court to stay the execution of a Paraguayan national and allowed him to be put to death last night.

The world court ruled last week that the execution should be stayed because Virginia authorities failed to notify Paraguay of Breard's arrest as required by an international treaty, the Vienna Convention. However, rulings by the 15-member United Nations tribunal are not binding.

Source: Washington Times Online, April 15, 1998

ICC Versus the Family

"If the drive to create the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC) succeeds, opposition to abortion may be criminalized on a global scale, and “private actors” — presumably including parents — may be arraigned for violations of the UN-defined “best interests” of children. This warning was issued by Brigham Young University law professor Richard G. Wilkins in a position paper published by Family Voice." Dr. Wilkins attended the conference in Rome.

Unquestioned Authority

"It is my fervent hope that by then [31 December 2000] a large majority of United Nations Member States will have signed and ratified it, so that the Court will have unquestioned authority and the widest possible jurisdiction....No doubt, many of us would have liked a Court vested with even more far-reaching powers, but that should not lead us to minimize the breakthrough you have achieved." -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Other Crimes May Be Added

"Now at last, thanks to the hard work of the States that participated in the United Nations Conference over the last five weeks -- and indeed for many more months before that -- we shall have a permanent court to judge the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole:  genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Other crimes, wherever and whenever they may be committed, may be included in the future.  The crime of aggression is already mentioned in the Statute" -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

ICC a Violation of International Law

After the vote was taken, representatives from countries were given the opportunity to explain their vote.  The representative from India said the following:

"The Statute gives to the Security Council a role in terms that violate international law.  The Charter did not give the Council the power to set up international criminal courts.  What the Council seeks to do through the Court is the power to block and the power to bind non-State Parties.  It is truly unfortunate that a Statute drafted for an institution to defend the law should start out straying from established international law.  Before it tries its first case, the Court would claim its first victim -- the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

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