Why is the US targeting the ICC?

Start Here with Al Jazeera, 28 June 2020

What is behind the Trump administration's sanctions against the International Criminal Court?

Does it have anything to do with US soldiers in Afghanistan? And what does Israel have to do with any of this?

Watch "Start Here with Al Jazeera" looking into the case and including a contribution by Alison Smith, International Justice Director, No peace WIthout Justice.

Read also:

NPWJ rejects US sanctions and stands together with the ICC, 12 June 2020
ICC Prosecutor should indict Secretary Pompeo for obstruction of justice, under Article 70 of the Rome Statute, 15 March 2019

For further information, contact Alison Smith, Director Of International Justice, on asmith@npwj.org or Nicola Giovannini, Press & Public Affairs Coordinator, on ngiovannini@npwj.org org.

No Peace Without Justice non‑profit organisation founded by Emma Bonino and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice, and undertakes its work within the following main thematic programs: the international criminal justice program; the program on gender and human rights, with particular reference to the ban on Female Genital Mutilation; the Middle East and North Africa Democracy program; the campaign against human and environmental devastation in the Amazon.

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