This draconian décret présidentiel undermines the ICC’s core mandate of preventing and ending impunity for the most serious crimes, and threatens its daily operations, obstructing access to justice for victims of Rome Statute crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression, across ICC situation countries around the world.
By potentially targeting ICC staff and judges, legal representatives for victims, civil society, service providers, national authorities, and others including even victims themselves, the executive order jeopardises international efforts to combat impunity for mass atrocities.
FIDH calls on all 125 ICC States Parties to publicly denounce the executive order as an attack on international justice and accountability, and to take decisive measures to defend the ICC’s independence, ensure its effective functioning, and protect victims’ rights and equal access to justice.
