Speech of the ICCBA President

International Meetings of the Defence – 8 November 2018

Excellences, Your most distinguished honors, ladies and gentlemen,

I am delighted to be here in my capacity as President of the International Criminal Court Bar

Association to represent the Executive Council of the Association and all members of the Bar

present in nearly all countries of the world in this Conference. I bring the best wishes from

the ICCBA to all asse...

Speech of the ICCBA President

Opening of the ICC Judicial Year – 18 January 2019

Excellencies, Your most distinguished honors, Madam Prosecutor and Mr. Registrar,

I am honored to be here today to represent all members of the International Criminal Court

Bar Association on this important occasion of the opening of the judicial year of the

International Criminal Court, and would like to thank His Excellency President Chile EboeOsuji for the privilege to speak...

THE FOUMBAN BAZAAR: MASKING THE SLAVE DEAL

One of the greatest African creative writers and progressive critical thinker of our times the late Dr Bate Besong described the purported constitutional conference that took place in Foumban on the 17 of July 1961 between the leaders and delegates of the independent La Republique du Cameroun and the leaders of the Southern Cameroons then under British administration as the “Foumban Bazaar”.

The Foumban Bazaa...

17th Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute

General Debate

Statement by Chief Charles Taku, President of the

International Criminal Court Bar Association

Your Excellency, the President of the Assembly of States Parties,

Your Excellencies,

Distinguished attendees,

It is my privilege to address you on behalf of the International Criminal Court Bar

Association. The ICCBA, as the collective voice for independent counsel and support staff

FAIR TRIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE AMENDED ARTICLE 68 OF ICC RoPE

Chief Charles Taku

This is a research paper regarding the new scope of the use of prior record testimony in the International Criminal Court (‘’ the Court’’) under the amended Rule 68 of RoPE and its limitation in light of the fair trial requirement outlined in Rome Statute and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, relev...

20 YEARS AFTER ROME: BACK TO THE MAJOR CHALLENGES OF

COOPERATION

• Chief Charles A. Taku, Presdient, ICCBA

Introduction

The ICCBA was represented at the conference of 7 November 2018 by the ICCBA Vice

President for the Defence Dr Caroline Buisman. I was unavoidably absent due to my

involvement in an ongoing trial before the court. The report I received from the distinguished

organisers, France and Senegal was that the contributions made at the c...

Restitutie koloniale roofkunst

Een westerse worsteling met goede bedoelingen

Mede aangevuurd door ontwikkelingen in Frankrijk kondigden Nederlandse museum-directeuren in maart 2019 nieuwe stappen aan met betrekking tot de teruggave van koloniale roofkunst. Wat heeft dit opgeleverd?

Niels Mathijssen

Kunsthistorica Bénédicte Savoy vermeldt in haar commentaar in Le Monde de contouren van de gebeurtenis nauwgez...

RECOLONIZING AFRICA THROUGH INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

A) THE HARD QUESTIONS.

The preamble of the United Nations (UN) Charter states that the United Nations was created “ To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life time, has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, an...

PAN AFRICAN VISIONS

Developments in criminal jurisdiction and the impact of the International Criminal Court’s prosecution and investigation policies on ICC African Situations

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By Chief Charles A. Taku*

Chief Charles Taku

The ICC like the Ad Hoc tribunals, ICTR and the Special Court for Sierra Leone previously, goes far ...

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ICTR: ETERNALISING THE JUDICIAL GENOCIDE OF THE HUTU.

BY CHIEF CHARLES TAKU.

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Introduction.

Writing in the Virginia Journal of International Law, Jenia Iontcheva Turner states

that:

“The “Legal” and “Political” conceptions of international criminal trials are

ideal types. To some degree all law is political.

As mentioned earlier, when trials move further along the political spectrum,

defendant...