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The number of ratifications mentioned in the infobox does not seem to be up-to-date (date was 2013), as other articles on this site as well as specific sections in this article have numbers higher than 107 state parties, where this infobox says only 60. I am not certain about these numbers, so I hope someone other than myself could make an edit to remedy this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.109.80.245 ( talk) 15:43, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Removed from article: "The ICC's advocates assert that the Rome Statute provides the ICC with universal jurisdiction, particularly over genocide and crimes against humanity. These advocates consider the treaty to constitute an international law, hence the the use of the term statute in the treaty's name.
Critics of the Rome Statute, notably China and the United States, adamantly deny its claim of universal jurisdiction."
This seems to be incorrect. The ICC only has jurisdiction over states that sign the Rome Statute and only if the specified crimes occur after the state signed the treaty. --rmhermen
I disagree. A US citizen could still come before the court where he or she is alleged to have committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court on the territory of a State which is a party to the Statute of the Court or which accepts the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court specifically with respect to the crime in question.
Consent of either the territorial state or the state of nationality is a sufficient “precondition” for the Court to exercise its jurisdiction. -EJL
-- 202.164.195.56 12:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
My concern is that the article clearly takes a favorable view of the ICC, and thus deserves a POV tag. I'll see what I can do to improve it. Timothy Usher 23:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
At least some of the citations provided are to websites which required a login, and are not verifiable. Could more appropriate citations be used, please? Jayjg (talk) 00:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
The article says "However, the statute does enjoy some support in the United States. Democratic Party 2008 United States Presidential candidates John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have stated their intent to re-sign the statute and promote its ratification if elected." This is an irrelevant inclusion because even if elected President, any new presidential treaty signing is irrelevant. Only the US Senate can ratify a treaty and it could do so today - if it wishes. Presidents have nothing to do with treaty ratification, and presidential canidates have less than nothing. Raggz ( talk) 01:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 18:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
The article's text is not supported by the two citations used for support:
^ The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 18. Accessed 2007-01-23. ^ U.S. Announces Intent Not to Ratify International Criminal Court Treaty, American Society of International Law, 2002-05-01, accessed on 2007-01-23
Because the claim is unsupported by the citations, it requires deletion. Raggz ( talk) 07:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
The color scheme of the image needs to be clarified in the caption. Otherwise nobody has any clue what green, orange, and gray mean. Wikipediarul e s 2221 00:38, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Added some words in the history section (translated from Italian) and the copyediting tag, as I think a clean up and uniform styles could be a good idea. There are a few sentences that sound not as smooth as in the Italian version. -- Vale new ( talk) 23:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
I removed the reference to the proposed inclusion of ecocide, because it is neither in the 1994 ILC draft (to be found here). Neither was it mentioned during the conference which established the Statute, nor in the commissions that came before it (minutes of those to be found here). There is only one mention by a Libyan plenopotary who mentions 'in addition to so-called aggression and so-called terrorism, the Court might deal with ... aggression against the environment and other threats' (Vol I, para 82). He, however, does not hint at any discussion that was going on at the conference.
There is, however, a reference to 'wilful and severe damage to the environment' as an proposed international crime in the 1991 ILC Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind (it proposed 12 international crimes) (to be found here. It probably did not survive the second reading of 1994 (ILC Yearbook 1994, Vol II, Part I) and was not included in the 1996 draft of crimes. Now the reason I'm writing this part is because these ILC draft crimes were the basis on which the Special-Rapporteur would make a report which was copied by the Commission tasked with writing a draft Statute. The Special-Rapporteur deemed it necessary to drop all international crimes in his report whose standing in international law was doubtful "ecocide" was among them (for a short history on the interplay between both ILC drafts see here.)
However as must be clear by now. Ecocide was never considered for inclusion in the 1998 Rome Statute. Neither was it cut in the 'negotiations' of said Statute. It simply did not make those negotiations. Hence, the cited article clearly got its facts wrong. Perudotes ( talk) 23:55, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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As of November 2019, 123 states[20] are parties to the Statute of the Court, including all the countries of South America, nearly all of Europe, most of Oceania and roughly half of Africa.[2][21] Burundi and the Philippines were member states, but later withdrew effective 27 October 2017[22] and 17 March 2019,[23] respectively.[2][21] A further 31 countries[20] have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute.[2][21] The law of treaties obliges these states to refrain from "acts which would defeat the object and purpose" of the treaty until they declare they do not intend to become a party to the treaty.[24] Four signatory states—Israel,[25] Sudan,[26] the United States[27][28] and Russia[29]—have informed the UN Secretary General that they no longer intend to become states parties and, as such, have no legal obligations arising from their signature of the Statute.[2][21]
What the reason might be? Axlesaery ( talk) 03:29, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Armenia has moved to ratify the Statute: [3] 331dot ( talk) 13:19, 3 October 2023 (UTC)