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The Assembly of States Parties Requests the International Criminal Court to Establish Coherent Principles Relating to Reparations for Victims

The important issues dealt with during the Tenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties in New York in late December 2011 include not only the election of the ICC Prosecutor and six judges (see here), but also the adoption of a few important resolutions. This post will discuss Resolution ICC-ASP/10/Res.3 on reparations, adopted by consensus at the 7th plenary meeting on 20 December 2011. Although hailed as one of the major improvements of the international criminal justice system, many substantive and procedural issues regarding reparations for victims remain unsettled to date. Resolution ICC-ASP/10/Res.3 aims at changing this regrettable state of…