The International Criminal Court (Part 1) stages of defining the legal structure
The establishment of the International Criminal Court is the most important step in the world for an effective international mechanism for the protection of human rights.
Although the idea of an international criminal justice is not new in the field of international relations, and although many ideas and attempts date back to a century ago, the basic step that took the process from the circle of (wishful thinking) to the circle of action remains with the approval of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to enter The world is a new phase in which there is real seriousness in protecting human rights from abuse, and let the world announce that no one is going to go unpunished now as long as they violate human rights.
However, the implementation of that remains the challenge facing all of us because activating this mechanism and protecting human rights is the task of the entire international community and is not a task restricted to specific countries, or to specific government institutions, but rather it is the task of people wherever they are found. The contribution of the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) comes through many activities and programs around the International Criminal Court as part of the duty of civil society institutions. Among the most prominent of these programs that we are proud of are a number of publications and publications issued by the centre on this important and serious topic, and in the forefront was this truly important book, which fills a real void in the Arab Library, and provides serious information, outstanding research, and advanced vision, for a specialist and legal who gave This topic is all his effort and time, and he is Dr Ahmed Al-Hamidi – Professor of Law, the subject of the International Criminal Court. Therefore, this book comes to be a real and timely addition.
