Prosecution Mechanism before The ICC

Abstract

The perpetration of one of the four international crimes represented in: war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide and crimes of aggression by a natural person alone is not sufficient for the International Criminal Court to exercise its jurisdiction over it, its statute did not recognize the principle of spontaneous jurisdiction, but rather restricted by the need to set in motion an international criminal lawsui by specific parties exclusively and that there is a set of conditions for accepting the case before it.

As this study aims to identify the parties who may set the case in motion before the International Criminal Court, and to clarify the various conditions governing this procedure.