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The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
The Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v.Israel) [1] is an ongoing case that was brought before the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023 by South Africa regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war, that resulted in a humanitarian crisis and mass killings.
International courts are formed by treaties between nations, or under the authority of an international organization such as the United Nations—this includes ad hoc tribunals and permanent institutions, but excludes any courts arising purely under national authority.
At the time of the court's dissolution, there were seven permanent judges and one ad hoc judge who served on the tribunal. [28] [29] A total of 86 judges have been appointed to the tribunal from 52 United Nations member states. Of those judges, 51 were permanent judges, 36 were ad litem judges, and one was an ad hoc judge.
The proposed International Criminal Tribunal for the Russian Federation is a proposed ad hoc international criminal tribunal aimed at prosecuting the Russian Federation and senior Russian and Belarusian leaders for the Russian invasions of Ukraine as one or more crimes of aggression, as a complement to the existing International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine. [1]
International Court of Justice (since 1945) International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, an ad hoc criminal tribunal created by the United Nations Security Council; International Criminal Court, a permanent criminal court created by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; International Court of Arbitration of the ...
An international court is an international organization, or a body of an international organization, that hears cases in which one party may be a state or international organization (or body thereof), and which is composed of independent judges who follow predetermined rules of procedure to issue binding decisions on the basis of international law.
Ad hoc international criminal tribunals include: International Military Tribunal (1945) [1] International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1945) [1] International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993) [1] International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1994) [1] Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002) [1]