Book contents
- Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection at the International Criminal Court
- Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection at the International Criminal Court
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Human Rights Obligations of the ICC
- Part I Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection
- Part II Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection
- 5 The Human Rights Obligations of the ICC Host State
- 6 Accused, Convicted, and Acquitted
- 7 Detained and Non-Detained Witnesses
- Part III Evaluation and Proposals
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Accused, Convicted, and Acquitted
from Part II - Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection at the International Criminal Court
- Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection at the International Criminal Court
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Human Rights Obligations of the ICC
- Part I Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection
- Part II Multi-Actor Human Rights Protection
- 5 The Human Rights Obligations of the ICC Host State
- 6 Accused, Convicted, and Acquitted
- 7 Detained and Non-Detained Witnesses
- Part III Evaluation and Proposals
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter revisits situations that were addressed under Part I, and adds an additional layer of complexity to them. Human rights protection during interim release, enforcement of sentence, and acquittal and release involves, in addition to the ICC and States Parties, also the ICC host State. This involvement follows from the fact that, at some point during each of these situations, the accused, acquitted, or convicted person finds themselves at the seat of the Court. As this chapter demonstrates, the presence of these individuals on the territory of the host State has the potential to engage the Netherlands’ obligations to protect human rights, both under the Rome Statute protection framework and beyond it. This places the Netherlands in a safety-net role, potentially required to step in where the structural problems created by the multi-actor nature of human rights protection leaves individuals vulnerable. However, the involvement of the Netherlands gives rise to its own set of possible implementation problems.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020