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The 2005 Budget of the International Criminal Court: Contingency, Insufficient Funding in Key Areas and the Recurring Question of the Independence of the Prosecutor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2005

JONATHAN O'DONOHUE
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Abstract

Faced with increasing expectations and demands on the new International Criminal Court, the process of preparing its budget for 2005 presented significant challenges to the Court, the Committee on Budget and Finance and the Assembly of States Parties. This article focuses on the major challenges and examines the decisions taken by the Assembly. In particular, it looks at budgetary matters relating to the independence of the Prosecutor and decisions that could undermine it. Furthermore, with planned progress towards the first trials it focuses on key areas of the Court's work, including outreach, victim protection and field presence, that are in danger of being compromised through under-investment.

Keywords

BudgetInternational Criminal CourtIndependence of Prosecutorvictimswitnesses
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: International Criminal Court
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , October 2005 , pp. 591 - 603
Copyright
© 2005 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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Footnotes

For information about the 2004 budget process see J. O'Donohue, ‘Towards a Fully Functional International Criminal Court: The Adoption of the 2004 Budget’, (2004) 17 LJIL 579–97.