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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Office of Public Counsel for Victims: International Criminal Court (ICC)

Paolina Massidda

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Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
March 2023

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 October 2024

Subject(s):
Legal representation, right to — International criminal law, victims — Counsel — Administrative organization — Reparations

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 The crimes punishable by international criminal law generate a significant number of casualties: some 6.7 million human beings were exterminated during the Second World War; in 1994, the Rwandan genocide generated 800,000 deaths within 100 days. In Srebrenica, in July 1995, between 7,000 and 8,000 Bosnian Muslim males were systematically killed. 2 However, for a very long time, victims of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole were considered as mere witnesses. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the International...
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