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Chile Eboe-Osuji: Can the International Criminal Court achieve its goals?
Chile Eboe-Osuji is president of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Can his organisation achieve its grand ambitions in the face of hostility from President Trump?
President Trump has just widened the scope of US sanctions placed on top officials of the International Criminal Court describing the court as an extraordinary threat to the United States. Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of the ICC, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji. It was an institution set up to end impunity for the worst of crimes – is it time to conclude that grand ambition will never be realised?
(Photo: President of the ICC, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji)
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