Sentence examples for founding statute from inspiring English sources

As it happens, Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor in The Hague, is a respected Gambian; 34 African governments have signed up to the international court's founding statute.

Ban has repeatedly called for the Syrian conflict to be referred to the International Criminal Court, but the Syrian regime is not a signatory to the court's founding statute, so any referral would have to be agreed by the security council – something Russia has blocked up to now.

Under the founding statute of the I.C.C., grave violations of the Geneva Conventions, including civilian settlements in occupied territories, are considered war crimes.

The ECB is independent of national governments, and is obliged by its founding statute to "maintain price stability" as its "primary objective".

Russia has removed its signature from the founding statute, the Philippines and Kenya are openly contemplating departure and key member nations – including the UK – have limited its funding.

Russia has said it is formally withdrawing its signature from the founding statute of the international criminal court, a day after the court published a report classifying the Russian annexation of Crimea as an occupation.

The NLRB argues that its founding statutes permit a five-member board to delegate power to a three-member board, and that the three-member board may further delegate to a quorum of two.

"Therefore, the judges concluded that the case is inadmissible before the court, in accordance with the principle of complementarity enshrined in the Rome Statute, founding treaty of the ICC".

Its record in handling cases it has taken on so far will be under close scrutiny.Meanwhile, the Kampala conference must also decide what, if anything, to do about a fourth crime listed in the court's founding Rome statute: aggression.

Now is the time to stop talking about violations of human rights in Syria, and, instead, to describe atrocities in the proper terms: war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined, unambiguously, in the Rome Statute, the founding document of the International Criminal Court.

The Rome Statute, the founding instrument of the International Criminal Court, contains a number of important innovations designed to ensure that sexual and gender based crimes are addressed.