The ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel, as neither country is party to the Rome Statute or a member of the ICC. Neither country has ever recognized the ICC's jurisdiction, and both nations are thriving democracies with militaries that strictly adhere to the laws of war .

Alleged anti-African bias in how ICC cases are selected remains one of the major criticisms of the international community towards the ICC. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s disengagement, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, declared that ‘the court did not live up to the hopes associated with it and did not ...

2022年4月16日 · It's the International Criminal Court, or ICC. But here's the rub. The U.S. does not recognize the jurisdiction of this legal body. We wanted to learn more about why the U.S. does not and,...

2025年4月3日 · The ICC doesn’t have its own law enforcement powers, so it relies on its member states to make arrests and transfer suspects to the Hague. As a signatory of the Rome Statute, which established ...

2024年11月21日 · But several powerful countries, including the United States, do not recognize its authority and refuse to become members. The court was created over two decades ago to hold people accountable for...

2024年5月21日 · United States President Joe Biden calls the International Criminal Court’s plans to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas “outrageous” for implying that their actions are equivalent. Since the court was created almost a quarter-century ago, the US has refused to become a state party to the court, even though it helped create it.

2025年2月7日 · In his first term, Trump argued that the ICC has “no jurisdiction, no legitimacy and no authority” in the U.S., and neither the U.S. nor Israel are parties to the so-called Rome Statute,...

2025年4月8日 · “Quite simply, some international institutions have become political bodies,” he told a Hungarian radio program on Friday. “Unfortunately, the International Criminal Court is one of these.

2025年3月14日 · The two judges argued that the ICC no longer had jurisdiction over the country due to the Philippines’ withdrawal as signatory from the Rome Statute (not Statue as indicated in the post caption) effective since March 17, 2019.

2024年5月23日 · The United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday.