Kampala meeting to empower ICC

While the massive slaughter of the Jews by Hitler shocked the world in the war periods, Serbia, Sierra Leone, DRC and Rwanda are some of the leading examples of modern day genocide.

The Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunal were established in the wake of the Second World War in 1948.
But the most fundamental development in the war against human rights violation in the world was the creation of ICC based at The Hague.

In 1998, 120 countries adopted the Rome Statute that established the court. For the first time, states decided to accept the jurisdiction of a permanent international criminal court for the prosecution of the perpetrators of the most serious crimes committed in their territories or by their national after the Rome Statute came into force in 2002.