Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
January 2008
Conference / Event Title
The American Society of International Law (ASIL) Proceedings of the 112th Annual Meeting
Abstract
Remarks: Assurances of victim participation in proceedings before the International Criminal Court and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia have been seen as a welcome corrective to the flawed model of earlier tribunals. The first such tribunal created since the postwar period, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was established by the UN Security Council in May 1993 without even consulting those who survived the atrocities that gave rise to its creation, the majority of which took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina.Nor were victims formally incorporated into the ICTY's work except for those who provided testimony and other evidence. (The same holds true for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established by the UN Security Council in 1994; in the interests of brevity, my remarks will focus on the ICTY.)
Recommended Citation
Orentlicher, Diane, "Building Victim-Led Coalitions to Press for Justice Following Mass Atrocity" (2008). Presentations. 404.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_presentations/404