38 rights groups back legal challenge to US sanctions on International Criminal Court

Thirty-eight international civil society organisations have backed a lawsuit challenging US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that the measures impede human rights work and victims’ access to international justice. The organisations, including Amnesty International and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), submitted a brief to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in support of the legal challenge. The lawsuit was filed on August 11 by four US-based organizations — the American Friends Service Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and Open Society Institute — against the Trump administration’s sanctions regime targeting ICC officials and others working with or assisting the court. The case challenges an executive order signed by […]