Tokyo Tribunal Charter is issued

The London Agreement and Charter created the Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute leading European Axis figures for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It helped establish...

The UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It recognized genocide as an international crime and called for an international penal...

The General Assembly affirmed that genocide and other international crimes required international prosecution and asked the International Law Commission to study a permanent criminal court....

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson asked the UN General Assembly to consider an international court, initially to address international drug trafficking. The proposal reopened wider...

Security Council Resolution 827 established the ICTY after reports of grave violations in the former Yugoslavia. The ad hoc tribunal revived international criminal prosecutions, but its creation by...

The International Law Commission completed a draft statute for an international criminal court. Its work followed the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and helped shift the debate from a...