The International Criminal Court and the Procedural Rights of Victims

From 1945 to 1998 when the International Criminal Court was created the victim was a “stowaway in international proceedings and courtroom”. She could neither participate actively in international criminal proceedings nor obtain redress in international courts. The advent of the International Criminal Court now makes it an actor in international criminal procedure whose “sui generis” status raises questions ... This book aims to present the particularity of the rights of the victim before the ICC - rights derived from not from the texts of the Court but from its case law - and the obstacles it will face once before this Higher Tribunal and more generally in international criminal proceedings. It also carries out a complete analysis of the current legal regime for victims and suggests possible solutions for the consolidation of the status of the “international victim” before international criminal courts.