International Justice System

The Government remains fully committed to the principle that there should be no impunity for the most serious international crimes.  The Foreign Secretary reiterated the UK’s commitment to international criminal justice in a speech on “International Law and Justice in a Networked World” in The Hague in July, available online at the FCO website. The UK remains actively engaged with all six existing international criminal courts and tribunals in this area: as a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, as a member of the UN Security Council (which oversees the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda) and as a major donor and member of the management bodies of the voluntary-funded tribunals for Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Lebanon.