The failure of the ICC Victims Fund

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For more than 15 years, the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has constantly reviewed its plans, strategy and modus operandi. The result is a clear failure. Its budget is opaque. Its concrete actions for victims are as limited as they are devoid of evaluation. Based on the analysis of Court documents, numerous interviews and reports in the field - such as in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or Georgia - Justice Info reveals the (dys)functioning of this organ of the ICC and establishes the responsibilities for its failure. How did we get here? Who is to blame?
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ICC's Trust Fund for Victims (TFV): a failure
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Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers.
Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit
The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
Tina ICC Victims Fund: Waiting for Godot in Georgia
28 January 2021 by Franck Petit
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 6 Georgia was the first place outside the African continent selected by the International Criminal Court for investigation. Twelve years after the 2008 war, the small Caucasian country is still wait [...]
Child ICC Victims Fund: Who’s responsible for its failure? (Everybody)
21 January 2021 by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 5 As shown in previous articles, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has not delivered on its mandate. By 2020, less than 300 victims have received reparations in only one ICC [...]
ICC Trust Fund: "A good day today is better than a bad day tomorrow" (Uganda)
17 December 2020 by Grace Matsiko
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 4 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has fun [...]
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16 December 2020 by Lisa Clifford
ICC Trust Fund: "Something to wipe away the tears of victims" (DRC) ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 3 The Germain Katanga trial stands as a concrete example of what reparations may mean at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Journalist Lisa Clifford was in the village of Bogoro back in 2017 wh [...]
9 December 2020 by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The black hole ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 2 The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) was initially conceived as an independent reparations body; the organisation that would provide the International Criminal Court-ordered reparations to victims. Bu [...]
8 December 2020 by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The headless chicken ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 1 In 15 years, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has struggled to develop its strategy. Its budget is opaque. Its output as limited as it is difficult to assess. Through cour [...]