The obstacles facing the work of the international criminal court (ICC)‎

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The International Criminal Court is created to be as first permanent international criminal judicial court in history of international community.

It is following the perpetrators of the most serious crimes in the world such as crimes of war, genocides, crimes of humanity and crimes of aggression.

The Court is created to be as a court of last resort, so the Court is adopted the complementary principles.

The court will not interfere in any case unless if the national judicial system failed to try perpetrators of these crimes.

After 15 years of application of Rome Statute, the Court face now some obstacles or perspectives these obstacles have become as challenges in front of the Court when it wants to spread the criminal justice in the world.

These obstacles are identifying by some of international scholars.

However, the most important perspectives are the Security Council Referral, sovereignty of states and cooperation of all states.