International Criminal Courts
This is a posting I received through the AALL FCIL listserv which I thought a worthwile addition to SLAW’s discussion on preservation and digital archives:
The USIP report prepared “Temporary Courts, Permanent Records” examines and makes recommendations for the permanent retention of the records of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the Special Panels and Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor, and the internationalized courts and prosecutors in Kosovo.
I was astounded that there was even an issue about whether or not to preserve these records. The link from the USIP page to a summary of the Recommendations from the report has some excellent links at the bottom, particularly to the Truth Commissions Digital Collection
Hi Neil
I think everyone should know (perhaps this could be cross-posted to the FCIL list) that the Coalition for an International Criminal Court is the main online source for everything to do with the International Criminal Court (not ITCR or ITCY). This coalition helped make the ICC what it is today, and they have been tracking it since its inception in the 1990s. On their website you can get all primary documents all the way from the Statute of Rome itself, to all of the PrepComm documents, the plenipotentiaries, the states party meetings, to position papers, indictments, and more. I worked with the ICC as a volunteer to try to help them wrap their minds around building a library (digital and otherwise). It’s all on there, there’s no other source like it and everyone, including this project should know about it. Perhaps we should tell them?
http://www.iccnow.org/