Fatou Bensouda

Photo of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda wearing a blue, green and orange outfit

Human rights activists hope international court will help end Duterte’s deadly war on drugs in the Philippines

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken a crucial step this week that may lead to an official investigation into the thousands of killings linked to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody, yearslong war on drugs.

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, in this this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo.

Israel has a stake in Biden administration’s decision to lift ICC sanctions

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