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The Philippines’ Late Ratification of the Rome Statute

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This chapter describes how the Philippine legislative, the congress, civil society, and the EU kept on pleading President Arroyo to join the ICC, unsuccessfully. While human rights violations, committed under Arroyo’s watch, gave reasons to be suspicious about the ICC, the biggest hindrance for the Philippines’ ratification was the US opposition to the ICC, although Arroyo vehemently denied it. The timing of the ratification was no coincidence. The ratification followed in 2011, after Aquino III had become the President of the Philippines and few days before deadline for the nomination of new judges for the ICC. The Philippines’ candidate as an Asian woman had fantastic perspectives to get elected. While the ratification generated direct benefits for the Philippines, which for years had desired an international judge, Obama’s supportive policy towards the ICC significantly influenced the ratification decision too.

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    HR00094 (1998), HR01503 (2000), HR00341 (2001), HR00800 (2002), HR01391 (2003), HR00050 (2004), HR00417 (2004), HR00425 (2008). Some of the resolutions were later consolidated into HR00526 (2006) and HR00165 (2008).

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Huikuri, S. (2019). The Philippines’ Late Ratification of the Rome Statute. In: The Institutionalization of the International Criminal Court. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95585-8_7

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