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On March 13, 2018, the Philippines withdrew its membership from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Duterte justified the withdrawal by accusing the ICC and the United Nations of "crusading" against him and condemning the UN's "baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks" on him and his administration. [27]
[1] [2] Burundi and the Philippines were member states, but later withdrew effective 27 October 2017 [3] and 17 March 2019, [4] respectively. [1] [2] A further 29 countries [a] have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute.
The Philippines has notified the U.N. secretary-general of its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), but has assured the United Nations of its commitment to the rule of ...
The United Nations received the official notification of withdrawal on March 17, 2018; [42] one year later (March 17, 2019), by rule, the Philippines' withdrawal became official. The legal validity of the withdrawal was challenged at the Supreme Court of the Philippines , [ 19 ] was dismissed in a unanimous decision for being "moot and academic ...
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A Supreme Court (SC) ruling in March 2021 dismissed three petitions filed by the Philippine Coalition for the ICC, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, and opposition senators challenging Duterte's withdrawal from the ICC on the grounds that the petitioners were unable to establish legal standing to challenge the action. The SC also ruled ...
This prompted Duterte in March 2018 to initiate the withdrawal of the Philippines from the ICC, [216] which took effect a year later, on March 17, 2019. [217] Duterte rebuked the idea of allowing foreigners to meddle in the country's justice system and his administration emphasized that cases against him should be filed before the national courts.