The former president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, was transferred overnight from the Ivory Coast to the International Criminal Court detention centre which is located within a Dutch prison in Scheveningen, The Hague.
In March, Amnesty International released a report on “Rape and sexual violence – human rights law and standards in the international criminal court” which aims to identify “how the crimes of rape and sexual violence must, as a requirement of its own statute and a matter of international human rights law, be interpreted and applied with equality between men and women by the International Criminal Court.” As the report noted, the Court had yet to rule on this matter.
On 4 March 2009, Human Rights Watch posted a letter from 28 women who had fled the Darfur conflict. The women welcome the ICC warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.
