Valérie V. Suhr

Dr. Valérie Suhr is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg. In her Ph.D. thesis, which was published as a book in 2022, she already argued that crimes committed against sexual and gender are included in the Rome Statute’s crime against persecution on gender grounds.

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Finally, “Rainbow Jurisdiction” at the International Criminal Court?

Valérie V. Suhr

On 23 January 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC has filed the first two applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan. These...

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Rainbow jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court?

Valérie V. Suhr

On 8 November 2017, something happened which can be seen as a milestone for gay rights: a communication was submitted to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

We need to talk about ‘race’

Dana Schmalz Mareike Riedel Valérie V. Suhr

“Race is the child of racism, not the father,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Between the World and Me”. Such understanding of race, not as an empirical category but as a...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Feminism and the International Criminal Court – still an issue?

Valérie V. Suhr

While the International Criminal Court (ICC) has always been subject to criticism and is maybe currently facing its biggest crisis with member states withdrawing, the things that are actually going...

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The ICC’s Al Mahdi verdict on the destruction of cultural heritage: two steps forward, one step back?

Valérie V. Suhr

On 27 October 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi of war crimes related to the destruction of protected cultural heritage in Mali under article...