"The Assembly of States Parties is meeting this month in The Hague to review the work of the International Criminal Court and to discuss the ICC's budget... At face value, far from increasing the budget for the ICC, the Assembly of State Parties should be demanding a refund.
The ICC has consumed more than a billion euros in its 13-year existence and has only secured two deeply questionable convictions. The ICC's claims to international jurisdiction and judicial independence are institutionally flawed and the court's reputation has been irretrievably damaged by its racism, blatant double standards, hypocrisy, corruption and serious judicial irregularities. The Assembly of State Parties should also accept that it has grotesquely neglected its responsibility to manage the court. The ASP has turned a blind eye to systemic failure on the part of the ICC...
There have been scandalous examples of prosecutorial misconduct, not least of which the ICC Chief Prosecutor hiding hundreds of items of exculpatory evidence, which should have ended any trial because they would have compromised the integrity of any legal process...
It is clear that the both the Assembly of States Parties and the International Criminal Court are simply unfit for purpose. Far from granting the ICC yet more money, both the ASP and the ICC should be defunded and disbanded."