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Christine Van den Wyngaert

Christine Van den Wyngaert is a former judge at the ICC (2009–2018), a former judge at the Yugoslavia Tribunal and a former ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice. She is professor emerita at the University of Antwerp.

The ICC is in its worst crisis yet — and Europe’s double standards are a big part of the problem
16 July 2026 by Christine Van den Wyngaert
A tribunal created for one conflict — while acts of aggression in the Middle East and Latin America go unanswered — serves the court’s critics their strongest argument on a silver platter: that international criminal justice is a selective instrument of Western power, not a universal principle.