In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly first recognised the need for a permanent international court to deal with atrocities of the kind prosecuted after the Second World War. The International Military Tribunal, which sat in Nuremberg, prosecuted German leaders while the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo prosecuted Japanese leaders. įollowing the Second World War, the allied powers established two ad hoc tribunals to prosecute Axis leaders accused of war crimes. The convention was signed by 13 states, but none ratified it and the convention never entered into force. The issue was addressed again at a conference held in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations in 1937, which resulted in the conclusion of the first convention stipulating the establishment of a permanent international court to try acts of international terrorism. The establishment of an international tribunal to judge political leaders accused of international crimes was first proposed during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 following the First World War by the Commission of Responsibilities.

The ICC moved into this building in December 2015.

The premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

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