On 9 October the United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court. Europe can respond with the Blocking Statute, but only 5 of 27 governments are calling for it: your donation helps us keep insisting until they activate it.
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Justice cannot be sanctioned✦Blocking Statute now✦13,806 signatures from 80 countries✦Defend the ICC✦Support the campaign✦
Justice cannot be sanctioned✦Blocking Statute now✦13,806 signatures from 80 countries✦Defend the ICC✦Support the campaign✦
On the same day
Oslo · 9 October
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navi Pillay
A former judge of the International Criminal Court, she presided over the Rwanda tribunal and served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Nobel
Washington · 9 October
Sanctions against the Court
The United States targets the Court as an institution: assets frozen, transactions banned, six months for American companies to cut all ties.
Sanctioned
“Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.”
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, 9 October 2026
Our answerJustice cannot be sanctioned.
Oslo honours those who have spent their lives bringing war crimes and genocide to trial. Washington punishes those who keep doing it.
People are on board
13,806signatures
80countries
are calling on Europe to defend the Court. In one week, the appeal doubled its signatures.
Where they come from
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Map of the 27 EU governments and their position on the Blocking Statute
Governments are not
5of 27
EU governments are calling for the Blocking Statute, the tool that shields European citizens and companies from sanctions like these. The other 22 are missing, Italy included.
Call for activation
Asks to prepare it
Mentions it, no commitment
No position
92MEPs have asked for it personally
0States against it
Belgium has announced it will take the request to the Foreign Affairs Council and the European Council. Your donation helps us win over the other governments, starting with Italy’s.
Your donation helps us keep insisting until the Blocking Statute is activated and the Court can work freely.
Insisting in Brussels
Meetings, letters and proposals to the European Commission, the Council and MEPs, until the Blocking Statute is activated.
Insisting with governments
Starting with Rome, where the Court’s Statute was born in 1998: we are asking Italy to take a stand, update its laws and implement universal jurisdiction.
The monitor
We track every position taken by governments and institutions and make it public: who defends the Court and who stands by.
Information and mobilisation
Ads like the one in POLITICO Europe, the appeal, WhatsApp and social media campaigns that put the Court at the centre of the debate.
Raise your hand for the Court
196 people have already raised their hand for the Court by giving to the campaign.
Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), Nobel Peace Prize
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics
Richard J. Roberts, Nobel Prize in Medicine
Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize in Physics
Oleksandra Matviichuk (Center for Civil Liberties), Nobel Peace Prize
13,806people have signed the appeal
The Court will still need political, financial and popular support in its fight against impunity for the most serious crimes.
This campaign goes on.
Questions
How will you use my donation?
To carry on the campaign to defend the International Criminal Court, with No Peace Without Justice: insisting through meetings and proposals in Brussels and national capitals, the monitor, information and mobilisation.
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Who is Eumans?
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