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What America Does For International Justice
Mar 8 2009, Marco Villa

The United States often comes under a lot of criticism for its absence from the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The entire European Union and and 83 other nations, 108 nations in all, have ratified the Rome treaty that established the...

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