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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect international justice

Exterior of international criminal court
Hague Group policy will reflect anger at double standards of western powers relating to international law. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

South Africa and Malaysia will launch a campaign to protect and uphold the rulings of the international court of justice (ICJ) and the international criminal court (ICC) in the face of what they describe as defiance of ICJ orders and attempts by US Congress to hit the ICC through the use of sanctions.

The aim of the nine-nation Hague Group – which includes Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Senegal and Namibia - is to defend the institutions and rulings of the international legal order.

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