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Victims Trust Fund

The International Criminal Court examines the most serious crimes. Consequently, its trials involve victims who have often been damaged in the most severe manner.
Providing justice to these victims is important. But so too is providing them with help and compensation to enable them to rebuild lives often shattered by war. The Victims Trust Fund aims to help meet that need.

Victims can include child soldiers - minors pressed into military service who may have suffered great ordeals as a result of being forced into front line service. Or a victim may be the result of a case of rape, needing help not just for the material loss in a war, but for trauma counselling. Other victims may have seen their property and livelihood destroyed. In other cases, a village may have been destroyed in fighting, and money will be needed to rebuild it.

The Fund was established by the Court, and is administered by the Registry, but it is also supervised by an independent Board of Directors. The purpose of the fund is to channel money to victims. Sometimes this will be money that the court orders an offender to pay as compensation. Under Article 75, paragraph Two of the Rome Statute, the Court may order a convicted person to pay money for compensation, restitution or rehabilitation.

The funds can be allocated either to individuals or to a collectivity. The fund may make payments directly to victims or to other bodies, such as an aid organisation. A convict might not have the necessary funds to pay the compensation sum imposed by the Court, external sources can be involved. These include grants from governments, international organisations or individuals.

Voluntary contributions by outside entities to the fund must first be approved by the funds Board of Directors.

The Board is made up of five members, each elected for three years term by the States Parties among persons of high moral character. They can be re-elected once only.

The board meets at least once a year at the ICC headquarters.

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