Relationship to the UN: the UN's principal judicial organ (UN Charter, Article 92), in The Hague. Its 15 judges are elected to nine-year terms by the UN General Assembly and Security Council. It decides disputes between STATES and gives advisory opinions; it does not try individuals and cannot issue arrest warrants. Hears South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention, filed December 2023; undecided).
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