Brazilian health workers urged the International Criminal Court on Monday to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro’s government for crimes against humanity over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
A dossier of evidence was handed to the Hague-based court by a group of unions that claim to represent more than one million healthcare staff in Brazil, which has the world’s highest virus death count after the United States.
The ICC — which was set up in 2002 to achieve justice for the world’s worst crimes including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide — has no obligation to consider such complaints.
