Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)
International Court of Justice
2006 I.C.J. No. 126
Relevant factsFree
The DRC (plaintiff) sued Rwanda (defendant) over alleged military activities, invoking jurisdictional clauses in several treaties, but Rwanda had entered reservations to the Genocide Convention's dispute-resolution clause that it never formally communicated as withdrawn (despite a later peace agreement referencing withdrawal of reservations to human rights agreements generally), and the DRC never attempted negotiations or arbitration under the separate Convention on Discrimination against Women before suing.
IssueFree
Whether a court's jurisdiction over an international dispute may ever be established by a treaty.