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Qasem Soleimani received the Zolfaghar Order from Ali Khamenei, the 87-year-old Supreme Leader who was assassinated in the US and Israeli strikes against Iran. Photo: khamenei.ir

US/Israel war against International Law

The assassination of Khamenei was another blatant violation of international law. It was also part of a broader strategy to eliminate moderate leaders, whose absence is then used…

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions

The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist

Members of the Black Sash and Movement for Colonial Freedom  and the Black march to South Africa House in London to deliver a memorandum to South African prime minister JG Strijdom. Photo: ulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images

Apartheid, crimes against humanity: How the law remembers the past

The 80th anniversary of WWII is an opportune moment to reflect on the future of justice in South Africa

Ukrainian forensic experts describe the bodies of dead Russian soldiers, who died in settlements north of Kharkiv. ( (Photo by Ivan Chernichkin/Zaborona/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Forensics the key to missing and dead on old and new battlefields

The fledgling Red Cross Military Identification Programme aims to collaborate with non-state and state military groups to establish DNA profiling of combatants before deployment

There has always been a special bond between the liberation struggles in South Africa and Palestine, rooted in their shared experience of brutal settler colonial oppression.

The ICC should speedily investigate the crime against humanity of apartheid in Palestine

Apartheid as a crime against humanity has reached customary international law status, which means that it is law that is considered binding on states under international law even…

Rwanda’s former army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa looks on at a court in Johannesburg on July 10, 2012.  Ex-Rwandan army general is in court to testify in the trial of men charged with attempting to kill him outside his Johannesburg home in 2010. Nyamwasa told a South African court on June 21, 2012 that he was shot two years ago for defying President Paul Kagame, as he testified in the trial of six men.  “The reasons why I would think anyone would want me dead is that I have over the years defied the leadership, in particular President Kagame, on things that needed change,” Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa told a Johannesburg court. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN        (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/GettyImages)

South Africa: A safe haven for perpetrators of international crimes?

Examples from the past 10 years illustrate a growing trend to avoid or slow down extradition proceedings to other countries or transfers to international entities

Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners (Photo Archive)

Editorial: Israel must mind its own borders

‘Although it is not the first time South Africa has recalled its ambassador, this week’s move marked a more decisive response to Israeli aggression’

Prosecuting famine as a war crime faces distinct and sometimes significant obstacles.

Will seven million starving Yemenis ever find justice?

In the "war the world forgot", the international community won’t react to the human rights violations which will leave 6.8 million hungry.

The Geneva Conventions need teeth to be effective

States need an appropriate instrument to respond to serious violations of international humanitarian law, to prevent such crimes in the future.