The envisaged court would prosecute kleptocrats and corrupt officials and have powers to repatriate money stolen during incidents such as state capture
Remaining in the International Criminal Court would demonstrate real commitment to victims of the gravest crimes
Judge Goldstone’s partial recantation of a UN-sponsored report on Israel’s invasion of Gaza has predictably divided the local Jewish community.
The UN has roundly rebuffed remarks by South African judge Richard Goldstone that cast doubt on the report into the Gaza war.
The judge’s recent remarks about his finding against Israel highlight inherent bias at the UN.
Judge Goldstone’s partial recantation of a UN-sponsored report on Israel’s invasion of Gaza has divided the local Jewry amid claims he was "bullied".
The UN has roundly rebuffed remarks by the South African judge Richard Goldstone that cast doubt on the report into the Gaza war.
Israelis do not forgive his initial findings, but Richard Goldstone’s United Nations report is a powerful deterrent against a repeat of the war.
Israel demanded on Sunday that the United Nations bin a report critical of its deadly 2008-2009 offensive on Gaza.
Israel on Sunday demanded the retraction of a United Nations report deeply critical of its deadly 2008-2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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/ 28 September 2010
The criticism that the International Criminal Court was against African countries was unfair, Judge Richard Goldstone said on Monday.
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein declined this week to meet Justice Richard Goldstone to discuss the report on the 2008 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Richard Goldstone, the former war crimes prosecutor, is being forced to meet South African Jewish leaders to hear of their anger over a UN report.
Judge Richard Goldstone would attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah in Johannesburg next month, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Friday evening.
The barring of Judge Richard Goldstone from his grandson’s bar mitzvah was profoundly sad, said former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs.
Former Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone will be allowed to attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah next month, the SA Zionist Federation said.
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/ 10 February 2010
Former chief justice Arthur Chaskalson and advocate George Bizos recently defended the record and integrity of their friend Judge Richard Goldstone.
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/ 4 November 2009
In the Gaza Strip Richard Goldstone’s name is sewn on to souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his controversial war inquiry.
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/ 22 October 2009
Richard Goldstone challenged the US on Thursday to justify its charge that findings of a report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes were flawed.
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/ 20 October 2009
Israeli ministers will discuss whether to set up an investigation into the Gaza war, officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 October 2009
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in their December-January conflict.
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/ 16 October 2009
Israel may face further diplomatic embarrassment on Friday as the UN votes on endorsing a report accusing the Jewish state and Hamas of war crimes.
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/ 14 October 2009
Israel braced on Wednesday for what is expected to be a bruising UN debate on a report that accuses the Jewish state and Hamas of war crimes.
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/ 29 September 2009
A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East has reached ”crisis point”, a UN human rights investigator said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 September 2009
The attacks on organisations investigating Israel’s Gaza offensive confirm that the Jewish state cannot tolerate reasonable criticism
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/ 18 September 2009
The United Nations inquiry into last winter’s Gaza war was a ”fixed game”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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/ 18 September 2009
The betrayal of Caster Semenya at the hands of those who should have protected her must rank among one of the cruellest acts ever.
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/ 17 September 2009
The head of the UN commission that this week issued a damning report on the Gaza War has rejected Israeli criticism that it was biased.
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/ 16 September 2009
Israel on Wednesday launched a campaign to block what it said were the ”perverse and noxious effects” of a UN report that accused it on war crimes.
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/ 16 September 2009
Both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, during the December-January Gaza war.
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/ 15 September 2009
There is evidence that both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the Gaza conflict, the UN said on Tuesday.
Israel has informed the UN it will refuse to cooperate with a probe of war crimes allegedly committed during the military offensive in the Gaza Strip.