The council has urged governments, institutions and churches to commit to the principles of justice under international law and ethics against Israel’s war against Palestinian
From Nuremberg to The Hague and Rwanda to Gaza, author traces the relentless pursuit of justice for humanity’s darkest crimes
The United Nations Security Council needs reform. The US has, since 1946, exercised its veto more than 80 times, many of those to block resolutions critical of Israel
The invasion and occupation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the extraction of its natural resources, which amounts to industrial-scale theft, must be stopped
Raping women and beheading children is not a struggle for human rights or freedom, it is a massacre
Alieu Kosiah maintains he is innocent and has requested a full acquittal
The US is attempting to help Kyiv’s war effort while not being seen as a direct belligerent
The fact that mass killings should still take place in our modern world shows that we need to do more to oppose it
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
A decade after the photojournalist’s death his family wants his remains found and to know the circumstances in which he died
The cycles of violence can be broken by the truth, reparations and guarantees of peace for the victims of the war
Amnesty International has released a report that implicates Al-Shabaab, the military and mercenaries in atrocities in Cabo Delgado province
On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book,…
Explosive witness testimony from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda implicates Paul Kagame and the RPF in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 genocide.
International crimes must be prosecuted and domestic jurisdictions are well placed to do this. Domestic prosecutions based on universal jurisdiction are on the rise
Washington threatened a veto if the text spoke of reproductive rights
Between 2015 and the end of 2017, South Africa transferred $62-million worth of major conventional weapons to the UAE
A militia leader from the Central African Republic has been extradited to the International Criminal Court in The Hague
The commission will hold witness hearings into Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year era of oppression, opening the way to prosecuting those responsible
Liberians are asking why the government has failed to prosecute those responsible for atrocities committed during Liberia’s two civil wars
