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- Dawn Clancy
- • May 23, 2023
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TALLINN, Estonia –– Efforts to create a special tribunal to try Russian leaders for the crime of aggression in Ukraine is exposing a deepening divide between the Group of 7 countries and their European allies over how to…
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 12, 2023
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This week, the UN tries to get food and other essentials to Sudanese people as the two generals keep up the chaos. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, ICC, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 4, 2023
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Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, described the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against President Vladimir Putin as “stupid.” Nebenzia said this while taking questions from journalists during his briefing as rotating president of…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 24, 2023
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This week, we report on Russia getting its first hint that it might someday be held accountable for its territorial assault on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
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- Dawn Clancy
- • March 21, 2023
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LONDON — In seeking justice and accountability for alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, urged United Nations member states to stay focused on “the suffering of humanity” and…
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 20, 2023
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The International Criminal Court has just issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, for the alleged crime of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of the country…
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
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This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 18, 2023
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Hans Corell knows how to establish war crime tribunals. The Swede is a former top legal expert for the United Nations who served under Secretaries-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan and, on behalf of the institution, was instrumental in…
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
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The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are…
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- Rhona Scullion
- • October 29, 2018
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In the early morning of Tuesday, April 3, 2018, a temporary United Nations peacekeeping base in the village of Tagbara, in the Central African Republic, was attacked by rebel militia groups. One peacekeeper was killed and 11 others were…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Keith Porter
- • May 8, 2017
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We stand on the shoulders of those who created the international order, which has prevented world war for more than 70 years. “American leaders who laid foundations of the contemporary world order envisioned a world in which all peoples…
- Categories: ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016
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THE HAGUE — At the glassy, eco-minded new building of the International Criminal Court here in the Netherlands’ capital, people who are being tried may still be called “detainees,” but make no mistake: they remain accused of such atrocities…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 24, 2016
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South Africa’s announcement on Oct. 21 that it intends to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, has met strong opposition from civil society groups in that country and…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2015
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The Palestinians have deposited copies of the legal instruments to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s single permanent judicial body to try war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. If Palestine is accepted as a…
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2014
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The Palestinians’ failed proposal to formally establish a state and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017 through a vote in the United Nations Security Council on Dec. 30 continued to reflect the immense influence of…
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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