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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 18, 2023

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
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021

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…
- Rhona Scullion
- • October 29, 2018

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
- Keith Porter
- • May 8, 2017

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, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016

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
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 24, 2016

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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2015

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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2014

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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 19, 2014

As Sunni Muslim extremists first seized strategic cities in Iraq last week, and a United Nations spokesman for the human-rights high commissioner, Navi Pillay, said that rapes had been part of the mayhem, leaving four female victims dead from…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 13, 2014

The first step to possibly try Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese warlord born in Rwanda, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, began recently at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ntaganda, who turned himself in to the court…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 19, 2013

Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, has asked for a three-month postponement in the trial for the case against the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. The trial, already postponed several times,…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
- Alice Speri
- • September 28, 2013

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor – Fatou Bensouda – was busy in New York this week, rallying support for the court on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly annual debate. The Gambia native, who succeeded…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Middle East, Security Council
- Sierra Ortega
- • September 17, 2013

Radislav Krstic was indicted on Oct. 30, 1998, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his role in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Krstic was the deputy commander and chief of staff of the…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice
- Sierra Ortega
- • July 24, 2013

The International Criminal Court has just acquired a huge trove of nearly all the unrestricted records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and is now making them available to the public. The records include more than 2,240 documents,…
- Categories: Asia, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 8, 2013

The newest United Nations Security Council resolution that continues to build a stronger framework to prevent and end sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations sends a strong signal that such offenses will be punished as war crimes under…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women