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Human Rights for Western Sahara?; a Cease-Fire Comes to Central African Republic; Weapons Spending Drives Gender Inequalities

• 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 reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is …

Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Agencies, UN Special Envoys, US-UN Relations

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UN Peacekeepers Murdered on Duty Die in Obscurity

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 injured in the fighting. Soon after, the UN also discovered the bodies of 21 civilians, …

Africa, ICC, UN Peacekeeping

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Is Global Cooperation Over? Midwesterners Assess the Trends

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 might pursue shared peace, prosperity and dignity. They hoped to forge a global community under …

ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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Checking on the Health of the International Criminal Court

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 as murder, torture and child-soldier recruitment as well as gang-raping women and girls. It’s business …

Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice

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South African Decision to Quit the ICC Draws Critics in Africa and Beyond

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 other African and international human-rights organizations. Africa has played major roles in the independent court, …

Africa, ICC, International Justice

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Palestinians Sign the International Court Treaty, Hoping to See Israel Tried

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 member of the court, it will be the 123rd state party to do so. Until now, …

ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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Palestinians Move Fast to Join the ICC as Bid for Full Statehood Fails at the UN

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 the United States on the Palestinians’ ability to assert themselves through the world body. The …

ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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New Protocols and Policies Tackle Sexual Violence in War

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 suicide, the first global conference to end such heinous crimes took place in London. There, …

Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women

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Congolese Rebel Leader Faces Broad Charges of Sex Crimes

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 last year by going to the United States Embassy in Rwanda, allegedly committed the crimes …

Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women

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ICC Prosecutor Asks to Postpone Trial Against Kenyan President

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, was to have started on Feb. 5, 2014. Kenyatta was accused of being an indirect …

Africa, ICC, International Justice

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The International Criminal Court Fends Off ‘Ferocious’ Attack, Prosecutor Says

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 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine, to head the prosecutor’s office, talked exclusively to PassBlue about her …

Africa, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Middle East, Security Council

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Nobody Wants This Bosnian Serb War Criminal

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 Bosnian Serb Army from October 1994 to July 1995, when he was promoted to major …

ICC, International Justice

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UN War Crimes Archives Trove Released to International Court

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, totaling about 22,000 pages of meeting minutes, working documents, research documents and war crimes trial …

Asia, ICC, International Justice, Women

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Rape as a Weapon of War? It’s Still in Business

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 international law. The resolution, agreed by a unanimous vote after difficult negotiations, passed on June …

ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women

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Notorious African Rebel Lands in International Court Hands

Dulcie Leimbach

• March 22, 2013

Bosco Ntaganda, whom the United States calls “one of the most notorious and brutal rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” has arrived at the International Criminal Court in The Hague after being transported by court officials from Rwanda. Ntaganda is a Congolese warlord who has been operating with impunity in eastern Congo …