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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 the …
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 19, 2014
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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, …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 13, 2014
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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 …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 19, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
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- Alice Speri
- • September 28, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Middle East, Security Council
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- Sierra Ortega
- • September 17, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice
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- Sierra Ortega
- • July 24, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: Asia, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 8, 2013
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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 …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 22, 2013
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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. …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 5, 2013
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Gert Rosenthal does not sound like a Spanish name, but the mother of Rosenthal, the Guatemalan ambassador to the United Nations, was born there and his father was German. To complicate matters, “a little accident happened,” he said, as his …
- Categories: ICC, Security Council, UN Diplomats
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 21, 2013
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The president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, told a Columbia University audience recently that a major challenge facing the court is what he called a steady lack of political support from the United Nations Security Council …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
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One of Fatou Bensouda‘s missions as the new chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is to make rape during conflicts a thing of the past. Until 20 years ago, she said in a speech at the United Nations recently, …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2012
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Less than two decades ago, this is what happened to a huge African country once known as Zaire: Rebels backed by Rwanda’s recently installed, ethnic Tutsi-led government moved out of their strongholds in the eastern flank of the country and …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2012
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Important progress in controlling the mining of tin, tantalum and tungsten in the troubled eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo has been achieved, says a report from the Enough Project, a Washington nonprofit group focused on Africa. Yet renewed …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC, Peace and Security
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- Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
- • October 16, 2012
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The conclusion of the International Criminal Court’s first trial this summer was duly noted in global media and political circles. Yet little attention was paid to the equally landmark move by the court mandating reparations for victims of the atrocities …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice
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