International Justice
- Dawn Clancy
- • March 21, 2023
LONDON — In seeking justice and accountability for alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Karim Kahn, 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
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 20, 2023
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
- 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
- Dawn Clancy
- • December 20, 2022
For months, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, alongside Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy, have been leading an effort at the UN to produce a draft resolution to support the notion of establishing an international tribunal to prosecute…
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 21, 2022
This week, a United Nations agency released a damning report on how plastics are damaging our world and harming the people in it. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Dawn Clancy
- • October 18, 2022
Documenting the “dozens of thousands” of Russia’s war crimes that have been committed so far in Ukraine isn’t a problem for Oleksandra Matviichuk, a human-rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv. But having a fully developed international…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War, Women as Changemakers
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2022
It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law,…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 2, 2022
The lack of accountability on a range of human-rights abuses and atrocities committed by countries and others across the world will be highlighted during Albania’s first open debate as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month….
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 12, 2022
For decades, amid genocidal wars and gender violence that tore apart the lives and bodies of girls and women, Denis Mukwege, facing repeated threats to his own life, worked as a medical doctor in poor, broken communities in the…
- Categories: International Justice, Uncategorized, Women
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 18, 2021
As the International Criminal Court begins an investigation into the thousands of extrajudicial killings committed by the Philippine government during its antidrug campaign, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is partnering with the country…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice
- Clair MacDougall
- • October 11, 2021
As a lawyer, Beth Jacob has represented both victims of the 9/11 attacks and the men imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay suspected of committing terrorism against the United States. A New Yorker now living in Washington, D.C., her Guantánamo clients…
- Categories: International Justice, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 14, 2021
The world watched on Jan. 6, 2021, as thousands of the most extreme supporters of President Donald Trump marched on the United States Capitol after hearing his rallying cry to “fight” and “take back” the country. Inside the Capitol,…
- David J. Scheffer
- • April 26, 2020
As the new coronavirus disease, Covid-19, continues to threaten lives and livelihoods around the world, many people are seeking to hold government and corporate leaders to account for their blunders during the pandemic. But in the United States and…
- Categories: Covid-19, International Justice
- Akila Radhakrishnan
- • January 21, 2020
Last month, the world was struck by an unusual image — that of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi — standing in court to defend and deny genocide. What was striking was not only what she…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
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