International Justice
- Akila Radhakrishnan
- • August 10, 2018
It has been four years since ISIS launched its genocidal assault on the Yazidi community in the Middle East. ISIS fighters have faced terrorism charges in Iraq and abroad, yet not a single ISIS fighter has been prosecuted for,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • May 17, 2018
As World War II ended and the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded before a stunned humanity, the victims, their families and people of good will sought to construct a new world order of justice grounded in recognition of inalienable…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 19, 2018
While slavery and inhumane practices have still not been eradicated, the United Nations has done much to expose them and to help stamp them out. Its efforts continue. Early after its establishment, the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights carried…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
In a year in which swaths of territory were liberated in Iraq and Syria from the grip of ISIS, enabling the release of women and girls and others from the extremists, the United Nations’ annual report on conflict-related sexual…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 28, 2018
There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 15, 2018
Indigenous people, several millions of them, live in more than 80 countries and have long suffered, and continue to suffer, from injustices. Until 1981, they had no global forum in which to appear to plead for justice and for…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
It is widely believed that the Allied powers were in the dark about the “final solution” — the Nazi campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews — until the discovery of the death camps, strewn with corpses and emaciated inmates, at…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
- 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
- • June 30, 2016
China plans to reject a ruling that is due on July 12 from a Hague arbitration court regarding a long-simmering territorial dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea. In an exclusive interview with an official…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2014
The highest panel of judges on the joint United Nations-Cambodian government tribunal on crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime have cleared the way for a second trial of two top leaders of the Communist movement that devastated the…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2014
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — “Please don’t let the world forget us again.” The plea is heard everywhere by men as well as by women in the picturesque Balkan city of Sarajevo, the site of Europe’s most destructive…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice, Women
- 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
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