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Khmer Rouge Leaders, Recently Sentenced to Life Imprisonment, Face New Genocide Charges

August 8, 2014 
by Barbara Crossette
  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 country almost four decades ago. The new trial, completely separate from the earlier proceedings against …

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Helpless Bosnia and Its Women, 20 Years After Ethnic War

July 6, 2014 
by Barbara Crossette
  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 and sadistic conflict in more than half a century. Sarajevo was briefly in the news …

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New Protocols and Policies Tackle Sexual Violence in War

June 19, 2014 
by Dulcie Leimbach
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, …

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Khmer Rouge Practiced Widespread Sexual Attacks on Minorities

June 11, 2014 
by Clothilde Le Coz
Khmer Rouge cadre
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Until now, sexual violence against ethnic minorities during the Khmer Rouge era in this country went largely ignored. Now for the first time, the Cambodian Defenders Project, one of the oldest legal aid organizations here, has published first-person accounts of interviews with 105 men and women from ethnic Vietnamese, Khmer …

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Congolese Rebel Leader Faces Broad Charges of Sex Crimes

February 13, 2014 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Bosco Ntaganda
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 …

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ICC Prosecutor Asks to Postpone Trial Against Kenyan President

December 19, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Kenyatta, president of Kenya
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 …

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Signs of Transformation From the ‘Pink Ghetto of Gender’

October 31, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Chad mother daughter
One question about women’s rights that may never go away is how to ensure that women are represented fairly in large organizations, like the United Nations. For now, work on “gender mainstreaming” may suffice by concentrating on small steps as opposed to devising wholesale solutions. As one expert has described the process, it is …

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

September 28, 2013 
by Alice Speri
Fatou Bensouda, ICC prosecutor
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 …

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UN War Crimes Archives Trove Released to International Court

July 24, 2013 
by Sierra Ortega
Nuremberg trial
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 …

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

July 8, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Security Council meets on women, peace and security: June 24, 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 …

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