International Justice
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • June 11, 2014
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,…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, International Justice, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2014
The tangled process of bringing even partial accounting and sentencing to a close in a United Nations-Cambodian joint tribunal judging the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that decimated the country’s population in the late 1970s and destroyed all…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
- 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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- 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,…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 20, 2013
Almost four decades after the ideologically crazed communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge fought its way to power in Cambodia, vowing to create a new society but instead leaving up to two million people dead in its wake,…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 31, 2013
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Peace and Security, Women
- 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…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Middle East, Security Council
- 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…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice
- 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,…
- Categories: Asia, ICC, International Justice, Women
- 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…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 14, 2013
Ieng Sary, a co-founder and the third-highest official in the murderous Khmer Rouge movement that decimated Cambodian society in the 1970s, died in a Phnom Penh hospital on March 14 at age 87. The death of Ieng Sary, who…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 21, 2013
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…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Security Council
- Jayantha Dhanapala
- • January 17, 2013
KANDY, Sri Lanka — As the focus of global political and economic power shifts to the Asia-Pacific region and the United States feels compelled to pivot its strategic forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the relationship among major…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
- • October 16, 2012
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…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice
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