International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
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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 violence …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
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- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 28, 2018
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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 human-rights …
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women
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- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 15, 2018
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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 respect …
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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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 the …
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
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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 60,000 …
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
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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 the …
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016
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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 as …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 24, 2016
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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 other …
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 30, 2016
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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 from …
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2014
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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 …
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2014
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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 …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice, Women
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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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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • June 11, 2014
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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 …
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, International Justice, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2014
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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 civic …
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
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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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