International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 30, 2012
Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president who was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in April for acts committed during a civil war in the 1990s in the West African country of Sierra Leone, was sentenced today…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 30, 2012
The International Criminal Court‘s judgment against the warlord Thomas Lubanga for conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed that “a permanent international criminal court is on the job,” Stephen Rapp, ambassador at large for the…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2012
No American diplomat or scholar of international law has been more deeply involved than David Scheffer in the creation of virtually every war crimes court from the catastrophic implosion of Yugoslavia to the long-overdue reckoning for the Khmer Rouge…
- Categories: BOOKS, ICC, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 30, 2012
People who deal professionally with victims of physical and psychological torture want to not only heal their patients but also stop torture dead in its tracks. So they were pleased to learn that like other individuals or groups, they…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 20, 2011
Government suppression of revolts in several Arab nations and violence and rights abuses in some parts of Africa have drawn increased attention to the International Criminal Court, the first such permanent tribunal created to try individuals for war crimes,…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, International Justice
- Roger Nokes
- • November 7, 2011
Do you want know what happens to news reports in parts of the world after they seemingly drop from the front page? Do you get frustrated by constant coverage of certain stories at the expense of others? Do you…
- Categories: Africa, International Justice, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • October 25, 2011
The International Criminal Court has released the names of four candidates short-listed for the December 2011 election of the chief prosecutor to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine whose nonrenewable term is expiring in June 2012. The court is the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, ICC, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 21, 2011
[This essay was updated on Nov. 23, 2011] The United Nations sent its top legal official to Cambodia this week in a belated effort to deal directly with the threatened implosion of a war crimes tribunal charged with bringing…
- Categories: International Justice, WORLDVIEWS
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