Bosco Ntaganda
- 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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- 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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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
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For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN Organization …
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2013
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Two innovative women from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where violence against women and girls has been harsh and unrelenting through years of lawlessness and civil conflict, came to New York in early March with a message of …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 22, 2013
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Bosco Ntaganda, whom the United States calls “one of the most notorious and brutal rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” has arrived at the International Criminal Court in The Hague after being transported by court officials from Rwanda. …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2012
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Less than two decades ago, this is what happened to a huge African country once known as Zaire: Rebels backed by Rwanda’s recently installed, ethnic Tutsi-led government moved out of their strongholds in the eastern flank of the country and …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2012
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Important progress in controlling the mining of tin, tantalum and tungsten in the troubled eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo has been achieved, says a report from the Enough Project, a Washington nonprofit group focused on Africa. Yet renewed …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 30, 2012
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Justine Masika Bihamba’s work is centered in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where for about 12 years she has been fighting poverty and sexual violence, promoting peace and human rights and supporting war victims through …
- Categories: Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 10, 2012
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Thomas Lubanga, the 52-year-old Congolese militant convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers under age 15 and using them in hostilities, was sentenced today to 14 years’ …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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