crime of aggression

Trending UN News: Week Ending Jan. 20

Damilola Banjo
• January 20, 2023

This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the…

Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Libya, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

The Time to Prosecute Top Russians for the Crime of Aggression Is Now, Says a War Tribunal Expert

Dawn Clancy
• January 18, 2023

Hans Corell knows how to establish war crime tribunals. The Swede is a former top legal expert for the United Nations who served under Secretaries-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan and, on behalf of the institution, was instrumental in…

Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Security Council, US-UN Relations

UN Diplomats Negotiate First Steps to Try Russia for Crimes of Aggression

Dawn Clancy
• December 20, 2022

For months, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, alongside Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy, have been leading an effort at the UN to produce a draft resolution to support the notion of establishing an international tribunal to prosecute…

Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, International Justice, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, US-UN Relations

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Putin Can Be Charged Personally for Carnage in Ukraine, Legal Experts Say

Yasuhiro Ueki
• March 7, 2022

Russia’s unprovoked military attack on Ukraine meets the definition of “act of aggression,” as defined by the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute, which is the legal basis of the ICC, states in its Article 8 bis 2 that…