Fatou Bensouda
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 5, 2020
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The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; the United States sanctions the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; dissecting the failed ambitions of the US effort to force the UN mission in Lebanon to be…
- Categories: Middle East, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 20, 2019
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In this season of giving, the United States delegation offered free bourbon from Kentucky to the media and is splurging on a holiday party paid for by Kelly Knight Craft, the US ambassador, while in more serious business at…
- Categories: LGBT, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Susan Manuel
- • December 27, 2017
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The horrific attack on United Nations peacekeepers from Tanzania in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in early December and the ensuing hours-long battle was a severe blow to one of the UN’s more prized forces, leaving 15 soldiers…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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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…
- 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…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, International Justice
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- Opinion by Janet Benshoof
- • April 16, 2015
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It was a year ago this week that the terrorist group Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) not long ago, carried out a late-night abduction of 276 girls from their boarding…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 23, 2015
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Chad is not only leading the regional military assault on the Boko Haram terrorist group but it is also said to be leading the drafting of a United Nations Security Council resolution to authorize the multinational task force in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2014
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The Palestinians’ failed proposal to formally establish a state and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017 through a vote in the United Nations Security Council on Dec. 30 continued to reflect the immense influence of…
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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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…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 19, 2013
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 24, 2013
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Joseph Kony, the notorious Ugandan warlord who has been on the run in the central African bush for years, may be hiding and ready to surrender in the Central African Republic as the United Nations is most likely to…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Alice Speri
- • September 28, 2013
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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
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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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 22, 2012
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Brigid Inder has been named the special gender adviser to Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, or the ICC. With more than two decades of working in international and domestic justice, women’s human rights and…
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