International Court of Justice
- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • May 29, 2022
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Former United States President George W. Bush’s unwitting truth is as tragic as it is hypocritical. The “absence of checks and balances in Russia,” he said recently, has resulted in “the decision of one man to launch a wholly…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • March 7, 2022
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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…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 21, 2020
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Exactly one year ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on Britain to return the Chagos Archipelago, a cluster of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, an island-nation off the southeast coast…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, General Assembly, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Akila Radhakrishnan
- • January 21, 2020
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Last month, the world was struck by an unusual image — that of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi — standing in court to defend and deny genocide. What was striking was not only what she…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Susan Hutchinson
- • November 25, 2019
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The recent case lodged by The Gambia with the International Court of Justice against Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya is the first time that rape will be prosecuted as genocide at the court, which is based in The Hague….
- Categories: International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Bertrand Ramcharan
- • August 20, 2018
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The soul of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being destroyed with the disappearance of human-rights justice in the world. Everyone should be concerned if not frightened. The appointment of Michelle Bachelet of Chile as UN high…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 7, 2018
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The United Nations Charter requires each and every member state to discharge its obligations by faithfully carrying out norms of legally binding international human-rights law. These may be norms of international customary law, those contained in treaties or those…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 1, 2017
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As the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq crumbles, assessments begin to emerge of the damage left in its wake by its cultural nihilism and harsh sectarian absolutism designed to remake an Arab society. The human costs have been…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council, Terrorism, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2013
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The saga of Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has been stuck in limbo in North Africa for decades, will receive its annual nod this month by the United Nations Security Council, but this time actual changes may be…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council
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- Opinion by Jayantha Dhanapala
- • January 17, 2013
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KANDY, Sri Lanka — As the focus of global political and economic power shifts to the Asia-Pacific region and the United States feels compelled to pivot its strategic forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the relationship among major…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 20, 2011
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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
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