International Criminal Court
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 3, 2023
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Britain is concentrating on the use and regulation of artificial intelligence as a top-priority debate while it leads the United Nations Security Council in July. The agenda reflects part of the country’s plans for building control in the evolving digital …
- Categories: Refugees, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 26, 2023
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This week, the UN boss told the world’s richest countries, meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, that the Security Council and the Bretton Woods financial system both need reforming. Were they listening? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
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- Opinion by Ban Ki-moon
- • April 23, 2023
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A year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the search for a credible path towards peace, based on the United Nations Charter, is ever more urgent. At the same time, mounting evidence of war crimes and atrocities committed by Russian …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Dawn Clancy
- • March 21, 2023
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LONDON — In seeking justice and accountability for alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, urged United Nations member states to stay focused on “the suffering of humanity” and to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 20, 2023
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The International Criminal Court has just issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, for the alleged crime of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of the country to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 18, 2023
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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 setting …
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
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KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and militarization …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 20, 2022
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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 the …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 18, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War, Women as Changemakers
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2022
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Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights of …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • April 18, 2022
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- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, 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 an …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 18, 2021
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As the International Criminal Court begins an investigation into the thousands of extrajudicial killings committed by the Philippine government during its antidrug campaign, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is partnering with the country on …
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice
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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 dead. …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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