war crimes
- Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
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…
- Categories: Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- 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…
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 21, 2022
This week, a United Nations agency released a damning report on how plastics are damaging our world and harming the people in it. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • November 30, 2018
The recent attack by a militia on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which seven peacekeepers were killed, highlighted a question that the Security Council has hesitated to confront for years. What are the consequences when UN peacekeeping…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
In a year in which swaths of territory were liberated in Iraq and Syria from the grip of ISIS, enabling the release of women and girls and others from the extremists, the United Nations’ annual report on conflict-related sexual…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
It is widely believed that the Allied powers were in the dark about the “final solution” — the Nazi campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews — until the discovery of the death camps, strewn with corpses and emaciated inmates, at…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
- Shanti Sattler
- • May 28, 2014
LONDON — Crimes of sexual violence consistently result from large-scale conflict and war around the world. Rape and enforced prostitution, among other gender-based crimes, are used as a tool to enhance violence and domination and to spread fear among…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Navi Pillay
- • November 4, 2013
There is now overwhelming evidence that conflicts exacerbate pre-existing gender discrimination and put women and girls at heightened risk of sexual, physical and psychological violence. One appalling example of this evidence is the report recently to the Human…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 14, 2012
Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese militant accused of war crimes by recruiting child soldiers under age 15 to fight in conflicts in the eastern region of his country, has been found guilty of the war crimes by a three-judge chamber…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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