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Lafarge trial: A step beyond Nuremberg? 
By Sharon Weill
The verdict is expected on Monday 13 April in the Lafarge trial, in which the French cement manufacturer, as a legal entity, is accused of having financed terrorist organisations in Syria, along with eight of its former executives.
Former Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont leaving the courtroom at the opening of the trial of the French cement group Lafarge and eight individuals, including former executives, accused of financing terrorism in Syria, at the Paris court.
Aleppo courthouse, with people entering the building during the first hearing of the trial on the March 2025 violence on the Syrian coast, photographed in November 2025. Aleppo trial: a test for the future of justice in Syria
By Bushra Alzoubi
In Aleppo, the trial related to violence that rocked the Syrian coast in the spring of 2025 continues, amid a mix of impatience, international pressure and procedural caution – in particular when it comes to affiliates of the new regime.
People searching a trench suspected of having been used as a mass grave, on the outskirts of Damascus, on December 16, 2024, looking for human remains. Syria: a Commission for the Missing “still at the experimental stage”
By Karam Amer
Syria’s National Commission for the Forcibly Disappeared was created in May 2025. Almost a year later, it’s facing all sorts of challenges and is already struggling to maintain both public trust and clear governmental support.
Environmental protest in Belgium for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime. Photo : Brazilian indigenous and other militants hold signs readind Ecocide: Waiting for the ICC
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
The activists who lobbied to have ecocide included in the Rome Statute will have to rely on ICC’s provisions that categorize environmental crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity. This is what explains, in this new podcast, Colombian lawyer Laura Baron-Mendoza who has contributed to a recent ICC’s policy paper on the matter.
Lundin trial in Sweden over war crimes committed in South Sudan. Photo: Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter, the two co-defendants, are seen from behind as they climb the steps of the courthouse. Prison sentences sought for the two Lundin executives
By Martin Schibbye
According to the prosecution’s conclusions, Lundin Oil’s operations in Sudan were not merely conducted in a conflict. They were intertwined with it. And Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter should be sentenced to prison for complicity in war crimes.
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“Living with US sanctions means living in constant uncertainty” A total of 11 judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the US government. Some have come public about how it's deeply affected their daily life. And it’s unclear what protection they may enjoy.
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Illustration showing a concrete mixer truck (with the Lafarge logo printed on it) stopped at a checkpoint manned by several figures dressed in black, armed and wearing balaclavas. A long arm extends from the truck, holding a suitcase filled with banknotes bearing the image of Bashar al-Assad. On the side is an ISIS flag. War and business: Lafarge in the dock
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At the Lundin trial in Sweden, two former executives of the oil company are on trial for alleged complicity in war crimes committed in Sudan. Illustration: Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter are drowned in a pool of oil. Conflict rages in the background. War and oil: Lundin in the dock
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Fighting gender-based crimes - Illustration: a crime scene (police banner and numbered exhibits) where the silhouette of a character marked on the ground is filled in with the colors of the LGBTQ+ community's rainbow flag. The Fight Against Gender Crimes
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What justice for enforced disappearances around the world? © Marina Margarina / Justice Info The disappeared who will never be forgotten
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Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a huge blood-red Félicien Kabuga, the last judgment
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Religious people (in small format) are lined up to confess in turn to the ear of a church member (in large format) who hides one eye while listening with one ear. The Church and its sexual crimes
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Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes
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“Ukraine has done itself and international law a service”
23 February 2026 by Franck Petit
After four years of war in Ukraine and a year since Donald Trump returned to power, international law seems more threatened than ever, and its role in peace negotiations is being challenged. But the example of Ukraine, which is establishing a “regional” tribunal for the crime of aggression created by the Council of Europe, shows us “a space for the extension and survival of international law even at the worst moment of its crisis,” according to Frédéric Mégret.
Justice for Syria: what are the various initiatives for justice for Syria around the world, at the national level (in Syria or elsewhere, under universal jurisdiction) or at the international level (via the ICJ and UN bodies)? Image: world map with a photo of Sednaya prison (Syria) seen from the air and a portrait of Bashar al-Assad superimposed on it.
Justice for Syria: who is doing what?
8 December 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, on 7 December 2024, the landscape of justice for grave violations of international law in Syria has transformed. Some transitional justice institutions have been established in Syria. And there have never been so many active Syrian cases under universal jurisdiction. 
Justice for Gaza: what are the various initiatives for justice for Gaza around the world, at the national and international levels (via the ICC, the ICJ, and the UN)? Image: world map with a photo of a completely destroyed street in Gaza, seen from the sky, superimposed on it.
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what?
4 November 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
It’s a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel: in January 2025, the Israeli army warned its soldiers about possible arrests when they travel abroad. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, two international courts have been seized: the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants, and the International Court of Justice, whose decisions have been supported by resolutions of the UN General Assembly. At the same time, the Human Rights Council has set up a commission, which has concluded that a “genocide” is taking place. Finally, complaints have been filed in dozens of national courts, and universal jurisdiction proceedings have been opened around the world.
In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere.
“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people”
14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya
In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.
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