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Greenland between decolonization, the US, and international responses
By Astrid Nonbo Andersen + Rachael Lorna Johnstone
President Trump’s threats to annex Greenland disrupt a long process of decolonization from Denmark. The authors examine what Greenland can do, legally, to oppose US annexation demands and defend the right to self-determination.
Greenland (an autonomous territory dependent on Denmark), from Donald Trump's threats of annexation to decolonisation efforts. Photo: Trump during a speech at the Davos Economic Forum (Switzerland). Behind him: an illustration depicting snow-capped mountains.
Venezuelan victims and the International Criminal Court (ICC) Victims and the ICC: "I want them to know that we still exist"
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
Luis Carlos Díaz, Elizabeth Atieno and Oleksandr Maksymenko, who are victims of atrocities in Venezuela, Kenya and Ukraine, turned to the International Criminal Court for the justice it promised. But they were disappointed. It is the victims who go to the ICC, not the ICC that goes to the victims, they say in this new podcast by our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts.
When Carl Bildt was appointed to the board of directors of Lundin Oil, he was also serving as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans. Photo : Bildt speaking at a conference. Carl Bildt: oil, peace and contradiction
By Martin Schibbye
“I do not recall.” The recurring phrase ran through his testimony, on January 15. While the testimony of Carl Bildt, a leading politician in Sweden, failed to provide decisive clarification in the Lundin trial, it did shed light on the mechanisms used to limit liability.
The trial of Roger Lumbala (DRC) in France and the principle of universal jurisdiction in international law. Image: Lumbala appears as a black silhouette against a grey background, sitting at a desk. He speaks with his hands raised and wears a beret. Universal Jurisdiction as Justice: the Lumbala trial in question
By Kerstin Bree Carlson
The trial of Lumbala before a Paris court ended last year with a heavy conviction. It raises issues relating to universal jurisdiction trials in an even more acute manner, given that the defendant refused to attend his trial.
What justice for Venezuela? Photo: Protesters hold up photos of their relatives, who are political prisoners, in the street. Three scenarios for justice in Venezuela
By María Laura Chang
Besides the U.S. criminal system, investigations are being carried out in Argentina, and before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. How does the capture of the former head of state Nicolás Maduro influence these processes?
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Lafarge on Trial – Part 6: What the French prosecution is asking and what the United States obtained In partnership with Justice Info, international law professor Sharon Weill and 11 students at Sciences Po Paris have provided weekly coverage of the Lafarge trial taking place in the French capital. The trial ends on December 19.
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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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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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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.
Is the death of the ICC imminent? And what does the future hold for international law? Two renowned experts, Mark Freeman and Mark Drumbl, examine these two topical issues. Illustration: Drumbl and Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq.
Thinking about the death of the ICC and what comes next
7 February 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
Beyond the US sanctions, what led to the possible demise of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Was the model and the supremacy of criminal law just misled from the start? And if the ICC falls off the cliff, what’s next? What’s the place and future of international law? Two-long time...
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26 September 2025
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