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Lundin: The security chiefs’ failing memories
By Martin Schibbye
They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet twenty-five years later, in the Lundin trial in Stockholm, the oil company’s former security chiefs remember almost nothing.
Lundin trial in Sweden for alleged war crimes committed in South Sudan (formerly Sudan). Photo: Soldiers from the SPLA rebel group brandish their weapons.
Lafarge trial in France (for crimes committed in Syria). Painting (watercolor) depicting the empty dock, where defense attorneys pile their coats. Lafarge on Trial - part 1: A trial unlike any other
By Sharon Weil and the students of the Capston Course (Sciences Po Paris)
In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial.
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
By Justice Info
The Lafarge trial, which is being held from November 4 to December 19, 2025, in a court in Paris, is addressing unusual questions about the criminal liability of companies operating in war zones.
Dennis van Berkel “The most conscious step was to take climate change to national courts”
By Benjamin Bibas
The COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel, co-founder of the Climate Litigation Network, reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has trickled up to the international level.
Women wearing burqas in Afghanistan Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan
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There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.
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Lundin: The security chiefs’ failing memories They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet twenty-five years later, in the Lundin trial in Stockholm, the oil company’s former security chiefs remember almost nothing.
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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
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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...
In Kasai (Democratic Republic of Congo), some trials are held in mobile courts, in the heart of the villages, as close as possible to the crimes and the victims. Photo: Protected witnesses are covered from head to toe during a trial for war crimes committed by members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
In Kasai, justice on the ground and under protection
6 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
After several postponements, the appeal trial of two men sentenced to death for war crimes committed in the Congolese region of Kasai opened in the town of Masuika on March 3. The entire court traveled to the crime site. To hear the often protected witnesses, near the very place where was committed the murder of a traditional chief and the devastation caused by the Kamwina Nsapu conflict between 2016 and 2019.
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