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Trump on Venezuela: the rule of law is naked, let’s not talk about it
By Stefan Wolff
Donald Trump a célébré la nouvelle année en marquant « son » territoire et en ouvrant la porte à un nouveau partage du monde entre Washington, Moscou et Pékin. L’Europe, tétanisée, prend acte de la mort du droit.
Trump, Venezuela and international law - The US president speaks at a press conference on the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
In New York (USA), Pedro Reyes, who claims to have been a victim of violence under Nicolás Maduro's regime, holds up a sign showing the injuries he allegedly suffered. He is accompanied by Javier, who also fled Venezuela to come to the United States. Maduro: how can justice be served when the prosecutor is the occupying force?
By Alannah Travers
By securing their defendant through illegal military force, the US has also stolen the prospect of accountability for Nicolás Maduro’s victims, analyses the author of this Op-ed.
Nicolas Maduro (President of Venezuela) looks into the distance through binoculars. Maduro captured, but what about justice? 
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
In this timely podcast from Asymmetrical Haircuts, two experts point out the satisfaction of many Venezuelans at seeing the head of state arrested. They also discuss the proceedings for international crimes allegedly committed under his regime, and hopes for a new dynamic beyond the US show of force.
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP: the transitional justice criminal mechanism) sentenced retired Colonel Hernán Mejía to 20 years in prison. Photo: Mejía speaks into a microphone. In the background, a sign displays the JEP logo. Colonel Mejía’s conviction and the countdown for transitional justice
By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
With the conviction of Colonel Mejía, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) issued one of its most important decisions. But the clock is ticking for Colombia’s transitional justice.
In Finland, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo and Tuomas Aslak Juuso (from the Sami Parliament) met to receive the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report. Photo: Orpo and Juuso shake hands in a packed reception hall. Juuso is wearing traditional Sami clothing. Finland's promise to the Sámi
By Otso Kortekangas
The final report of the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Finland sparked initiatives of state apology and strengthened Indigenous rights amid renewed environmental and political challenges.
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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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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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8 January 2026 CORRECTED: Trump says 'my own morality' is only restraint on global power 8 January 2026 Trump says 'my own morality' is only restraint on global power 8 January 2026 Kurds in Turkey protest over Syria Aleppo offensive 8 January 2026 Kurds protest in Turkey against Syrian's Aleppo offensive 6 January 2026 Guinea ex-security chief convicted over 2009 massacre dies 6 January 2026 Bangladesh minorities fear rising violence ahead of polls 6 January 2026 CORRECTED: Former Gaza hostage says Hamas captors sexually assaulted her 5 January 2026 Bangladesh says at least 287 killed during Hasina-era abductions 2 January 2026 Former Gaza hostage says Hamas captors sexually assaulted her 31 December 2025 Bangladesh mourns ex-PM Khaleda Zia with state funeral
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