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Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:

Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”

Klaus Hoffmann is a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes, a joint project of the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom that supports Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Office in investigating and prosecuting war crimes. He visited Dnipro, Eastern Ukraine, in mid-November, where he was […]

By Olga Zhuravel (in Dnipro, Ukraine / "Zlochyn.dp.ua")

Can Joseph Boakai, Liberia's new president, be seen as a hope for justice for past war crimes? Photo: Boakai stands on a platform in front of a crowd of supporters during his election campaign.

Liberia has a new president: is there renewed hope for justice?

Palau

On the sea frontline of climate change

Israel & Gaza international law - Photo: a palestinian refugee camp in Gaza destroyed by an israeli air strike.

Israel and Gaza: what if the law of war had a say?

Why Argentina prosecutes crimes in Venezuela

Air strike on Gaza

Bitter law in Palestine

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), at the request of the Netherlands and Canada, examines systematic torture in Syria

The law and the spectacle of the law

Justice in Chile for Pinochet's crimes - Photo: Uruguayan demonstrators celebrate Pinochet's arrest in 1998.

Chile’s ‘Pinochet Cases’ at 25: an ongoing sea change

George Weah, the President of Liberia, is keeping silent and leaving the truth about the war crimes he denounced at the start of his term of office on hold.

George Weah’s politics of silence

In Angola, stormy reconciliation between UNITA and government - Photo of a battalion of soldiers in 1982.

Polarized reconciliation in Angola

September 28 trial, one year on - When the trial opened in 2022 in Conakry (Guinea), did the victims' relatives have any idea of the scale the trial would take?

28 September massacre in Guinea: evaluating the trial one year on

Herero genocide in Namibia - Propaganda painting showing German soldiers confronting Herero fighters.

A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory

Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game?

The Lundin trial could worry multinationals - Bubbles in an oil puddle in Sudan.

Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"

Oil pump

The Lundin moment

1st judgement of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic - Issa Sallet Adoum watches Mahamat Tahir, lying on the floor, weakened by a hunger strike. These are 2 of the 3 defendants on trial.

CAR: how Special Criminal Court appeal judges innovated and proposed a model

Truth Commission in Norway - A woman poses in traditional Sami clothing.

Will Norway’s truth and reconciliation process bring change?

Prigozhin is dead, will Wagner’s crimes remain unpunished?

Colonialism and decolonization in Switzerland - Hans Himmelheber poses near his mask collection.

Switzerland: the art of decolonizing a country without colonies