
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
Never before have hospitals and healthcare workers been so targeted in conflicts. In this new podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts asked Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer at the ICRC, to explain why and how IHL provides hospitals with the highest level of protection.

By Hannah El-Hitami
In post-Assad Syria, the “truth tents” offer a space for victims’ families to discuss truth and justice. Jad al-Hamada, one of the truth tents’ initiators, speaks to Justice Info about the demand for transitional justice in Syria.

By Alannah Travers
To understand the justifications given for Israeli and American strikes against Iran, one must look at Iraq and Syria, where a permissive environment for the crime of aggression we are witnessing today was modeled, explains Alannah Travers.
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The invaders return
7 March 2025
by Thierry Cruvellier
More and more countries – Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela – are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without admitting. The world order established in 1945 is obsolete, and international law is being violated without a second thought. Here is a world map of the new annexations under way and those that are openly threatened.

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...

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.
Syria
Life sentence for a Syrian doctor
16 June 2025
Palestine
ICC: Shall we talk about the West Bank?
10 June 2025
Dem. Rep. Of Congo
DRC victims’ fund hit by scandal
20 June 2025
International justice news, according to AFP
2 July 2025
Bangladesh's fugitive ex-leader sentenced to six months
2 July 2025
China says Premier Li to visit Brazil for BRICS summit and Egypt
2 July 2025
Australian inquiry finds Indigenous people faced genocide
1 July 2025
Eritrea rearming risks regional destabilisation: US NGO
1 July 2025
Fugitive Bangladesh ex-PM denies crimes against humanity charges
1 July 2025
Raw wounds and laughter as Rwanda genocide play taken to villages
1 July 2025
Bangladesh: uprising, unrest and elections
30 June 2025
Palestine Action to challenge UK ban
30 June 2025
'Targeted, sophisticated' cyberattack hits ICC
30 June 2025
Bangladesh opens murder trial of key student protester
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