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Lundin in Swedish court pipeline for war crimes: Last week, Sweden indicted two oil executives from Swedish oil company Lundin Energy for aiding and abetting war crimes in South Sudan between 1999 and…
Why the two ICC deputy prosecutors should be women: Can the “ICC boys’ club problem” be solved by the ongoing election of two deputy prosecutors to assist new chief prosecutor Karim Khan? To tackle…
The ever expanding drone wars: Drone attacks are a common feature of contemporary wars – and growingly outside conflicts. In the past 20 years, the U.S. has carried out more…
Bringing justice home in Kosovo: For more than 20 years, victims in Kosovo told their stories to UN prosecutors and lawyers, to EU judges, again and again. They experienced first-hand…
Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a “big deal”: In the middle of the summer, a trial of considerable historical and symbolic significance for the Iranians opened in Sweden. That of one Iranian prison official, alleged…
Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence: Over the past few months, several mass and unmarked graves have been identified near former residential schools for indigenous children in Canada. Such institutions were…
Afghanistan victims in limbo: Twenty years after their invasion, US troops are leaving Afghanistan, and the Talibans are back, controlling 85% of the country already. For the many Afghan…
Social media as new evidence in war crimes: “To my mind, the advent of social media is as big a breakthrough for evidence and legal proceedings as finger printing,” says Yvonne McDermott Rees, professor…
Karim Khan – leaving an investigative team for a court: “At UNITAD, we are an investigative team on the lookout for a court,” says British lawyer Karim Khan after having led the Daesh / ISIL…
Who is Abd-al-Rahman?: The ICC Prosecutor calls him « the colonel of colonels » of the Janjaweed militia that committed genocidal killings in the Sudan region of Darfur in 2003-2004.…
Fatou Bensouda: “History will judge us”: Fatou Bensouda has given one of her last interviews as outgoing International Criminal Court Prosecutor to our correspondents and partners Asymmetrical Haircuts in The Hague.…
The scandal of the “banished babies” in Ireland: Over several decades and into the 1970’s, thousands of unmarried women were forced into mother and baby homes run by the church or the state…
Ntaganda, Gbagbo, Al-Mahdi: decoding two appeal decisions and a symbolic reparation at the ICC: This week at the International Criminal Court has been rich in – mostly symbolic – important events: the confirmation of the acquittal of former Ivorian…
How the military coup in Myanmar impacts international justice: A year ago Aung San Suu Kyi was in The Hague defending Myanmar against accusations of genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Now…
ICC: How to interpret Ongwen’s conviction?: Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict,…
Victims and the ICC Alphabet Soup: Can victim’s participation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) remain a « nice feature » and could victims envisage in the future to see clarity in « the…
ICC: a look back at the last Assembly of the States Parties: With this new podcast, you will be able to look back at the latest Assembly of States Parties, that you may have missed or followed…
Why the Koblenz trial is an exception?: In the field of universal jurisdiction, successes are rare and deserve to be closely watched, as Justice Info does in a first video of its…
Australia’s wake-up call on war crimes: Execution of prisoners, a “blooding” practice where subordinates are ordered to kill out-of-action enemy combatants, a system of covering up war crimes, and “collective blindness”…