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Reporting atrocities, a testimony from Bucha: As in most conflicts, local and international journalists are often frontline witnesses of crimes. In this new podcast by our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners, Danny Kemp,…
Darfur crimes on trial at the ICC: In this podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts, Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, are discussing the first trial to open before the International…
Guatemala: How indigenous women beat paramilitaries: Despite all odds, Guatemala’s highest court has sentenced five former paramilitary soldiers to 30 years in jail for raping 36 indigenous Maya Achi women during…
Russia vs Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights: Did Russia have territorial control of eastern Ukraine when Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014? This was one of the hot issues discussed this…
Legal battlefields on Myanmar: Multiple and very diverse procedures are undergoing to address the crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingyas. The proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are…
How to read Karim Khan’s new directions: While indecision prevailed under Fatou Bensouda’s regime, who left a pile of unanswered issues on her desk, the new International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim…
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…