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Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses.
Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 2): the painful path of going to the commissions
3 June 2025 | Reparations | France
...de Vaucresson. After an interview, the commissioners handling the case fill out a chart, which is not communicated to the victims, to assess the harm…
At his trial in Paris (France), Majdi Nema (alias ‘Islam Alloush’) was found guilty of complicity in war crimes committed in Syria. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Nema, guilty of his organization’s crimes
2 June 2025 | Universal jurisdiction | Syria
...Jaysh al-Islam’s crimes had been recognized. In its closing arguments, the defence had acknowledged the war crimes committed by the rebel group, with the exception…
Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses.
Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 1): whether or not to ask for reparation
30 May 2025 | Reparations | France
...helped get Jean-Marc Sauvé’s CIASE. Throughout the duration of the commission, I was in close contact with the chairman. He asked me to make a…
In Gaza, Darfur and elsewhere, the international definition of genocide, as set out in the 1948 Genocide Convention (which is particularly restrictive), has rarely met the victims' expectations of justice in recent conflicts. Photo: Displaced Palestinians returning to the war-torn Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, 19 January 2025.
Gaza, Darfur: What’s the point of the Genocide Convention?
27 May 2025 | Opinion | International
...international legal frameworks in offering redress for the genocidal violence the RSF are accused of in Darfur. But it is the opposite; as Sudanese civilians…
Foreign soldiers and soldiers with dual nationality serving in the Israeli army are accused of war crimes in Gaza. Photo: Israeli soldiers patrol a street in Gaza City, passing a wall on which is painted a UN logo and an inscription in Arabic.
Dual nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza
26 May 2025 | National tribunals | Palestine
...in several ways. “I think the first way is to test whether the British legal system, including the police, are serious about this issue, about…
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Majdi Nema: a trial with witnesses in absentia
23 May 2025 | Universal jurisdiction | Syria
...since “everyone has the right to a defence”. The request was rejected the following morning. In the end, only two witnesses called by the prosecution…
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
22 May 2025 | Universal jurisdiction | Sudan
A movie with Leonardo DiCaprio has made popular the words ‘blood diamond’. Here, blood oil is at the heart of the longest trial in Swedish…
Egbert Wesselink is often considered to be behind the Lundin trial in Sweden. In a report by the Dutch NGO Pax, he revealed the links between the Swedish company Lundin Oil (and 2 other oil companies) and war crimes committed in Sudan between 1990 and 2000.
Lundin: Wesselink and the dilemma of proof
22 May 2025 | Universal jurisdiction | Sudan
The trial against Lundin reveals not just the brutality of war, but also the fragility of justice mechanisms built on activism. The role of Egbert…
Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is accused of sexual misconduct. Photo : Khan manipulates an earpiece in his ear.
How Khan dramatic decision questions the ICC as an institution
20 May 2025 | ICC | International
...the ICC, covers the many questions facing the institution. “It is not an isolated incident” at the ICC, says Chaikel, despite all the reports and…
Restitution of a cultural artifact from Finland to Benin. Photo: Mari-Leena Talvitie, Finnish Minister of Science and Culture, hands over a royal stool formerly looted by France to Benin's Minister of Tourism and Culture, Jean-Michel Abimbola.
Benin: the faint breath of restitutions
20 May 2025 | Reparations | Benin
...the complexity of the technical studies and architectural issues. “The Abomey Museum is in three parts... Parts are in place. There’s still the exhibition part,…