
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
This new podcast from our partners of Asymmetrical Haircuts, with Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Tamsin Philipa Paige, associate professor with Deakin Law School, help us consider and rethink the rights of war today.
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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 The world order established in 1945 is obsolete, and international law is being violated without a second thought.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
A Palestinian from Syria on trial for war crimes in Sweden
30 October 2025
Palestine
ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza
22 October 2025
Philippines
Duterte, the ICC and the art of disinformation
26 September 2025
Dem. Rep. Of Congo
Kabila: a trial to intimidate
14 October 2025
Colombia
Colombia: Two historical judgements and the questions they leave
22 September 2025
Central African Republic
CAR’s Special Court wants to live on
1 August 2025
International justice news, according to AFP
4 November 2025
Mauritania ex-leader Aziz loses final appeal against 15-year jail term
4 November 2025
Cement maker Lafarge on trial in France over jihadist funding
4 November 2025
Sudan defence minister says army to keep fighting after US truce proposal
4 November 2025
Cement maker Lafarge on trial in France on charges of funding jihadists
4 November 2025
Sudan army-backed council to meet on US truce proposal: govt source
4 November 2025
Sudan army-backed council to meet on US truce proposal: government source
3 November 2025
Belarus slammed at UN for sweeping repression, arrests and torture
3 November 2025
UK university caved to China pressure over forced labour research: professor
3 November 2025
Violence in Sudan's El-Fasher could be war crimes, says top court
3 November 2025
Israel arrests former top army lawyer over abuse video
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