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Mexico: UN seized of a ‘crime against humanity’
By Julia Crawford
Last month, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances said it had “well founded indications that enforced disappearances in Mexico have been and continue to be committed as crimes against humanity”. It referred the situation to the General Assembly.
Enforced disappearances in Mexico: when the UN gets involved. Photo: a mother searches for her missing son, looking at posters of missing persons on a wall in the street.
Volodymyr Zelensky signs an agreement with the Council of Europe on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Photo: Zelensky and Alain Berset (Secretary General of the Council of Europe) are seated at a table signing documents. In the background: a Ukrainian flag and a European flag. Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine: EU commits to action
By AFP
This is the first time since Nuremberg and Tokyo that an international tribunal has been established to try the crime of aggression. The European Union and thirty-six states, mostly European, formally committed on Friday 15 May 2026 to establishing the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. 
Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has forced him to flee. Photo Dela Rosa and Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during the appointment of Dela Rosa as the Philippine National Police chief. ICC exposes democratic wounds in Philippines
By Tom Smith
Last week Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s flight through the Senate corridors was not a constitutional crisis caused by foreign justice. It was a local production, staged by Filipino politicians, using Filipino institutions, to protect Filipino impunity.
Félicien Kabuga, accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, died before being judged. Image: a portrait photograph of Kabuga that has been digitally altered to make it appear as though the image is fading away. Neither tried nor released, Kabuga has died
By AFP
Following his death in a hospital in The Hague on Saturday 16 May 2026, at the age of 91, Félicien Kabuga’s final judgement has come – for believers – without the UN Mechanism responsible for his trial having brought it to a conclusion.
Min Aung Hlaing inspects the troops in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Will ASEAN step up on Universal Jurisdiction?
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
Investigations have been opening in southeast Asia – by Myanmar’s neighbours – into alleged crimes committed after the military took over in 2021, which we discover in this new Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast.
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“Living with US sanctions means living in constant uncertainty” A total of 11 judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the US government. Some have come public about how it's deeply affected their daily life. And it’s unclear what protection they may enjoy.
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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
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“Ukraine has done itself and international law a service”
23 February 2026 by Franck Petit
After four years of war in Ukraine and a year since Donald Trump returned to power, international law seems more threatened than ever, and its role in peace negotiations is being challenged. But the example of Ukraine, which is establishing a “regional” tribunal for the crime of aggression created by the Council of Europe, shows us “a space for the extension and survival of international law even at the worst moment of its crisis,” according to Frédéric Mégret.
Justice for Syria: what are the various initiatives for justice for Syria around the world, at the national level (in Syria or elsewhere, under universal jurisdiction) or at the international level (via the ICJ and UN bodies)? Image: world map with a photo of Sednaya prison (Syria) seen from the air and a portrait of Bashar al-Assad superimposed on it.
Justice for Syria: who is doing what?
8 December 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, on 7 December 2024, the landscape of justice for grave violations of international law in Syria has transformed. Some transitional justice institutions have been established in Syria. And there have never been so many active Syrian cases under universal jurisdiction. 
Justice for Gaza: what are the various initiatives for justice for Gaza around the world, at the national and international levels (via the ICC, the ICJ, and the UN)? Image: world map with a photo of a completely destroyed street in Gaza, seen from the sky, superimposed on it.
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what?
4 November 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
It’s a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel: in January 2025, the Israeli army warned its soldiers about possible arrests when they travel abroad. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, two international courts have been seized: the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants, and the International Court of Justice, whose decisions have been supported by resolutions of the UN General Assembly. At the same time, the Human Rights Council has set up a commission, which has concluded that a “genocide” is taking place. Finally, complaints have been filed in dozens of national courts, and universal jurisdiction proceedings have been opened around the world.
In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere.
“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people”
14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya
In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.
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