Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits a memorial on Parliament Hill in recognition of the discovery of children’s remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Canada has officially recognized eight genocides that have happened around the world. It has not done the same for its own treatment of Indigenous children who they sent to Indian Residential Schools.
A protester supports the Rohingya outside the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, on 10 December 2019.
EPA-EFE/Sem van der Wal
The Rohingya case before the International Court of Justice is politically and legally significant.
EPA-EFE/ Fredrik Persson
Kofi Annan’s tenure began after the reintroduction of two important international security lexicons – peacebuilding and human security.
Kofi Annan in 2009.
World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons
While his appointment as UN Secretary-General was a huge breakthrough, Kofi Annan also led the organisation through some of its ugliest moments.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan left a mixed legacy.
EPA-EFE/Martial Trezzini
Kofi Annan was the first UN employee to rise to the position of Secretary General but his tenure also had a darker side.
EPA/Jasmin Brutus
The massacre of 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks in a few days in 1995 must never be forgotten.
Sea ice off of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.
NASA
Geospatial data offers a powerful new way to see the world. But these high-tech images can be misleading or incomplete.
Convicted for genocide and other crimes.
David Bailey
Last of the big trials for UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, but what about high-ranking officials from the other side?
A deal done: the foreign minister of Bangladesh, Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali, visits Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
EPA/Myanmar Ministry of Information
Refugees’ rights are protected by international law. Why are the Rohingya being returned home?
Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court in The Hague.
Reuters
Former commander of the Bosnian Serb army Ratko Mladic has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Survivors of the atrocities have today welcomed the long-awaited news.
General Ratko Mladić – convicted of war crimes and genocide.
Surian Soosay
Bosnian Serb general found guilty of genocide.
Former general Mladić during proceedings in January.
UN ICTY
Forensic science of the dead helps to convict the living responsible.
Robots are currently used by police for bomb disposal. Future versions will be much more sophisticated.
Nigel Roddis/AAP
Robots are a twin-edged sword. Used badly, they may one day perpetrate genocide and war crimes. Used well, they can prevent them.
EPA/Abir Abdullah
Genocide doesn’t begin with mass murder. It’s a long, insidious process that can be stopped before it’s too late.
Displaced team Velež Mostar FC’s far less glamorous postwar home, in the village of Vrapčići.
Richard Mills
In many countries sports like football brings people together, but in Bosnia it re-emphasises the divides.
Graves at the memorial center Potocari, near Srebrenica.
AP Photo/Amel Emric
How long does it take to make peace? Decades after the end of the Bosnian war, just one in six residents felt that country had reached reconciliation.
Trump and the United Nations: a difficult relationship.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Most of Trump’s positions go against the principles accepted by the United Nations. The new Secretary-General will have to try to find areas of mutual concern to work with the new US administration.
EPA/John Cetrino
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Donald Trump took to his desk to instruct his government to keep refugees out.
Karadžić in court.
EPA/Robin Van Lonkhuijsen
Former Bosnian Serb leader guilty of one count of genocide and numerous war crimes after 18 months of deliberation.
EPA
A four year trial and several years of deliberation later, and an international tribunal is to decide on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.