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.
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Nearly three decades after the horrific gas attack by Saddam Hussein, Kurds are waiting for the world to recognise a genocide.
How can the International Criminal Court serve justice in a climate of intense rumour and bitter suspicion?
The trials weren’t perfect, but the Allies had wanted to shoot the defendants, so at least the world learned something about justice.
South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC could have mere symbolic value. The country will continue to have obligations to binding decisions taken by the UN Security Council – including those pertaining to the court.
A Dutch Safety Board report is crucial to the progress of the ongoing criminal investigation into downed flight MH17.
Bombing a hospital and killing doctors and wounded or sick persons may seem to be an obvious war crime. But the reality of both the law and the facts is significantly more complicated.
There’s an issue of impunity around sexual violence in conflict zones. Here’s how science could help us solve it.
A 91-year-old radio operator from Auschwitz death camp has been charged as an accessory to the murder of 260,000 inmates of the notorious death camp.
Set up between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Nuremburg Trials founded an entire legal system the world now takes for granted.
Russia is the latest to deny 1995 massacre was genocide. Why is it so hard to agree on this issue?
The ICC has not lived up to its noble intentions of making the world more just. Its failure echoes that of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which set out to banish wars and to settle disputes peacefully.
The attempt to arrest al-Bashir is the first time a court in an ICC member state has come to answering the question whether a sitting head of state can be detained and handed over to the ICC.
Omar al-Bashir left South Africa as a court dragged its feet over whether to stop him. This is probably illegal – and it’s par for the course.
As a signatory to the Rome Statute, South Africa is obliged to arrest Omar al-Bashir and end his status as a fugitive from international law for war crimes allegedly committed in the conflict in Darfur.
Months after Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed, chlorine attacks are continuing – and there’s little sign of any war crimes charges materialising.
With the peace process derailed and the incoming Netanyahu administration promising zero tolerance to Palestine, joining the ICC sets a major cat among the pigeons.
One of the darkest moments of France’s colonial history has never been properly acknowledged. That could be about to change.
Should robots be treated with the same concern as any other intelligent being? Or are they unnatural, dangerous, to be eliminated?
As the Democratic Republic of Congo seeks justice for one of its most notorious massacres, it’s also preparing to engage Rwandan fighters once again.
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
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Lecturer in Law, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in History and Politics, Murdoch University
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Lecturer in History, Murdoch University
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Professor of Law, American University
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Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Lecturer in International Relations and International Security, University of Bath
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Challis Chair of International Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Professor in International Law, Bournemouth University
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Professor of International Law, University of Portsmouth
