What is the International Court of Justice and why does it matter?
UN Photo | The United Nations flag flies in front of the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been placed firmly in the global spotlight this month following South Africa’s decision to turn to the world tribunal after accusing Israel of violating […]
International Criminal Court oversight chief ‘deeply regrets’ US decision to target officials investigating Afghanistan war crimes
UN Photo/Rick BajornasPermanent headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. (file) Responding to the decision of the United States Government to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and their family members, O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the […]
Arrest of Sudanese war crimes suspect ‘extremely significant’: UN rights chief
UN News/Daniel DickinsonA warrant for the arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, was issued by the ICC in 2007. The arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, an alleged former Janjaweed militia leader in the restive Darfur region of Sudan, has been hailed by the UN […]
Aung San Suu Kyi appears at ICJ as UN rights expert urges greater protection for Myanmar activists
ICJ/Frank van Beek Aung San Suu Kyi appears at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 10 December 2019. Making the appeal is the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, who reports that online hostility against activists has increased since the announcement last month of international legal proceedings over the atrocities. WATCH LIVE: […]
ICC gives greenlight for probe into violent crimes against Rohingya
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring Bangladesh since 2016. The pre-trial judges “accepted that there exists a reasonable basis to believe widespread and/or systematic acts of violence may have been committed that could qualify as crimes against humanity […]
ICC to open separate initial examinations of Philippines ‘war on drugs;’ Venezuela protests
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Thursday that she will open preliminary examinations into the so-called “war on drugs” campaign launched by the Government of the Philippines and, separately analyze alleged crimes committed by Venezuela related to the demonstrations and ongoing political unrest there. “Following a careful, independent and impartial […]