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The former President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, appears before the International Criminal Court (ICC) by videoconference. Photo: in the foreground, Duterte's lawyer, in the background, Duterte himself projected onto a video screen.
Duterte’s arrest: the ICC Prosecutor’s performative paradox
25 March 2025 by Lucy Gaynor
Now that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in the box before the International Criminal Court, academic Lucy Gaynor explains the paradox of this apparent performance for a Court in trouble.
Colombia, victim of the USAID funding freeze due to the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Photo: Musk, dressed all in black, proudly displays a T-shirt bearing the words ‘DOGE’ (acronym for the US Department of Government Efficiency). Can USAID’s funding freeze put Colombia’s peace process at risk?
14 March 2025 by Braeden Garrett + Tomasina Pearman + Clara Whitney
Colombia’s fragile peace process faces one of its greatest challenges since the 2016 Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla: for years, USAID has been the single largest provider of humanitarian fun [...]
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila following an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Duterte is sworn in during a Senate enquiry into the war on drugs waged under his administration, in Manila, on 28 October 2024. The ICC has got Duterte, what will the Philippines get?
13 March 2025 by Tom Smith
On March 12, former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was handed over to the International Criminal Court. His arrest comes in the context of a pro-West seduction campaign, from which Manila expects protection from China, expl [...]
Is the International Criminal Court sufficiently involved to try those responsible for the violent police crackdowns on opposition demonstrators in 2024? Photo: Members of the security forces (on motorbikes) arrest a demonstrator in a street in Caracas. The ICC has a chance in Venezuela, it must take it
4 March 2025 by Tamara Taraciuk Broner
The option of “positive complementarity” between the International Criminal Court and Venezuelan authorities has shown its limits, argues human rights lawyer Tamara Taraciuk Broner. Now is the time for the ICC prosecutor to take a [...]
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The deposed former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh found refuge in Equatorial Guinea in 2017. Could he return to Gambia to face trial? Photo: Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea.
27 February 2025 by Lucas Olo Fernandes
Equatorial Guinea and Jammeh’s equation The prospect of trying former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has grown bigger with the plan of a tribunal supported by the regional political organization ECOWAS. But there’s a snag: how to get him out of his protected exile in Equ [...]
10 February 2025 by Lise Foisneau
80 years on, remembrance starts for France’s “Nomads” Eighty years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, we still do not know how many so-called “Nomads” were placed under house arrest, interned on French territory or murdered. However, lists drawn up by French au [...]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a hub for the mineral trade, is a magnet for neighbouring Rwanda, as it is for other countries further afield, in the European Union and elsewhere. Photo: Members of the M23 armed group, supported by Rwanda, patrol in Goma, North Kivu.
4 February 2025 by Kerstin Bree Carlson
Modern-day gold rush in North Kivu: what the law can do Is there a role for international law in what’s happening in North Kivu, and more generally in international peace, at a time when Rwanda seems to have drawn the conclusion of a global context marked by major powers openly conside [...]
The ICC investigation in the Philippines is stalling. It is targeting crimes attributed to former president Rodrigo Duterte's bloodthirsty anti-drug war. But a political battle is raging between current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his vice-president Sara Duterte, the former president's daughter. Photo: In a Manila street, two effigies of Duterte and Marcos fight during a demonstration.
27 January 2025 by Tom Smith
The ICC caught in clan rivalry in Philippines The International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines is used as a political football kicked between the two dynasties that are ruling the country, the Marcos and Duterte families. And it’s unlikely to play in favour o [...]
In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
17 January 2025 by Bojan Gavrilovic
Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a s [...]
In Syria, after the fall of Assad, the search for the disappeared often begins in mass graves. Photo: People digging at the bottom of a deep mass grave while children watch from above.
7 January 2025 by Luis Fondebrider
Syria: getting it right in the search for the disappeared Since the fall of the Assad regime a month ago, many reports told the stories of Syrians trying to find out about their relatives who had disappeared. Infamous detention centers have revealed their murderous secrets. Mass graves w [...]
In Liberia, a statue of Prince Y. Johnson has been erected in front of apartment blocks. A group of young people surround it, some sitting on the pedestal.
16 December 2024 by Aaron Weah
Prince Y. Johnson: The Great Escape  Prince Y. Johnson was one of Liberia’s most feared and charismatic warlords, and yet he had managed to reinvent himself as a born-again Christian preacher and a popular politician in post-war Liberia. His death at the age of 72 le [...]
Norway on the road to reconciliation with the Sami indigenous peoples, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. Photo : traditional dwellings of the Sami people - set up in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament.
28 November 2024 by Astrid Nonbo Andersen + Amalie Drage Habbestad + Astri Dankertsen
The beginning of Norway’s reconciliation process On November 12, the Norwegian Parliament apologized to the Sami, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. It also acted on the report and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliat [...]
JEP and Transitional Justice in Colombia. Photo: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla fighters prepare to be demobilized following the signing of the peace agreement.
25 November 2024 by Paola Molano-Ayala
Colombia: Going back to the original balance of justice There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in [...]
UNITAD teams on the ground in Iraq, helping to find mass graves where victims of the Islamic State organisation were buried. Photo: investigators and technicians (one wearing a waistcoat bearing the United Nations logo) work on a mass grave site.
19 November 2024 by Hawre Ahmed
UNITAD’s unfulfilled goals for ISIS accountability in Iraq On 17 September 2024, UNITAD, the United Nations Investigative team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Daesh/ISIS, concluded its mandate after seven years. Human rights activist and jurist Hawre Ahmed says the UN bo [...]
Gang stories - Photo: a member of the MS-13 gang behind bars in a prison in El Salvador
15 November 2024 by Dennis Rodgers
Gang stories : another way of looking at violence Gangs and gangsters fascinate. What’s particular about them is not the violence, which can be found in all quarters of our societies, but the way in which they represent it most vividly and, somehow, honestly. The GANGS project, d [...]
Gangs and transitional justice - Photo: Young people take part in a sports event in Marseille's northern suburbs, where violence is rife.
14 November 2024 by Dennis Rodgers
Are gangs a topic for transitional justice? Recognising that gangs are fundamentally embedded social phenomena, intimately linked to the urban fabric in which they operate, and that their violence intersects with other forms of social, structural, state or environmental bru [...]
Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy
Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia, is having difficulty choosing the head of the war crimes tribunal. Photo: Boakai delivers a speech.
8 October 2024 by Aaron Weah
Why it is so hard to appoint a director for Liberia’s war crimes court The first eight months of President Joseph Boakai in office has been dramatic in the process of establishing a war crimes court in Liberia. On May 2, the President signed a law creating an Office to establish the War and Economic [...]
Palestine/Israel: what are the recommendations of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in terms of law, and the United Nations resolution to stop and repair the Israeli occupation deemed illegal. Photo: Special session of the UN General Assembly during a vote on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
7 October 2024 by Nada Kiswanson
Palestine-Israel: it’s time to implement a legal roadmap to peace A year after the October 7 attack, the war unleashed in response by Israel is spreading to the whole region. The UN’s World Court (ICJ) delivered in July an Opinion that has been followed, on September 18, by a large majority at t [...]
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