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Justice for Syria and the International court of Justice (ICJ) - Photo: a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the streets of Damascus.
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Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria?

One year after the June 8th 2023 complaint and six months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered measures against the Syrian government, torture and human rights violations are still committed as reported by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry. Veronica Bellintani, Adrian Lakrichi, and Syrian lawyer, Mouhanad Sharabati, of the Syrian Legal […]
By Veronica Bellintani + Adrian Lakrichi + Mouhanad Sharabati
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A national tribunal for war crimes in Liberia - Photo: Joseph Boakai speaks before parliament.

The evidence battleground for Liberia’s war crimes court

Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.

Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say?

The plaque next to the

Bonaire: a history of slavery, a present of social inequalities

In Colombia, how will the JEP apply its commitments on sanctions? Photo: FARC officials at the signing of part of the peace agreement in December 2015 in Cuba.

Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered €52 million in reparations for the victims of Dominic Ongwen in Uganda. Photo: Judge Bertram Schmitt.

The wild reparations order of the ICC

Restitution of stolen gold royal artefacts to Ghana’s Asante king.

Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home – what’s the deal?

Israel on trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide against the people of Palestine.

Israel on Trial

International Criminal Court (ICC): NGOs and states - Photo: Karim Khan's speech in Cairo.

ICC: why NGOs are concerned, not States

Trials behind closed doors - A growing trend in international courts. Photo:

A Silence Epidemic: when real trials are held behind closed doors…

Banks and climate justice - Financiers are now in the sights of NGOs seeking to prove their involvement in global warming.

Banks, the new targets of climate action

Can Joseph Boakai, Liberia's new president, be seen as a hope for justice for past war crimes? Photo: Boakai stands on a platform in front of a crowd of supporters during his election campaign.

Liberia has a new president: is there renewed hope for justice?

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), at the request of the Netherlands and Canada, examines systematic torture in Syria

The law and the spectacle of the law

Justice in Chile for Pinochet's crimes - Photo: Uruguayan demonstrators celebrate Pinochet's arrest in 1998.

Chile’s ‘Pinochet Cases’ at 25: an ongoing sea change

George Weah, the President of Liberia, is keeping silent and leaving the truth about the war crimes he denounced at the start of his term of office on hold.

George Weah’s politics of silence

In Angola, stormy reconciliation between UNITA and government - Photo of a battalion of soldiers in 1982.

Polarized reconciliation in Angola

September 28 trial, one year on - When the trial opened in 2022 in Conakry (Guinea), did the victims' relatives have any idea of the scale the trial would take?

28 September massacre in Guinea: evaluating the trial one year on

Herero genocide in Namibia - Propaganda painting showing German soldiers confronting Herero fighters.

A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory

1st judgement of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic - Issa Sallet Adoum watches Mahamat Tahir, lying on the floor, weakened by a hunger strike. These are 2 of the 3 defendants on trial.

CAR: how Special Criminal Court appeal judges innovated and proposed a model