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Palestine vs Israel: the legal battles. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

States vs ICC: the legal battles ahead on Palestine/Israel

What does complementarity between states and the International Criminal Court (ICC) actually means? What’s the test applied by the court? How did it evolve over the years? Do previous examples help understand the situation in Israel and Palestine? Kevin Jon Heller, an adviser to the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, tries to debunk the complementarity principle […]
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Al-Hassan trial at the ICC - Photo: 3 judges of the International Criminal Court (Tomoko Akane, Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua and Kimberly Prost) sit in The Hague.

Is the ICC Al Hassan judgement a mess or the future?

International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran.

International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges

Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war

International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs): an option for financing Ukraine with Russian money. Image: photo montage of a rouble coin, a Ukrainian flag and frost.

Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool

Sudan: in response to the crimes committed in El-Fasher, and more generally in the Darfur region, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching an appeal for testimony. Photo: A cattle market burns down in El-Fasher after a bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Suliman Baldo: El-Fasher, a siege “comparable to Gaza”

Justice for Syria and the International court of Justice (ICJ) - Photo: a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the streets of Damascus.

Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria?

A national tribunal for war crimes in Liberia - Photo: Joseph Boakai speaks before parliament.

The evidence battleground for Liberia’s war crimes court

Palestine / Israel - Karim Khan: International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC)

ICC’s Khan goes after Israel and Hamas

ICC arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas. Photo montage of 3 flags: Hamas, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel.

Israel/Palestine: the moment of truth

Counting the victims - Photo: Yemeni children in a civilian builing destoyed during the war.

Counting the victims of a conflict: who does it, how?

Russell Tribunal (citizen's tribunal): interview with Guillaume Mouralis - Illustration: portrait of Guillaume Mouralis.

Guillaume Mouralis: “law and justice can be powerful tools of emancipation”

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 Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish talks to the media in Koblenz, Germany.

Darwish: collecting evidence, to avoid revenge and another war in Syria

Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).

Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated”

A group of Rohingya Muslim refugees are closely gathered, hoping to be called to recieve food aid of rice, water, and cooking oil in a relief centre at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Uncovering Myanmar’s atrocities

The plaque next to the

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

Sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Women victims in DRC

Breaking the silence on conflict-related sexual violence

Residents of an Ugandan village listen to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) sentence of Dominic Ongwen, on the radio.

Reparations: can the ICC's millions benefit victims in Uganda?