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Chiquita trial - Photo: a promotional stand featuring only Chiquita bananas. At the very top, the brand's mascot. At the front of the booth, a large button and a sign reading “Push to start the show”.
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Lessons from the Chiquita Trial (2): The Battle of Experts

Analysing the trial of Chiquita, a multinational banana company that was ordered by a U.S. court to pay 38 million dollars in compensation for victims of the paramilitary in Colombia, lawyers Tatiana Devia and Daniel Marín López highlight the crucial role of experts in such cases. Expert testimonies often become the battleground on which these […]
By Tatiana Devia + Daniel Marin Lopez
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Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees - Photo: Israeli army soldiers arrest a blindfolded man in Tubas in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees

Chiquita trial in Florida - Photo: an employee of banana multinational Chiquita works in a factory in Colombia (Uruba).

Insights from the Chiquita trial (1): 25 years of struggle

Signing of an agreement between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Ukraine.

How Ukraine (nearly) joined the ICC

Gender apartheid in Afghanistan - Photo: in Kabul, women demonstrate for their rights in front of a beauty salon threatened with closure.

The Taliban’s rule is gender apartheid

Georgia's 2008 war against Russia: who will pay compensation for the victims? Photo: Elderly civilian victims near their burnt-down home following the Russian invasion.

Georgia 2008 war: when Russia won’t pay victims, solutions still exist

Russian hate Speech - Photo : Vladimir Solovyov.

Prosecuting Russian hate speech

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

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

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”