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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

It is 25 years since former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16, 1998. This was a defining moment in the development of international justice. It was also a defining moment for Chile’s justice system. Professor Cath Collins highlights a part of the story that is less known: how Pinochet’s arrest […]

By Cath Collins

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

Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game?

The Lundin trial could worry multinationals - Bubbles in an oil puddle in Sudan.

Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"

Oil pump

The Lundin moment

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

Truth Commission in Norway - A woman poses in traditional Sami clothing.

Will Norway’s truth and reconciliation process bring change?

Prigozhin is dead, will Wagner’s crimes remain unpunished?

Colonialism and decolonization in Switzerland - Hans Himmelheber poses near his mask collection.

Switzerland: the art of decolonizing a country without colonies

Missing persons in Syria -

Missing persons in Syria: why create a new UN body?

War crimes in Ukraine - Investigators from the French Gendarmerie's Institute of Criminal Research (IRCGN) examine a body in a tent after its exhumation from a mass grave in Bucha, in cooperation with Ukrainian police.

Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle”

MLA Treaty (or MLAT) - Picture of a worlwide network

What’s in the “MLA” Treaty?

Ukraine - The Nova Kakhovka dam after its destruction

A dam in Ukraine and the question of ecocide

Félicien Kabuga

Has trying Kabuga become absurd?

Climate change - Following a sudden rise in water levels, two residents of the Marshall Islands are walking with water up to their chests.

Why those experiencing "climate hell" are taking their case to the UN Court

Universal jurisdiction - Overview of a session at the French National Assembly

Universal Jurisdiction: movement to end the French exception?