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The Lundin moment

Sweden is putting on trial two former chief executives of the oil company Lundin for their alleged complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Facts date back to more than 20 years when the Swedish oil company secured a production site and paid Sudan’s government forces and militias to protect it. Thousands of people died, hundreds […]

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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?

Climate change - Cyclone in Vanuatu (2015)

Vanuatu brings climate justice to the ICJ

Operation Condor - Trial of Jorge Néstor Troccoli in Italy.

Operation Condor: what to expect from the second trial in Rome

Sudan's Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti)

Sudan and the power(lessness) of the ICC

Universal jurisdiction (podcast) - Rohingya refugee woman from Myanmar in a camp in Bangladesh

Has universal jurisdiction come of age?

Impunity in Guatemala - Virginia Laparra, an anti-corruption prosecutor is facing justice

Guatemalan judges and prosecutors under fire

The case of Palestine before the International Criminal Court (ICC)

The ICC Palestinian challenge

Initiative for Reconciliation in Angola: Restitution of human remains of victims of the civil war

Mistaken identities: how Angola’s reconciliation process derailed