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Ruined buildings in Mariupol (Ukraine)

Ukraine: why states are storming the ICJ

Never before have so many states applied to be third parties to a dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). To date, 22 states have applied to intervene in the case between Ukraine and Russia over allegations of genocide in Ukraine. Russia said it had to invade Ukraine to prevent genocide against Russian-speaking citizens. […]

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Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?

Armenia/Azerbaijan: What alternative to the law of the strongest?

The Skin of a Sumatran tiger is seen in a plastic bag after the arrest of a trafficker in Bandah Aceh. Where wildlife crime is particularly common.

Let’s look at wildlife crimes

Philippe Sands (international law expert)

Philippe Sands: “There is an issue of identity and race” in international justice

Drawing illustrating Arthur Denouveaux testifying on the stand during the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris. In the background, the Bataclan concert is projected on a wall above the judges and the audience. Salah Abdeslam (the main defendant) also appears in the image.

France: Terrorist attacks trial proves an unforeseen experience of restorative justice

In a street in Chile, a poster stuck on a wall forms this sentence:

Is a virtuous model of reparation emerging in Chile?

Black and white photo of a hospital bed (operating table type) in the 60-70s.

Denmark and Greenland confront a traumatic birth control campaign

Destroyed street of Bucha, in Ukraine

Four Ways to Accountability in Ukraine

Portrait of Leigh Payne (drawing) by Benoit Peyrucq

Leigh Payne: Why Latin America is leading the way on corporate accountability

A priest and musicians celebrate a mass in memory of 3 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala in the 1980s.

Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims?

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.

Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere

The chairman of the ICC (next to the president and a legal counsel) ratify the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court

20 years on, an ICC still in campaign for ratification

Offices of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Windows in perspective.

The ICC at 20: elusive success, double standards and the “Ukraine moment”

Illustration (double portrait) by Joanna Kyriakakis and Mark Drumbl

“No one really wants corporations to be liable”

A soldier of the Syrian government army points his weapon at a large hole whose bottom is not visible

What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice

Many people wearing life jackets wait untel the are rescued from a rubber boat

The continuing nightmare of migrants in Libya

3 soldiers (Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun) stand behind bars

Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions

Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is visiting Bucha (Ukraine) with Iryna Venediktova. On the back of a person accompanying them, one can read

Ukraine: The risk of judging war crimes during war