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

Is a virtuous model of reparation emerging in Chile?

In Chile, a recent move from the new government on reparation for victims of human rights violations committed during the 2019 uprising could trigger and expresses a radical shift of policy in dealing with human rights violations, and an opportunity to revisit the unfulfilled demands of survivors of the dictatorship, argues the author.

By Marit de Haan

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

Dead bodies on Yablunska street in Bucha (Ukraine)

Reporting atrocities, a testimony from Bucha

Two women (one holding a cross) in a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine.

Genocide in Ukraine: what are the roots of the debate?

Gibril Massaquoi at the Tempere court in Finland

Massaquoi acquittal: What has it Wrought?

Collection of portraits (archives) of victims of the

Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

Different figures (tens of thousands) of forced disappearances in Colombia. In the background, silhouette of an unknown face.

What’s behind the numbers of disappeared in the Colombian armed conflict?

Janjaweed rider on his horse in a village in Sudan (Darfur region)

Darfur crimes on trial at the ICC