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People’s Tribunal on the Murders of Journalists (Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands).
People’s tribunals: “Simply pressing a start button”
7 May 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
It’s a court, but also not a court. It has the trappings of some of the Hague courts – judges, officials and witnesses – and deals with high-profile cases, like the next known that is due to hear, on May 16-17, the Filipino P [...]
Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah. Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say?
6 May 2024 by Anne Van Mourik + Lucy Gaynor
Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders are reportedly – according to sources in The Hague and Israel – being prepared by the International Criminal Court (ICC), possibly related to allegations of starvation. Anne van Mourik [...]
Climate justice in Switzerland - Activists from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association welcome the ECHR verdict. Switzerland condemned by the ECHR: a decisive step for climate justice in Europe
3 May 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women over 64, saying that their State’s inadequate steps against climate change constitute a violation of their human rights. Why is this a pioneering dec [...]
The Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish talks to the media in Koblenz, Germany. Darwish: collecting evidence, to avoid revenge and another war in Syria
3 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
For this hundredth episode of the podcast from our dear partners and colleagues at Asymmetrical Haircuts, our guest is Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish, who is present and active in all the universal jurisdiction processes concerning B [...]
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Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one” Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
At the end of March 2024, officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) visited officials from Nigeria. Photo: around fifteen people pose.
30 April 2024 by Julia Crawford
The ICC on Nigeria: Years of words, but no action How did Africa’s most populous country get buried in the recesses of the ICC? Focusing on Ukraine and Gaza, Prosecutor Karim Khan seems to have forgotten a case opened by his predecessor, who herself took ten years to conclude tha [...]
Between Eritrea and the Netherlands, the nightmare of migrants who are victims of human trafficking. Photo: A migrant in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, stands with one hand on his cheek, almost appearing to be asleep.
29 April 2024 by Margherita Capacci
Waiting for Eritrean human traffickers’ trials in the Netherlands A year and six months after a string of arrests of human traffickers accused of holding families living in the Netherlands to ransom, Dutch courts are making slow progress towards trials. Our correspondent attended the latest hear [...]
Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).
26 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated” Assumpta Mugiraneza, 57, is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage in Kigali. With rare freedom of speech, she recounts the construction of memory after the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 [...]
Trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes near Kyiv, Ukraine - Photo: a Ukrainian civilian walks down the street while smoke is visible in the distance following a Russian shell strike.
25 April 2024 by Iryna Salii
War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years This case is one of the rare trials of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, for a war crime that took place near the city of Borodyanka, 25 kilometers distant from the martyred city of Bucha. One of the thousands of crimes committed in th [...]
In Chad, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of the transition, relaunches the issue of reparations for the victims of Hissène Habré's dictatorship. Photo: Idriss Deby, under escort, raises his hand to greet the crowd.
23 April 2024 by Amaury Hauchard
Chad: coup de théâtre for Habré's victims On the eve of the presidential election scheduled for May 6, Chad's transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby has relaunched the reparations process for the victims of former dictator Hissène Habré. He has announced the release o [...]
On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read:
22 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. They have never been prose [...]
From left to right, Aboubacar Diakité, known as
19 April 2024 by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial enters the final stretch The “confrontation” phase began on April 15 in Guinea’s important trial on the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium. Defendants, victims and witnesses are taking the stand once again, but only on specific points. Dozens of people are [...]
A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.
18 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide April 13 saw the official closing ceremony for the 30th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. The ceremony took place on Mount Rebero, overlooking the capital Kigali -- the same place where the first commemoration took pl [...]
Major Gustavo Soto Bracamonte and Colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón, both indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, plant a black sage sapling at the launch of the environmental restorative pilot project near Bogotá, Colombia.
16 April 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment After six years of work and three since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's special transitional justice tribunal – known as JEP – is finally getting closer to imposing its first sanctions. With the launch of an environmental r [...]
A group of Rohingya Muslim refugees are closely gathered, hoping to be called to recieve food aid of rice, water, and cooking oil in a relief centre at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.
15 April 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Uncovering Myanmar’s atrocities Nick Koumjian has been the head of the UN's International Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) since 2018. He is the guest in this podcast by our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts. The IIMM is not only collecting evidence of [...]
The plaque next to the
15 April 2024 by Anne Van Mourik
Bonaire: a history of slavery, a present of social inequalities Bonaire, a Caribbean island within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, features pristine beaches, vibrant diving spots, and a bustling tourist scene. However, behind its beauty lies a tumultuous history marked by slavery and violence [...]
Nicaragua considers Germany's support for Israel (by supplying it with arms) to be complicity in genocide. Photo: An Israeli tank in Palestine, near Gaza.
12 April 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Nicaragua extends the legal battle over Palestine On April 8-9, the International Court of Justice heard Nicaragua’s lawyers arguing that Germany was violating the Genocide Convention by continuing to supply arms to Israel. This legal action follows South Africa’s against Israel [...]
Rwandan trial in Belgium - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, the accused, drops defence of Georges Rutaganda, also accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: 2 portraits side by side.
11 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is accused in a Belgian court of having participated in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda alongside his friend Georges Rutaganda, who was convicted 20 years ago by a UN tribunal and died in 2010. For the f [...]
In memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, 30 years on. Photo: At the end of the commemorations, an elder leaves the Mayunzwe memorial and walks down the hill towards the village.
9 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Mayunzwe remembers the "Calvary" of the Tutsis On April 7, all Rwandans commemorated 30 years since the 1994 genocide. While an official ceremony was held in the capital Kigali, gatherings were also organized on hillsides across the country. In Mayunzwe, central Rwanda, villag [...]