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Democratic Republic of Congo versus Rwanda: the conflict is now also being played out in African courts. Photo: An M23 soldier patrols near a coltan mine, a highly prized mineral that is believed to be one of Rwanda's motivations for its incursion into the DRC.
Kinshasa and Kigali face off in African courts
17 March 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
The conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda is now also being played out in the courts. That of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
International Criminal Court (ICC) - Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared sleepy, on March 14, at the opening of the crimes against humanity hearing over his deadly crackdown on narcotics. Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink
14 March 2025 by AFP
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte failed to attend in person an initial hearing at the International Criminal Court on Friday, as he faces crimes against humanity charges over his deadly crackdown on narcotics. The 79-ye [...]
Colombia, victim of the USAID funding freeze due to the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Photo: Musk, dressed all in black, proudly displays a T-shirt bearing the words ‘DOGE’ (acronym for the US Department of Government Efficiency). Can USAID’s funding freeze put Colombia’s peace process at risk?
14 March 2025 by Braeden Garrett + Tomasina Pearman + Clara Whitney
Colombia’s fragile peace process faces one of its greatest challenges since the 2016 Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla: for years, USAID has been the single largest provider of humanitarian fun [...]
Voislav Torden (Yan Petrovsky), leader of a group close to Russia, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for war crimes committed in Ukraine. Photo: Torden in military uniform. War crimes in Ukraine: a Russian sentenced to life in Finland
14 March 2025 by AFP
Voislav Torden is the first Russian citizen to be sentenced outside Ukraine for war crimes committed in that country. On Friday March 14, the leader of the Russian-affiliated paramilitary unit “Rusich Group” was sentenced to life [...]
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Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila following an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Duterte is sworn in during a Senate enquiry into the war on drugs waged under his administration, in Manila, on 28 October 2024.
13 March 2025 by Tom Smith
The ICC has got Duterte, what will the Philippines get? On March 12, former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was handed over to the International Criminal Court. His arrest comes in the context of a pro-West seduction campaign, from which Manila expects protection from China, expl [...]
The Congolese people of Masuika, in Kasai Central (Democratic Republic of Congo), heard the final verdict in the trial of two former members of the Kamuina Nsapu militia, accused of war crimes committed in 2017. Photo: The crowd awaits the verdict at the place where the mobile court hearings were held, near the site of the crimes.
11 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
The people of Masuika hears two verdicts The two men prosecuted for the martyrdom of a traditional chief in 2017 had their sentences reduced to 20 years in prison by the military court on March 10. The Congolese population of Masuika, in Central Kasai, was also able to a [...]
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has been arrested in Manila following the issue of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Duterte delivers a speech in August 2018.
11 March 2025 by AFP
Philippine: Duterte arrested under ICC warrant In the Philippines, the political battle between the two dynasties that rule the country, the Marcos and Duterte families, seems to be turning in favor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The former president Rodrigo Dutert [...]
In the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the verdict is confirmed on appeal for two defendants, former Kamwina Nsapu militiamen, in a trial for war crimes. Photo: The two defendants pose under a tent set up during a mobile court hearing in the village where the crimes took place.
10 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
Settling of scores in Kasai The appeal trial for the murder of Chief Mbangu in 2017 in Masuika, in the province of Central Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ended on March 7. The two defendants, sentenced to death in first instance, accused each other [...]
US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington
7 March 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The US against the world order Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts were in a post-punk witty mood when they released this new and timely podcast. They played with Joy Division’s cult song and called this program: “Law Will Tear U.S. Apart Again.” That was a g [...]
The invaders return - Poster for the redesigned ‘’The Invaders‘’ series. A map of the world is inlaid in the starry sky.
7 March 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
The invaders return More and more countries – Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela – are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without admitting. The world order establ [...]
In Kasai (Democratic Republic of Congo), some trials are held in mobile courts, in the heart of the villages, as close as possible to the crimes and the victims. Photo: Protected witnesses are covered from head to toe during a trial for war crimes committed by members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
6 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
In Kasai, justice on the ground and under protection After several postponements, the appeal trial of two men sentenced to death for war crimes committed in the Congolese region of Kasai opened in the town of Masuika on March 3. The entire court traveled to the crime site. To hear t [...]
Is the International Criminal Court sufficiently involved to try those responsible for the violent police crackdowns on opposition demonstrators in 2024? Photo: Members of the security forces (on motorbikes) arrest a demonstrator in a street in Caracas.
4 March 2025 by Tamara Taraciuk Broner
The ICC has a chance in Venezuela, it must take it The option of “positive complementarity” between the International Criminal Court and Venezuelan authorities has shown its limits, argues human rights lawyer Tamara Taraciuk Broner. Now is the time for the ICC prosecutor to take a [...]
How does justice work in Italy for crimes committed against migrants? Photo: Migrants from Africa, most of whom pass through Libya, are rounded up and watched over by Italian police officers.
3 March 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Italy: is accountability for crimes against migrants possible? Although trials against migrant smugglers have multiplied over the past decade in Italy, the suspects often face the only charge of smuggling while charges of kidnapping, killings, extortion or sexual violence hardly ever apply. T [...]
In Switzerland, crimes committed against nomadic peoples (Yenish, Sinti and Manouche) have been recognised by the government as ‘crimes against humanity’. Photo: Yenish children play the schwyzerörgeli, a small accordion, in front of a vehicle parked in an encampment.
28 February 2025 by Julia Crawford
This was a “dark chapter in Swiss history” On February 19, Switzerland admitted it committed a “crime against humanity” in removing thousands of Traveller children from their families over a period of 50 years. Adult Yenish and Sinti people were also victimized. This is th [...]
Parents and peers of killed or missing students during a press conference on October 6, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Authorities discovered over the weekend six adjoining pits containing 28 bodies, some badly burned and in pieces, on a hill outside the Guerrero state city of Iguala, where the students were last seen.
27 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Enforced disappearances in Mexico On the night of September 26, 2014, 43 students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in the state of Guerrero, approximately 300 km south of Mexico City. Initially, the state authorities said they were abducted and [...]
The deposed former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh found refuge in Equatorial Guinea in 2017. Could he return to Gambia to face trial? Photo: Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea.
27 February 2025 by Lucas Olo Fernandes
Equatorial Guinea and Jammeh’s equation The prospect of trying former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has grown bigger with the plan of a tribunal supported by the regional political organization ECOWAS. But there’s a snag: how to get him out of his protected exile in Equ [...]
Justice in Syria. Portrait (drawing) of Nadim Houry, international lawyer.
25 February 2025 by Franck Petit
Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract” Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, director of the Arab Reform Initiative Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” [...]
International law as seen from Israel. Photo: Members of the family of Naor Hassisim (murdered by Hamas on 7 October 2023) at his funeral in Israel.
21 February 2025 by Pierre Hazan
“A just war does not justify all means” Yaël Vias Gvirsman is a lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and is founder of October 7 Justice Without Borders. She represents over 350 victims of Hamas, including 44 mainly Israeli hostages or former hostages, [...]
In Bangladesh, following the demonstrations in the summer of 2024 that led to mass crimes, the International Crimes Tribunal is back in action to try those responsible. But there are reports of concern about the operation of the local justice system and its politicisation. Photo: Demonstrators, seen against the light, stand on a high structure, one of them waving a Bangladeshi flag.
20 February 2025 by David Bergman
The second life of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal Six months after the prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country, the new interim government has started the process of seeking accountability against politicians and security force officials accused of crimes ag [...]