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Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish the fire of a civilian building following a Russian bombing
2 March 2022 by AFP
ICC: Historic State referrals accelerate opening of an investigation on Ukraine Overnight, Ukraine's case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) became an "active investigation", eight years after the opening of a preliminary investigation in 2014. Reacting to Russia's widespread attack, 39 ICC States Part [...]
Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech in Ukraine
1 March 2022 by Franck Petit
What justice options for Ukraine faced with Russia’s invasion? Two days after the outbreak of the Russian attack, Ukraine has seized the International Court of Justice. But what can international law do to sanction the aggression of one state against another in the 21st century? Interview wit [...]
MH17 airplane
22 February 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Russia vs Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights Did Russia have territorial control of eastern Ukraine when Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014? This was one of the hot issues discussed this January at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in a case brought by Ukraine and the [...]
7 March 2019 by Alexander Prezanti and Simon Papuashvili
Putting an end to ICC inertia on Ukraine On March 6, Simon Papuashvili of the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Alexandre Prezanti of Global Diligence LLP filed their fourth communication to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in [...]
27 August 2017 by ICRC
Ukraine: Unbearable uncertainty for families of the missing For more than three years, eastern Ukraine has suffered conflict. Amid the world’s many other humanitarian crises, in Syria, or in Yemen for example, it can be easy to forget Ukraine. But the UN estimates that 10,000 people have l [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Ukraine leader slams Russia over arms given to rebels Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday demanded Russia's Vladimir Putin halt arms supplies to rebels as the leaders of France and Germany tried to revive a peace plan. After a spike in violence, the four leaders discussed [...]
13 April 2017 by AFP
Bloodied Ukraine marks three years of separatist war A bloodied Ukraine marks three years Thursday since it launched a campaign against Russian-backed eastern separatists that now looks like an interminable conflict whose terms are dictated by the Kremlin. More than 10,000 people ha [...]
8 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ukraine accuses Russia of terrorism at the International Court of Justice Ukraine and Russia are this week facing off against each other before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Kiev accuses Moscow of violating two international Conventions, one on funding terrorism and one on the e [...]
11 February 2017 by AFP
Two years since peace deal, war simmers in Ukraine Two years have passed since the signing of a deal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine but the bloody conflict has rumbled on -- at the cost of another 5,000 lives. The Minsk II accord saw Kremlin-backed rebels agree with Kiev and M [...]
11 February 2017 by AFP
The Ukraine conflict: Five things to know The war between Kiev and Moscow-backed rebels has killed more that 10,000 people, rattled eastern Europe and plunged relations between the West and Russia to post-Cold War lows. Here are five key facts about the 33-month conflict [...]
17 October 2016 by Ilya Nuzov
Transitional Justice in Ukraine: Reconciliation or Reconsolidation of Post-Communist Trauma? Shortly after the 2014 Maidan Revolution, during an international armed conflict with Russia in the East of the country, Ukraine adopted a package of four Decommunization Laws addressing its Soviet history. Largely a product of po [...]
29 September 2016 by AFP
Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar mass slaughter of Jews A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marks 75 years since the World War II slaughter of some 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev, one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust.  The carnage by Nazi forces at the Babi Yar ravine has cause [...]
28 September 2016 by AFP
Inquiry says MH17 shot down by missile brought into Ukraine from Russia The missile that downed flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine was transported from Russia, a criminal inquiry revealed Wednesday, as it announced that about 100 people were being investigated for playing "an active role" in the disaste [...]
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31 January 2016 by AFP
Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader toppled in Ukraine Russia Ukrainian activists in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday night toppled a statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky, implicated in a famine that killed millions in the 1930s, city hall said. Several youn [...]
9 September 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Ukraine gives ICC green light to probe alleged crimes in the East The Ukrainian government on Tuesday gave a green light to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes committed on its territory since February 20, 2014, notably in the east of the country where some 8,000 people [...]