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War Crimes in Bosnia - A woman walks among the graves of the Potocari cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Time is running out for war crimes prosecution in Bosnia

“A race against time” is the title of a recent report by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) highlighting the delays in implementation of the country’s strategy for war crimes prosecution. The risk is to see the process prolonged for a number of years. While the completion of those trials was a top […]

By Massimo Moratti

Crimes agains humanity in Kenya - Police violence during a protest in Kisumu (Kenya). Military policeman seems to shoot in front of him.

What can Kenya's first case for crimes against humanity achieve?

Drawing of Kunti Kamara during his conviction for crimes against humanity in France

Liberian Kunti Kamara convicted in France for crimes against humanity

Two detainees in orange suits stand before judges of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) during their trial in Bangui, Central African Republic. They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Central African Republic: Special Criminal Court hands down first judgment

In the foreground: members of the riot police, armed and in military uniforms. In the background: people gathered in the street. Kisume (Kenya) in 2017.

First prosecutions for crimes against humanity in Kenya

Pencil drawing of a courtroom in Paris, in the trial of Kunti Kamara, for crimes committed in Liberia. Another Liberian (living in Switzerland), Alieu Kosiah, was called to testify.

Liberian case in France: "too complicated to be tried by whites"

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, accused of torture as a Seleka rebel commander in the Central African Republic, appears before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

Central African Republic: Trial of Séléka commander opens before the ICC

Khieu Samphan (the last Khmer Rouge on trial), close-up during his trial in Cambodia.

Khieu Samphan, the last Khmer rouge

A group of people gather in the street, in Libya, in front of a poster showing 4 civilian victims of militias.

Justice in Libya: A road to hope or a road to nowhere?

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?

3D image illustrating the construction project of the Paris court (office buildings). In the foreground, the logos of several companies (Lafarge, BNP Paribas, Uniqlo, Amesys and Castel group) are embedded in bubbles.

Lafarge and the judicial twists and turns of corporate liability in France

Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings

A man in military clothing stands outside (Yumbi area). His face is not visible.

Yumbi massacres: Justice in slow motion

Bai Lowe (a

Gambian trial in Germany: the thin line between witness and suspect

During an event of the Truth Commission of Colombia, three ex-Colombian officers, standing on a platform, meet a woman (she is shaking hands with one of them). In the background, a large screen shows the words

Truth in Colombia: “Your sons were innocent people we murdered”

Portrait of Laurent Bucyibaruta

Rwandan ex-prefect Bucyibaruta on trial for genocide in Paris

Meeting at the Eurojust offices in The Hague (round table)

Ukraine, ICC and Eurojust: how will that work

Colonel Rubén Darío Castro speaks to victims of

Colombia: The day 10 army officials accused of false positives faced their victims

Gibril Massaquoi

Acquittal of Massaquoi: reality check for Finnish justice