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A poster of Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on a street in Kabul in August 2023. © Wakil Kohsar / AFP

ICC: Prosecutor targets Taliban leaders

23 January 2025 by AFP

After the most senior Russian, Israeli, Palestinian and Burmese leaders, it's now the turn of Afghan leaders to be targeted by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Karim Khan is asking the court to issue arres [...]

Women rights in Afghanistan - Veiled women leave a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan

Gender apartheid at the forefront of international justice

12 November 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Gender apartheid is a new frontline of international justice, as Justice Info recently highlighted. The guest in this new episode of our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners, Karima Bennoune, is currently campaigning for this alleged cr [...]

Women all dressed in black and a child in a refugee camp

How Gender Stereotypes Distort IS Trials in Germany

29 October 2021 by Alexandra Lily Kather, Niriksha Sanghvi and Carlotta Sallach

On October 25, a Munich Court sentenced a German national to 10 years in prison for the enslavement and killing of a five-year-old Yazidi girl in Iraq. Jennifer W.’s conviction is the fifth in Germany of a female Islamic State (IS [...]

Demonstration for women rights in Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia: Are women the “ordinary victims” of political violence?

6 May 2021 by Olfa Belhassine

Sociologist Sélima Kebaili, a gender studies researcher at the University of Lausanne, looks in a recent thesis at women’s experience of transitional justice in Tunisia. Her work, which she recently defended at the École des haute [...]

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