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Sudan has filed a genocide claim against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: Soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces in a combat vehicle are greeted by Sudanese in Khartoum.
Sudan vs UAE: just trying to get attention?
21 March 2025 by Janet H. Anderson (our correspondent in The Hague)
Sudan has filed a genocide claim against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice. But legal experts agree that the case has very little chance of proceeding, so why have they bothered?
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. This was a “dark chapter in Swiss history”
28 February 2025 by Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
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 [...]
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. “A just war does not justify all means”
21 February 2025 by Pierre Hazan (for Justice Info)
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, [...]
Raji Sourani, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, talks to Justice Info about the situation in the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and international law, following Donald Trump's statements. Photo: Sourani looks out of his office window. “I hope Gaza won’t be the graveyard of international law”
14 February 2025 by Pierre Hazan (for Justice Info)
On February 12, 2025, leading Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani [read bio below] talked to Justice Info, reacting to President Donald Trump’s declarations on Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s thr [...]
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Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014.
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]
Military report supposedly behind the plot that led to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Photo montage combining a portrait of Théoneste Bagosora at a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and a scan of the 1991 report of the ‘Bagosora Commission’.
5 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Justice Info publishes the report supposedly behind the genocide plot in Rwanda For 30 years, only an extract of this report had been known. And in the eyes of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), this extract formed the basis of the criminal conspiracy that led to the geno [...]
Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.
4 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative On November 8, 1994, less than four months after the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Over the course of almost 30 years of trials, how has this court forged its [...]
Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris
30 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide Eugène Rwamucyo, a former Rwandan doctor and teacher, was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by a French court on October 30 for complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. He is the eighth Rwandan to be tried in France f [...]
Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy (for The Conversation France)
Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
Eugène Rwamucyo, a Rwandan doctor accused in France of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.
1 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo: the eighth Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial opens in France The trial of Eugène Rwamucyo will last four weeks before the Paris Assize Court, where the Rwandan is on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. The crimes are alleged to have been committed by the doctor in Rwanda thirty [...]
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19 July 2024 by Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
When a people’s tribunal tries the People’s Republic of China A people’s court sitting in The Hague has “indicted” Chinese President Xi Jinping for genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for crimes against the Uyghur. This unofficial court set up by a non-governmental organisation hop [...]
Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.
10 June 2024 by AFP
Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide He helped the killers “with full knowledge of the facts”, ruled the jury in the seventh Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Belgium. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, brother-in-law of Interahamwe militia leader Georges Rutagan [...]
Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.
10 June 2024 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro (our correspondent in Rwanda)
Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire” Back in his village after serving a 15-year prison sentence for complicity in genocide, ex-convict Pascal Hamenyimana is gradually returning to a normal life, thanks to the welcome, the moral and financial support of several survi [...]
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda
14 May 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet (our correspondent in Belgium)
Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in K [...]
Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.
6 May 2024 by Anne Van Mourik + Lucy Gaynor
Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say? 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 (our correspondent in Belgium)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 (our correspondent in The Hague)
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 [...]
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