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In Marioupol, Ukraine, a woman carries her child in her arms in the street. Behind her, Russian soldiers are patrolling. In the background: destroyed civilian buildings.

UN commission on Ukraine crimes “will seek to identify persons and entities” responsible

After an oral update to the UN Human Rights Council last month, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently submitted its first report to the UN General Assembly. It has pointed to war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine, including executions, torture, sexual violence and use of “explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated […]

By Julia Crawford

A photo montage shows the Russian soldier Serhiy Steiner (in uniform) on one side and the Ukrainian court in charge of trying him on the other side.

Ukraine: First verdict in absentia for Russian war crimes

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

Salih Mustafa's lawyer (Julius von Bone) faces and greets prosecutor Jack Smith during the trial in The Hague for the allegated war crimes commited by Mustafa in Kosovo.

Kosovo Specialist Chambers wraps its first war crimes trial

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?

Mikhail Romanov

Ukraine: The first war time rape trial is held in absentia and behind closed doors

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.

Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere

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 Ukrainian policeman from behind. In the background, the two accused Russian soldiers, Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov, in the box, during their trial in Ukraine.

Two Russian soldiers are convicted in Ukraine’s second war crimes trial

Convicted of war crimes, Vadim Shishimarin waits in the dock of a court in Kiev (Ukraine)

First Ukraine war crime trial through the eyes of a local court reporter

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”

Trial of Vadim Shishimarin in an ukrainian court

Ukraine opens first war crime trial of a Russian soldier

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

Ukraine, ICC and Eurojust: how will that work

Gibril Massaquoi

Acquittal of Massaquoi: reality check for Finnish justice

Collection of portraits (archives) of victims of the

Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

Court hearing in a village in Kasai, DRC. The seven defendants in the Kamuina Nsapu trial are in the center, surrounded by soldiers and a crowd of villagers.

In Kasai, justice against all odds

Alexander Lukashenko surrounded by military (Russian and Belarusian flags)

How Lukashenko can be held accountable for Putin’s war in Ukraine

Iryna Venediktova and a man face the press. In the background, corpses wrapped in body bags, men and a crane.

War crimes in Ukraine: Bucha’s hell, through the eyes of a musician