Month: July 2016

By Thomas Verfuss After years of discussions, drafting and negotiations among lawyers, the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally has its bar association. The constitution of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) has ...

INTERVIEW IN FULL Q: All the Kenya cases at the ICC have collapsed. What do you think went wrong? First, I just want to express my dismay and sadness for ...

Two former Rwandan mayors have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Paris for crimes against humanity and genocide committed in 1994. This is the heaviest penalty for ...

By Désirè Assogbavi  Observers including citizens and their formations as well as non-African countries and other bodies are not invited to the African Union summit, which started in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday.  ...

Judges at the International Criminal Court have sunk the last hopes of Kenya’s post-election violence victims receiving court-ordered reparations. Two of the three Trial Chamber V(a) judges who terminated the ...

Ange-Felix Patassé was Central Africa Republic President in 1993-2003. By Journalists For Justice Ange-Felix Patassé, the man Jean-Pierre Bemba killed for, died in 2011 aged 74 when the war crimes ...

By Joyce J Wangui A dry smile papers over the embarrassment washing Charles Ondieki Gechemba’s face as he looks down on his crutches -- unable to rise to usher visitors ...

More than eight years since violence engulfed Kenya in the aftermath of the December 2007 election, survivors of rape and other sexual violence continue to experience significant physical and psychological ...

By Joyce J Wangui A dry smile papers over the embarrassment washing Charles Ondieki Gechemba’s face as he looks down on his crutches -- unable to rise to usher visitors ...