Film Review: Mending women’s bodies broken in DRC war
Eastern Congo has earned the dubious title of being the rape capital of the world. It is estimated that 48 women are raped every hour – over 1,000 every day ...
Month: December 2016
Bensouda challenges UN security council to end impasse on Darfur
Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, before the United Nations Security Council on the Situation in Darfur, pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005) Thank you for the opportunity to present my ...
Thaw in relations as African Union officials meet ICC staff
Frosty relations between the International Criminal Court and the African Union appeared to thaw this week after officials from the two institutions met at a two-day retreat in Addis Ababa, ...
Was Zuma the worst tragedy to befall the African Union?
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Whether it was the Ebola outbreak, drowning of African refugees in the Mediterranean, famines, the return of the god-President, the International Criminal Court or popular uprisings ...
What victims want from the Dominic Ongwen trial
By Paolina Massidda The armed conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (the LRA) in Northern Uganda – described as the worst forgotten humanitarian crisis in ...
Prosecutor’s statement at the opening of the Dominic Ongwen trial
Honourable Judges, This trial is about violence and misery that blighted the lives of millions of people living in Northern Uganda. Ordinary civilians, who simply wanted to be allowed to ...
ICC judges decline to excuse Ongwen on account of a mental illness
By Kwamchetsi Makokha Dominic Ongwen’s trial opening was briefly thrown into a tailspin after he declined to plead to 70 charges facing him at the International Criminal Court. Judges were ...
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