Month: September 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for a global ceasefire and asked the world to halt all hostilities for 24 hours to commemorate the International Day of Peace. ...

By Waceke Njoroge Three judges will hear a compensation request that Ivorian Charles Blé Goudé, who was acquitted of crimes against humanity, has filed before the International Criminal Court. The ...

By Janet Sankale International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan QC has appointed 17 special advisers. A press release from the ICC’s Public Affairs Unit said Khan had, for the first ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council has been asked to adopt a resolution to extend its support for human rights reform and monitoring in Sudan during its 48th regular session, ...

By Janet Sankale The stage has been set for Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru’s first status conference before the International Criminal Court next week as the prosecution and defence completed the ...

The arraignment before the Special Criminal Court of one of the Central African Republic’s most wanted suspects has set the troubled country on a new path to justice. Captain Eugène ...

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers are set to start hearing their first war crimes case this week. The trial against former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader Salih Mustafa will start at ...

By Janet Sankale The first trial in the situation in Darfur, Sudan, is scheduled to start before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on April 5, 2022. Former Janjaweed ...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague The Netherlands has taken a step to right an injustice that resulted from slavery by allowing descendants of former slaves who want to change ...

By Janet Sankale Essa Faal, a former lawyer at the ICC and lead counsel at The Gambia’s truth commission, has announced his intention to run for the presidency in his ...