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Nigerian activist, Kellu Haruna, founder of the Knifar Movement which campaigned for victims who were killed and detained by the Nigerian army, was honoured with a portrait during ASP18. The...

Par Lambert Nigarura Depuis avril 2015, le Burundi est plongé  dans une grave crise  socio-politique. L’annonce du Président Pierre Nkurunziza comme candidat à sa propre succession, en violation de l’Accord...

December begins in The Hague with the annual session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the managerial oversight and legislative body of the International Criminal Court. The meeting of...

By Judy Mionki and Kate Orlovsky, International Bar Association ICC & ICL Programme For most International Criminal Court (ICC) detainees at the  Detention Unit in Scheveningen, The Hague, home is...

By Rosemary Tollo in The Hague An experts’ report about how the Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court collapsed has begun to unravel after it emerged that critical actors...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague Is starving civilians in a civil war “less bad” than starving civilians in a war between states? Switzerland proposes to make the intentional starvation...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague It can be said about any meeting about complex issues that participants and observers must have read the documents that are being talked about,...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague When two ICC judges acquitted Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé in January 2019, they were quite rightly accused of a violation of the...

By Anushka Sehmi On April 12, 2019, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) rejected a request by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation into...

By Luis Moreno Ocampo, founding ICC chief prosecutor Where should the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) open new investigations? The answer to that question will define the next...