Commentary

By Chief Charles A. Taku The election of Fatou Bensouda as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on December 12, 2011 brought a sigh of relief to many...

Fatou Bensouda is scheduled to hand the role of chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to Karim Khan on June 16, 2021. She took office on June 14, 2012,...

By Prof. Jennifer Trahan in New York The election of the next ICC Prosecutor is obviously extremely significant; the direction of the Court for the next nine years is at...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague For the first time in history there will be a vote on Friday on who should become the new chief prosecutor of the International...

This week, as commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence approaches its peak, thousands of victims of sexual violence committed during the 2007-08 post-election violence (PEV) in...

By Susan Kendi A hush has fallen on the International Criminal Court as judges deliberate on the fate the Lord’s Resistance Army commander who was charged with crimes against humanity,...

By Susan Kendi For over a decade, the victims and families of those raped and massacred in the stadium in Conakry, Guinea have never received justice. June 2020 begins of...

By Susan Kendi Realising a conflict-free continent is the dream of every African. Ahead of the 33rd AU Summit we highlight the current hotspots; the  root causes of conflicts; the...

By Susan Kendi The International Criminal Court judges will in due course give a landmark ruling on the prosecutor’s request to open an investigation into the alleged crimes committed in...

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...