ICC Cases

By Millicent Zighe Carlos Castresana of Spain is one of the front runners in the race to succeed Fatou Bensouda as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in June....

By Susan Kendi Former Lord’s Resistance Army Commander Dominic Ongwen is guilty of 61 of the 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity he had been accused of,...

By Susan Kendi Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today (February 4, 2021) delivered its ruling in the trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen....

By Tom Maliti International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors said on Tuesday that as a commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Dominic Ongwen willingly committed the war crimes and crimes...

  By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague From his Scheveningen prison cell Kenyan Paul Gicheru has appointed veteran American defence lawyer Michael G. Karnavas to represent him before the International...

Kenya’s High Court has awarded four million Kenya shillings each as general damages to four survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) that occurred during political turmoil 12 years ago....

This time states wanted to do things well. In the past, the appointment processes of high international justice officials have often been criticized as opaque, interest-driven, behind-closed-doors dealing, horse-trading and...

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 The victims of the violence that followed the disputed December 2007 presidential election in Kenya are back in the news. A lot of heat has been generated...

It is a good thing, of course, that the founding mothers and fathers put provisions in the Rome Statute that allow the International Criminal Court (ICC) to request states to...