Opinion

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 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...

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...