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Members of Burundi’s ruling party’s youth league, the Imbonerakure, have repeatedly gang-raped women since a wave of political protests began in 2015. Many of the rapes appear to have been aimed at...

International Criminal Court Outreach Coordinator, Maria Kamara, with some of the victims in the Dominic Ongwen case during one of the public meetings.  Dominic Ong’wen’s trial for 70 crimes against...

Even with the AU agreement to create a criminal chamber in the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the attempt to replace the International Criminal Court on the continent...

Video Highlights Problems in AU Approach. Activists from across Africa clarify misconceptions about the International Criminal Court (ICC) and highlight the need for African governments to support the court in a video released today...

By Thomas Verfuss After years of discussions, drafting and negotiations among lawyers, the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally has its bar association. The constitution of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) has...

INTERVIEW IN FULL Q: All the Kenya cases at the ICC have collapsed. What do you think went wrong? First, I just want to express my dismay and sadness for...

Two former Rwandan mayors have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Paris for crimes against humanity and genocide committed in 1994. This is the heaviest penalty for...

Judges at the International Criminal Court have sunk the last hopes of Kenya’s post-election violence victims receiving court-ordered reparations. Two of the three Trial Chamber V(a) judges who terminated the...

The Netherlands accepts that there are security risks as a consequence of the presence of the ICC in The Hague, and the competent services of the state take the necessary...

By Thomas VerfussThe International Criminal Court (ICC) should drop the case against Saif al-Islam Gadaffi. The son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi has already been tried and sentenced to death...