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1 Sep 2010, 7:35 am
[JURIST] UN Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict Margot Wallstrom [EU profile] on Tuesday called for an end to impunity for leaders of militias and armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] for conducting mass rapes, saying that perpetrators would face war crimes charges [UN News Centre report]. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 11:58 am
On January 25, 2023, the European Society of International Law's Peace and Security Interest Group, in association with the University of Zürich's Institute for International and Foreign Constitutional Law and the Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights, will hold a webinar on "The War in Ukraine, International Law, and Regional Peace and Security. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 12:56 pm
The airstrikes occurred in the early morning hours of February 16, and AI argues that indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, such as this attack by the Egyptian military, amount to war crimes. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 1:30 pm
[JURIST] Former Croatian military commander and senior interior minister Tomislav Mercep [official profile, in Croatian] pleaded not guilty Friday for war crimes committed against Serbians during the 1990s conflict in the Balkans. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 8:17 am
Mladic is one of two high-level targets still at large under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] and faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly overseeing the Srebrenica massacre and other war crimes violations during the... [read post]
2 Jun 2004, 4:44 am
The trials will be a test of whether the tribunal, a hybrid of international and local law, will serve as a model for future war crimes courts. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 12:06 pm
The court charged Mbarushimana, a former UN employee, with five counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes for acts committed by the FDLR in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in 2009. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 1:00 am
[JURIST] The Special Court for Sierra Leone [official website] on Monday resumed the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [SCSL case materials; JURIST news archive] with testimony from the prosecution's first witness, a Canadian expert on so-called "blood diamonds" who told the court that the diamond trade prompted Liberia's role in Sierra Leone's civil war. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 1:13 pm
[JURIST] The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Libya submitted its findings [report, PDF] on Friday, reporting that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both sides of the recent Libyan conflict [JURIST backgrounder]. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 10:28 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] accepted a plea agreement [press release] on Tuesday in which Jelena Rasic, the case manager for Bosnian war criminal Milan Lukic, pleaded guilty [amended indictment, PDF] to five counts of contempt against the tribunal. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 5:05 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] said Tuesday that the numerous executions [press release] that have occurred over the past week in Iraq "almost certainly amount[] to war crimes. [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 3:07 pm
ANNAPOLIS — A bill to revise the state song of Maryland to remove Civil War-era references to “Northern scum” and other phrases deemed offensive has stalled in the state House, a leading lawmaker said Thursday. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The UN commission of inquiry for the Syrian Arab Republic [official website] reported on Friday that the Islamic State (IS) is responsible for war crimes [report, PDF] on a "massive scale" in Syria. [read post]
21 Feb 2006, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] Reuters is reporting that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC profile] has been arrested, according to Serbian news sources. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 9:31 am
[JURIST] Two Sudanese men suspected [pre-trial materials] of committing war crimes related to the ongoing violence in the Darfur [JURIST news archive] region of Sudan agreed earlier this week not to contest the charges [briefing text, PDF] during an upcoming International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] confirmation hearing, marking the first waiver of its kind for the ICC. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 9:23 am
Professor Peter Honigsberg's new book, Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror, is now available! [read post]
15 Mar 2005, 5:00 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued its final indictment on Tuesday, after over a decade of bringing war criminals to justice. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 1:42 am
[JURIST] Russia has extradited Dragan Zelenovic [ICTY case backgrounder], a Bosnian Serb wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] to Bosnia, according to the Bosnian war crimes court on Friday. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 8:06 pm
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court judge overseeing the war crimes trial [ICC press release] of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga [TrialWatch profile; JURIST news archive] has expressed a desire to have the trial moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive], according to Tuesday reports. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 10:31 am
[JURIST] Nazi-hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center [advocacy website] Efraim Zuroff told [BBC report] the BBC Monday that he is certain that wanted Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria four years ago. [read post]
