From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
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Establishing whether a genocide is happening in Ethiopia requires an independent and objective investigation – which probably won’t happen.
Despite the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into potential war crimes dating back to 2014, legal accountability will likely remain elusive.
Forced sterilization of Indigenous women was a covert part of ‘family planning’ under Fujimori. Over 200,000 Peruvians underwent tubal ligations between 1996 and 2001 – many without their consent.
Between 1992 and 1994, the former regime is said to have imported 581 tonnes of machetes into Rwanda. This figure appears to establish that the genocide was planned. But is this number accurate?
The court’s decision has wider implications for international criminal law.
Given the contested success of transitional justice in Rwanda, the arrest showcases the mixed record of international justice.
There is no responsibility to protect people from pandemics – but the world must still safeguard those at risk of mass atrocities.
There are many hurdles to a successful prosecution of individuals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But trying to seek justice is not a futile exercise.
The African Union’s staunch support for al-Bashir, cloaked in criticism of the International Criminal Court, denied justice to the millions affected by the conflict in Sudan.
Ousted president Omar al-Bashir could face the International Criminal Court for his role in Sudan’s clampdown on the non-Arab people of Darfur.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
With the ICC facing intense criticism and scrutiny, its member states have met to create a plan to improve the court’s standing and performance.
Scientific advances are allowing forensic archaeologists to shed light on mysteries long thought unsolvable.
Destroying the Amazon rainforest will accelerate climate change, harming millions. Can those responsible be prosecuted?
Ntaganda’s conviction represents real progress, and an actual significant victory, for the ICC.
Cooperation with the Sudanese government to try al-Bashir could amount to legitimising those who themselves have been implicated in genocide
Giving up means giving the Assad regime and Russia both a strategic and intellectual victory with incalculable consequences for global security.
The recent acquittals should be seen as a vindication of the ICC as an independent and impartial judicial institution.
The volatile conditions in the Central African Republic make the administration of justice difficult.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Adjunct Professor of Mass Atrocities Prevention, Georgetown University; University of Connecticut
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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non-resident senior fellow Center for European Policy Analysis
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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sociologue (Institut des mondes africains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Tasmania
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor in International Law, NRF Research Chair in International Law, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
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Challis Chair of International Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Professor, Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria