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Legal academic Olivera Simic spent eight years talking to a war criminal prosecuted for crimes against humanity who receives fan-mail today.
At the end of World War II, many Nazi war criminals fled to Australia. A new book tells the stories of the investigators who tried to bring them to justice.
Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes during the Holocaust.
Former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz has pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder. The case may raise previously untested laws both in Australia and globally.
It has taken over 20 years, and the ICC is under intense pressure, but this week’s conviction of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is a major win for international law.
Punishing groups of people as a reprisal for the actions of some is prohibited under international law.
Accusations of treason against former DRC president Joseph Kabila are evidence of the fallout between him and his successor.
The risks for individuals are profound. They could be involved in a protracted conflict and potentially exposed to future prosecution for crimes.
The wheels of international justice grind exceedingly slowly and will never be sufficient on their own to bring about lasting change.
The IDF says it will not implement the government’s plan to forcibly move Palestinians to a camp in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Victoria Amelina’s unfinished notebook was salvaged after she was killed by a missile. From a bunker, meanwhile, John Lyons reports on the war.
Drawing on her personal experience at the Hague, Gretchen Shirm’s novel Out of the Woods confronts the issues of murder and displacement, cruelty and loss.
Child soldiers are victims, not villains. This is why children in conflict zones must be protected.
The ICC is often criticised for being ineffective when it doesn’t act, and biased when it does.
Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.
The North Atlantic Fella Organisation has devised creative ways to support the Ukrainian cause – while navigating the complexities of content moderation.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed in civil war-torn Syria.
Wars always include killings and destruction, but there are limits. An expert in international law explains the rules of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions − and why they’re so hard to enforce.
The Brereton Inquiry recommended reassessing the Australian Defence Force’s ethics training approach. Four years later it’s improved a bit, but could be much better.
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