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Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab will visit The Hague on Monday Providing UK legal expertise and technical support to the International Criminal Court UK to bring together broad coalition of countries to help war crimes…

In a lifetime of major accomplishments, US Federal Judge Mark Wolf is on a mission to top them all. As a U.S. federal prosecutor in the 1980s, Wolf's Public Corruption Unit won more than 40 consecutive convictions, including for…

On Thursday, the accused Ali El Haddad Asufi was questioned by the special criminal court on his possible involvement in helping the Paris killers of November 2015 to obtain the Kalashnikov machine guns used in the attacks. Asufi admits he…

“Faced with such open illegality, is this court completely powerless to arrest him?” asked Harold Hongju Koh, one of the lawyers representing Ukraine, in court on Monday. A professor of international law at Yale University, Koh served as…

By Mario Arpino War Crimes. This is the American accusation of Russia's war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that the United States was "documenting" possible war crimes by Russia and condemned the…

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague announced this week that he would open an investigation into possible war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ukraine. How likely is Putin or other Russian political or…

In statements exclusive to Prensa Latina, the magistrate pointed out that "the failed and unsuccessful sub-president of Colombia is not the one who says in a scenario like the International Criminal Court, that sanctions will come for…

Lawyer Paul Gicheru during an interview with The standard at its office in Nairobi. February 4, 2021. Six witnesses who were lined up to testify against lawyer Paul Gicheru are unlikely to appear before the International Criminal…

By Otieno Otieno Kenya's Vice President William Ruto has called on the international community to closely monitor campaigns for the country's general elections in August, citing recent violent skirmishes seen at his public…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu had a genius for speaking truths that the powerful tried to avoid hearing. (Photo: John Lamparski / Getty Images) Bishop Desmond Tutu, who passed away sunday at 90, had a genius for speaking truths the…

Activists take part in a rally to protest the escalating war on drugs of President Rodrigo Duterte, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, August 18, 2017. REUTERS / Dondi Tawatao / File PhotoRegister now for FREE and unlimited…

"THERE WAS lots of blood everywhere, ”Patricia recalls, her voice broken. She survived the night of 1990 when government soldiers shot dead around 600 civilians who had taken shelter from the civil war in Liberia at the…

This is the latest installment of It's Still a Big World, our bimonthly series on underrated destinations.The wind was blowing at about 20 miles an hour, so the elastic tower at the end of the pier was closed. It was a Tuesday in August…

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said he would retire rather than continue as vice president next year, a surprise reversal of a plan to keep him in government after his presidential term ends .It is still possible…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, nicknamed the “Butcher of Tehran” because of his involvement in murders, genocides and human rights abuses, avoided attending the United Nations General Assembly in New…

October 2, 2021TIN YEARS A few years ago, when Muammar Gaddafi had a gruesome end after 42 years in power, no one thought that a member of his family could one day find himself in charge of Libya. During the Arab Spring, a wave of…

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/climateconnections/CX210930.mp3 The International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Netherlands only prosecutes four categories of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, the crime of…

The secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council has warned that the Afghan economy is on the verge of collapse. Jan Egeland, who is in Kabul, said the country was facing a humanitarian disaster. He warned that the formal banking…

Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday evening that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's demand that Israel withdraw from the 1967 borders within a year was "a big tree that will be hard to come down from. ". In the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A 59-year-old man described as an "incorrigible and calculating criminal" was convicted on Friday of stealing a painting by Vincent van Gogh and another by Frans Hals from two Dutch museums last year,…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defended his controversial war on drugs at the United Nations General Assembly, a week after the Hague-based International Criminal Court approved an investigation…

In August, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi announced that the country would surrender all suspects indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes committed in Darfur from…

According to Human Rights Watch, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group whose stated goal was to create a state based on the Biblical 10 Commandments, has kidnapped and killed tens of thousands of people over the years.…

MANILA, Philippines - Senators, the Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Philippine Integrated Bar did not have the legal capacity to challenge the government's withdrawal from the Rome…

People protest the Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline project outside the Governor's Mansion in St Paul, Minn. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images) To subscribe to The nation Subscribe…

After his much-mentioned return to Côte d'Ivoire on June 17, former President Laurent Gbagbo chose the DRC for his first trip abroad. Here's why. Laurent Gbagbo was to arrive in Kinshasa by a commercial flight on July…

By Valentin Obara The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has recused himself from leading the case against Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru.Khan, who took over from Fatou Bensouda two weeks ago,…

British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan QC was sworn in today to begin his nine-year term as prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Khan made his solemn pledge and officially took office in a ceremony…

In his typically convincing candidacy for the post of Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan left no doubt that even after a successful legal career as QC and Deputy…

THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Monday that she had requested permission to open an investigation into the Philippine government's murderous crackdown on drug-related crime.Fatou Bensouda said that a…

The Guardian's decision to embrace and give the platform Hutu-Power figures and their talking points caught the attention of Rwandans. Recently, a convicted criminal, Victoire Ingabire, was allowed to deceive the public…

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, on March 31, 2021. ICC-CPI / Document via REUTERS Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo plans to return home on…

Chile: case against Piñera brought to the Hague for alleged human rights violations in 2019 Friday, April 30, 2021 - 08:46 UTC…

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In the fall of 2019, more than 30 people were killed during protests against the healthcare system. A complaint has now been filed against Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Santiago de!-->…

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo smiled discreetly under his mask and gave his lawyer two thumbs up upon hearing the verdict. When Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court…