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Congo M23 Rebels Tell Their Story

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Icc, Al Jazeera English, Human Rights Watch, Amani Leo, m23, Bosco Ntaganda, Kivu, War, Joseph Kabila, Congo, Video, World News

Is the Congolese government of Joseph Kabila using the international press to wage a propaganda war against the new rebel fighters in eastern Congo? This is possible and probable given the amount of disinformation disseminated by the foreign press in recent days.

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President Obama Needs to Make a Phone Call Against Genocide

Rafael Medoff | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Malawi, Joyce Banda, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, President Obama, Genocide, Icc, Ineragency Atrocities Prevention Board, International Criminal Court, World News

The leader of a small, deeply impoverished African country this week did more to combat genocide than all of President Obama's envoys, advisers, and boards put together.

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Who Will Try Gaddafi's Son?

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Gaddafi, Libya, Gaddafi Order, Libya Seif Al Islam Gaddafi, Seif Al Islam Gaddafi Icc, Icc, Saif Al Islam Gadhafi, Gadhafi, Seif Al Islam Gaddafi, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Libyan authorities insisted Tuesday they can and will hold a fair trial for one of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons...

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Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: L.A., Black Hawk Down, Markets, At, Liberals, Homeland, Pakistan, Somalia, Violence, Usc, Ethiopia, Reagan, Ozarks, U.S. Homeland, Jason Russell Invisible Children, Africa, Atrocities, Emma, Warlord, Crotty, Poverty, Madonna, Atrocity Tourism, SEAL Team 6, Terrorism, Malawi, Stuff White People Like, Nonprofits, Ic, Los Angeles, Crenshaw, U2, Stop Kony Creator Arrested, Oprah, Frontier Market, Forbes, Brangelina, Jason Russell, Bruno the Film, USC Film School, Charity, Bruno, Osama Bin Laden, Meet the Press, Obama, Joseph Kony, Bush, Icc, Compton, Warlords, Kony 2012, Stop Kony, Atrocity Tourists, South Sudan, Uganda, Sacha Baron Cohen, Child Soldiers, Oj, George Clooney, Hollywood, Bin Laden, Global Markets, Meth, Iraq War, Cotton Subsidies, Sudan, Invisible Children, Capital, Rwanda, World News

Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.

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Reports: Gaddafi's Former Intelligence Chief Arrested

AP | RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Gaddafi, Abdullah Al Senoussi, Libya, Video, Gaddafi Intelligence Chief Arrested, Libya War, Icc, Abdullah Al Senoussi Arrested, Gadhafi, World News

TRIPOLI, Libya — Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Ghadafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising...

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Lessons From Lubanga

Morris Davis | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: War Crimes, Thomas Lubanga, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Genocide, Guantanamo, Icc, International Criminal Court, Dick Cheney, World News

Whether you can put a price on justice is an interesting philosophical argument, but it is possible to have a meaningful discussion about whether international crimes tribunals are worth the costs.

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Possible Mass Graves In Ivory Coast

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Laurent Gbagbo, Mass Grave, Ivory Coast Civil War, Alassane Ouattara, Mass Grave Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Duekoue, Duekoue, Icc, Ivory Coast, International Criminal Court, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Investigators with the International Criminal Court may have found mass graves in a western Ivory Coast town, a court official...

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What Happened to Congolese General Laurent Nkunda?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Hague Laurent Nkunda, History, Fdlr, Icc, Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Genocide, Massacre, Joseph Kabila, Media, Kiwanja, China, Congo, Truth, Rwanda, Tutsi, Hutu, Paul Kagame, Congo Walikale, Foreign Affairs, Video, World News

Why is the U.S. propping up the regime of Rwanda's Paul Kagame as it continues to trample on the free speech of those opposing his rule? Look no further than the new state of the art embassy in Kigali.

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ICC Releases Suspect For First Time Ever

AP | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: War Crimes, Rwanda, ICC Rwanda, Icc, Callixte Mbarushimana, International Criminal Court Releases Rebel, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court freed a Rwandan rebel Friday and returned him to France after dismissing murder and ra...

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Syria: 'Shoot to Kill' Commanders Named

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Syria, Crimes Against Humanity, Icc, Human Rights, Security Council, Bashar Al-Assad, Video, World News

Security Council Should Refer Syria to ICC for Crimes Against Humanity (London) – Former Syrian soldiers identified by name 74 commanders a...

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Human Rights Day 2011: Signals of Hope

William F. Schulz | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Ivory Coast Election, Turkey, Icc, Belarus, Arab Spring, Human Rights, Congo Rape, Tunisia, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Arab League, Libya, Occupy Wall Street, Myanmar, South Sudan, Human Rights Day, World News

2011 has been a momentous year. The Arab Spring alone promises to reshape the human rights landscape. Add to that the independence of South Sudan, the apparent opening in Myanmar and Occupy Wall Street, and you have the makings of a watershed year.

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Laurent Gbagbo Charged With Crimes Against Humanity

AP | MIKE CORDER and LAURA BURKE | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Video, Laurent Gbagbo, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, Icc, Moammar Gadhafi, Ivory Coast, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court Wednesday to fac...

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Unsolved Crimes In Libya

AP | By VANESSA GERA and RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Saif Al Islam Crimes Against Humanity, Libya, Video, Saif Al Islam Libya Trial, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya Human Rights Abuses, Libya Crimes Against Humanity, Icc, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Saif-Al-Islam-Trial, World News

By VANESSA GERA and RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya -- A leading international prosecutor viewed human bones and charred clothing...

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NATO Concerned By Possible ICC Investigation

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Icc, Nato Icc, Libya, Nato Libya, Nato, International Criminal Court Nato, International Criminal Court, World News

BRUSSELS — Members of NATO's governing body are discussing informally whether to direct alliance staff members to perform an internal legal revi...

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The Best Candidate for the Toughest Job

Kofi Annan | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Icc Prosecutor, Icc, Rome Statute, UN Security Council, Icc Statute, International Criminal Court Election, International Criminal Court, World News

The International Criminal Court Statute is a remarkable achievement. But politicizing the election process for the ICC Prosecutor would risk undoing this important achievement.

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Côte d'Ivoire: ICC Judges OK Investigation

Human Rights Watch | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Côte D'Ivoire, Icc, Ivory Coast, Africa, Alassane Ouattara, World News

(Brussels) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) judges took a major step to ensure justice for victims in Côte d’Ivoire by autho...

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The International 'Defiant' Camp and the Questions of Libya and Syria

Raghida Dergham | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Russia, Libya, Lebanon, Turkey, Un, China, Syria, Ntc, Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian Protests, Icc, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, UN Security Council, Libya Uprising, World News

The quicker the international community acts today to end the conflict in Libya, the quicker it would be saving lives and paving the way for the kind of relations that would uphold mutual respect and interests equally.

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Gaddafi And The Pursuit Of International Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.24.2011

When Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, announced on Monday morning that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had ...

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Libya: All Sides Obligated to Protect Civilians

Human Rights Watch | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Ntc, Libya, Icc, Muammar Gaddafi, World News

Internally displaced persons in areas now controlled by NTC forces need immediate protection. Dark-skinned Libyans face particular risks, because they have frequently been accused of fighting as pro-Gaddafi mercenaries from other African countries.

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Nyiramasuhuko: The Mother Who Awarded Rape For Murder

Sam Sasan Shoamanesh | Posted 10.09.2011

The wheels of international criminal justice may be slow, but turn they will, and as Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's case would come to illustrate, they can generate important judicial outcomes.

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Amnesty: War Crimes May Have Been Committed In Syria

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and BASSEM MROUE | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Syria, Icc, Syria War Crimes, Bashar Assad Syria, Bashar Assad, Syria Protests, International Criminal Court, World News

BEIRUT — The rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that Syrian security forces may have committed crimes against humanity during a d...

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Zak Pelaccio Launches The Cooking Room, A Public School Kitchen Classroom

Zak Pelaccio | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: The Cooking Room, Healthy, Zak Pelaccio, Zakary Pelaccio, Wellness, Education, Fci, Public School, Food, Icc, School Food, French Culinary Institute, Fatty 'Cue, Dorothy Hamilton, Fatty Crew, Fatty Crab, Tea, Food News

A classroom in a NYC Public School dedicated solely to teaching elementary school kids how to create tasty food with real, fresh, non-processed ingredients. I had never heard of anything like it.

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International Court Seeks Arrest Of Libyan Leader

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Muammar Gaddafi ICC, Moammar Gadhafi, Icc, Muammar Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi Arrest, Muammar Gaddafi International Criminal Court, Muammar Gaddafi Arrest Warrent, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor asked judges Monday to issue arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ...

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International Court Seeks Arrest Of 3 Unnamed Libyans

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Libya, ICC Libya, Icc, Libya News, Libya Prosecutions, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Wednesday that he will seek arrest warrants in the coming weeks against three ...

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International Court Expects Libyan Prosecution

AP | By BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, Icc, Libya, Libya Fighting, International Criminal Court, North Africa, Muammar Gaddafi, Arab World Unrest, Middle East, World News

CAIRO -- The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said Thursday he is "100 percent" certain that his investigation into attacks on Libyan protest...

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