International Criminal Court

ICC Turns Ten: A Measure of Justice

Kip Hale | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Human Rights Violations, American Bar Association, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights, International Law, Diplomacy, International Relations, International Criminal Court, International Humanitarian Law, World News

In this tenth year of the ICC, it is an appropriate time to take stock of the Court's progress in its primary mission: end impunity through the just rule of law.

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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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The Security Council Who Cried Wolf

Brigitte Hamadey | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Darfur, Libya, Kony 2012, UN Security Council, Invisible Children, Muammar Gaddafi, Sudan, International Criminal Court, Home News

One of the ICC's major realities is that it relies entirely on states to arrest and surrender accused to the Court. In this respect, state cooperation gives teeth to the ICC's bark.

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Stretching the Long Arm of the Law

Jeffrey Laurenti | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, International Criminal Court, Sierra Leone War Crimes, Liberia War Crimes, Charles Taylor War Crimes, Charles Taylor Liberia, World News

It seems only natural that the international community should crank up judicial machinery to enforce the rule of law against humanity's most heinous crimes in places where no working national court system can provide justice. Let's just get on with it.

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Prosecution Wants 80 Years For President

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Charles Taylor Icc, Charles Taylor Trial, Blood Diamonds, Video, Charles Taylor, Liberia President Charles Taylor, Liberia, Charles Taylor War Crimes, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Civil War, International Criminal Court, Charles Taylor Criminal Charges, World News

AMSTERDAM — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor deserves an 80-year sentence for the war crimes he was convicted of last week, including ai...

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After Charles Taylor, Justice for Haiti?

Michael Deibert | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Charles Taylor, Jean Claude Duvalier, International Criminal Court, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, Human Rights, World News

It is time that the government of Haitian president Michel Martelly and Haiti's parliament ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and give the victims of Haiti the justice that they have so long been denied.

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DR Congo: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda for ICC Trial

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: War Crimes, Bosco Ntaganda, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Child Soldiers, International Criminal Court, Video, World News

(Goma) –President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo should immediately order the arrest of Gen. Bosco Ntaganda and promptly tran...

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Annan Issues Cease-Fire for Syria

Gideon Resnick | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Civil War, President Barack Obama, Kofi Annan, Peace, Bashar Al-Assad, Arab Spring, Syria Uprising, International Criminal Court, Syria Cease-Fire, Syria Peace Plan, Cease-Fire, College News

With no willingness on the part of other countries to intervene militarily, the cease-fire planned for Thursday may be the only thing that could prevent Syria from breaking into a complete civil war.

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Syria: Extrajudicial Executions

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: War Crimes, Syria, Human Rights, International Criminal Court, Video, World News

(New York) – Syrian security forces summarily executed over 100 – and possibly many more – civilians and wounded or captured opposit...

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The Dream Team Initiative

Ming Holden | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Innovation, International Development, International Criminal Court, Impact News

I'd like to drop a dream team into developing nations.

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Syria: Local Residents Used as Human Shields

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Syria, Human Rights, Human Shields, International Criminal Court, United Nations, Video, World News

Reports of Residents Forced to March in Front of Soldiers in Idlib (Antakya, Turkey) – Syrian government forces have endangered local residents...

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Two Warlords, American Policy Hypocrisy and the Power of Social Media

Dennis Jett | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Lords Resistance Army, International Criminal Court, Obama ICC, Kony Obama LRA, ICC United States, Bush International Criminal Court, Kony 2012, America Human Rights, United States ICC, Thomas Lubanga ICC, Politics News

Two African warlords were in the news in the last week and they did more than remind the world of their barbarity. One demonstrated the power of the social media. The other demonstrated the hypocrisy of the United States.

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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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Congolese Warlord Convicted Of Using Child Soldiers

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jean-Pierre Bemba, Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, Thomas Lubanga, Video, Laurent Gbagbo, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Union of Congolese Patriots, Angelina Jolie, Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, Congo, Adrian Fulford, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Thomas Lubanga and Joseph Kony are accused of leading jungle militias that turned African children into killers. While ...

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Social-Media Campaign Aims To Take Down World's No. 1 War Criminal (TAKE ACTION)

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Video, Activism, Child Soldiers, Africa, Lra, Kony 2012, Uganda, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, Slidepollajax, Jason Russell, International Criminal Court, Stop Kony, Impact News

Joseph Kony is not exactly a household name in the United States. Of course, few rebel leaders in sub-Saharan Africa are -- even ones like Kony, whom ...

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Investigating Kenya: What's In A Name?

Seth Engel | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Human Rights, Kenya, William Schabas, Myanmar, Africa, International Justice, Callixte Mbarushimana, Impunity, London Riots, Syria, International Criminal Court, World News

Let's hope that the next cases brought in the ICC are winners with real "organizational policies" committing the most serious of crimes.

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American War Crimes: Commanders' Responsibility

Seth Engel | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Violence, Geneva Conventions, War Crimes, Vietnam, International Criminal Court, Marines Urinating, Marines Urinating Taliban, Crime News

As with any country involved in violent trauma, critically reflecting upon the crimes' occurrence, causes and prevention is a necessary process for the sake of the population's own mental well-being. After 9/11, America replaced self-reflection with going to war.

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Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians Think

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Iraq War, u.s. Foreign Policy, American Century, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations Peacekeeping Force, United Nations, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, International Law, Internationalism, Afghanistan War, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, International Criminal Court, Politics News

Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so.

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The Libya Trial -- Victor's Justice at the ICC?

Seth Engel | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Libya, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Kenya, Alassane Ouattara, International Law, Ivory Coast, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya Criminal Court, International Criminal Court Libya, World News

There are certain crimes -- be they war crimes or crimes against humanity -- that are illegal, no matter what your position in society or in which nation you reside.

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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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In the Land of Blood and Honey: Bosnia, 20 Years Later

Kal Raustiala | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Angelina Jolie, International Criminal Court, Angelina Jolie Serbia, Bosnia Jolie Film, Jolie Film Genocide, War Crimes Film, World News

War and genocide in the former Yugoslavia will be thrust back into the spotlight this month with the release of In the Land of Blood and Honey, a film written and directed by Angelina Jolie.

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Releasing Callixte: the Best Decision the ICC Has Ever Made

Seth Engel | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: International Law, Criminal Justice, Muammar Gaddafi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kim Jong Il, Callixte Mbarushimana, International Criminal Court, World News

It's easy to say that dictators, tyrants or terrorists are guilty and deserve to be shot. It is important to remember, however, that we no longer live in an age where we can summarily execute those who are responsible for the gravest of atrocities.

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Gaddafi Son Reportedly Without Lawyer

AP | By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Libya, Human Rights Watch Libya, Zintan Fighters, Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch, Seif Al-Islam, Seif Al Islam Captured, Libya Protests, International Criminal Court, World News

CAIRO -- Moammar Gadhafi's captured son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, is being treated well but has not had access to a lawyer, an intern...

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'Serious Suspicions' Surround Gaddafi's Death

AP | By EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Libya, Muammar Gaddafi Death, Video, Luis Moreno Ocampo, UN Security, Muammar Gaddafi, Gaddafi Death, United Nations, National Transitional Council, International Criminal Court, World News

UNITED NATIONS -- The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Thursday there are "serious suspicions" that the death of Libyan lead...

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