Africa is just like the West and needs to be treated as such. Yes, just like us when it comes to the crimes/justice that the ICC is tasked with. Justice demands a level playing field. Justice demands this because without justice before the bar we all become shadows.

Within a large convention hall in the suburbs of The Hague, The Netherlands, one of the most important matters in international justice is under debate, and sadly, only the most ardent stakeholders are paying attention.

It may come as a surprise to some, but the United Nations-Khmer Rouge Tribunal is working. This hybrid Cambodian-international tribunal is a joint enterprise worthy of strong support.

LIMA, Peru — Peruvians are reacting with widespread anger to a Supreme Court ruling that could allow the imminent release of military death squa...

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has appealed his war crimes and crimes against humanity convictions and his 50-y...

AMSTERDAM, July 13 (Reuters) - The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic will resume on Monday after doctors determined that ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic was rushed from a U.N. courtroom to a hospital Thursday, after complain...

By Tim Castle and Tessa Unsworth LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces are killing civilians in organised attacks on to...

I assume people have already tried stopping Kony with a boilerplate approach. But since he's still out there 26 years later, we know that didn't work.

It is my sincere hope that whatever political motivations have previously guided nations in the past vis-à-vis Iran, they will do what is clearly right and side with the people of Iran by voting to refer this case to the International Criminal Court at once.

As a tourist in Lhasa 24 years ago, Blake Kerr witnessed Chinese soldiers and police massacring unarmed Tibetans, inspiring him to begin documenting the underside of China's military occupation of Tibet.

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

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

Last week, human rights groups released a damning report documenting how ordinary Burmese convicts are brutally forced by the state to carry heavy munitions and supplies for the Burma Army, acting as human shields.

Dispatches from Daraa by Nadim Houry, senior Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch Syrian authorities have tried to keep the world from getting imag...

If China is genuinely interested in "regional peace and security," as it asserts, it should immediately suspend its financial, material, and practical support to Khartoum