We have a duty to bear witness against those who commit crimes against humanity. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Renown South African Jurist Richard Goldstone has completed a comprehensive report on the war crimes committed during the Israeli war started against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4, 2008.
Andrew Tarsy | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
Now, after more than a half-century of letting political leaders literally get away with murder, a new model of international justice is taking shape.
Colin Thomas-Jensen | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The U.N. will undermine its already limited credibility with frustrated Congolese civilians if this offensive against the FDLR goes ahead as planned.
Betwa Sharma | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
Darfur is lost in the wilderness of the law behind genocide. Whoever emerges the strongest will dictate, for the books, what happened in the region.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
Despite the claims of the Colombian government and those in the U.S. eager to consummate "free trade" pacts, the human rights situation in that country is deteriorating fast.
AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A judge at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Wednesday rejected challenges by Radovan Karadzic and said the U.N. court h...
Scott Gilmore | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Today's sentence against Fujimori is a victory against impunity, and a repudiation of the notion that government leaders are bound by no limits when it comes to national security.
Jon Santiago | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
Many people know that the U.S. has intervened in Latin American politics. Rarely do discussions of this proceed beyond a verbal slapping ourselves on the wrists for having "meddled."
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
"Never again" has turned into "once again," and history repeats itself with genocide in Darfur.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
American-Jewish organizations, which had for years supported Turkey's agenda on the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Congress, were incensed by Turkish condemnations of Israel.
AP | SUKHDEV CHHATBAR and DONNA BRYSON | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
ARUSHA, Tanzania — A former Rwandan army colonel was convicted Thursday of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings o...
Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 11.17.2009 | World