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Kenya's Message to the West

Daniel Wagner | Posted 03.25.2013 | World
Read More: Syria, Corruption, Johnnie Carson, Colonialism, William Ruto, Beijing, Death Squads, East Africa, Giorgio Cafiero, Obama Administration, Nairobi, China, Raila Odinga, Transparency, Iran, Uhuru Kenyatta, Nepotism, Icc, Transparency International, Human Rights, Daniel Wagner, John Kerry, 2007 Election, Sudan, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Kenya, Country Risk Solutions, South Sudan, Harakat Al-Shabaab, Usafricom, Foreign Affairs, World News
Daniel Wagner

Uhuru Kenyatta's disputed election to the presidency of Kenya earlier this month raises a host of questions regarding its legality, Kenyatta's indictment at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and whether Kenya will become isolated as a result.

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Speaking Openly in Serbia

John Feffer | Posted 03.22.2013 | World
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Serbia, The Hague, Human Rights, Slobodan Milosevic, World News, HIV/AIDS Serbia, World News
John Feffer

The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Serbia is comparatively low. Nevertheless, those who live with the disease report that they are stigmatized, ostracized, and have difficulties gaining access to treatment.

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Shining a Light on Human Rights and Justice Projects

Diana Jenkins | Posted 12.03.2012 | Impact
Read More: Icty, International Law, Ad Hoc Courts, International Justice, Ictr, UCLA Law Forum, Human Rights, Innovating Justice, Award, Icc, International Criminal Court, Hiil, The Hague, Impact News
Diana Jenkins

We created a platform that allows the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor to pose difficult legal questions that it faces to the world community, and we opened the discussion to the world.

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The Likes of Me

Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 01.20.2013 | World
Read More: War Crimes, The Hague, Serbia, Croatia, Srebrenica, Srebrenica Massacre, Operation Storm, International War Crimes, World News
Jasmina Tesanovic

A couple of days ago, the two former members of the Croatian military won a "not guilty" sentence in the Hague international war crime tribunal. I wa...

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Israeli Model Begs Tony Blair To Save Her Unlikely Lover

Posted 09.04.2012 | World
Read More: War Crimes, Libya, The Hague, Video, Arab Spring, Muammar Gaddafi, Dictator Debacles, Tony Blair, Foreign Affairs, Israeli-Actress, Orly Weinerman, Saif Gaddafi, World News

The playboy son of Muammar Gaddafi, on trial in Libya for killing protestors in the uprising that ended his father's regime, appears to have an unusua...

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Fit To Be Tried For Genocide

Reuters | Posted 09.12.2012 | World
Read More: The Hague, Mladic War Crimes Trial, Ratko-Mladic-Hospital, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, Bosnia, Reuters, Mladic Sick, Mladic Ill, Yugoslavia Genocide, Mladic Trial, Ratko Mladic Trial, Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, World News

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

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Justice for Atrocity Victims

Eric Schwartz | Posted 08.28.2012 | World
Read More: Rwanda, War Crimes, Libya, Srebrenica, Genocide, The Hague, International Criminal Court, World News
Eric Schwartz

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the start of world's first global court to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- widespread and systematic atrocities -- wherever they occur around the world.

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Court Rejects Mladic's Bid To Delay Trial

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 07.15.2012 | World
Read More: Mladic, The Hague, Mladic War Crimes Trial, Mladic War Crimes, Ratko Mladic, Ratko Mladic Trial, Mladic Trial, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, Video, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen....

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Going Dutch

Michael Hodin | Posted 06.30.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Retirement Age, European Debt Crisis, Baby Boomers, The Hague, Aging Population, Retirement, Netherlands, Aging-and-Retirement, Dutch, Ageing, Austerity, Fifty News
Michael Hodin

If the Dutch can manage to bring their forward-thinking social sensibility together with their fiscal prudence, they may end up setting a model that the rest of Europe and the world can follow.

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Sierra Leone: Landmark Conviction of Liberian Ex-President Charles Taylor

Human Rights Watch | Posted 06.26.2012 | World
Read More: War Crimes, The Hague, Liberia, Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone, Slideexpand, World News
Human Rights Watch

(The Hague) – The conviction on April 26, 2012, of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, for serious international crimes during Sier...

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Christopher Hitchens Meets Kim Jong Il and the Class of 2011

MP Nunan | Posted 02.18.2012 | Comedy
Read More: The Hague, Kim Jong Un, Osama Bin Laden, Qaddafi, Christopher Hitchens, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Kim Jong Il Dead, Kim Jong Il, Porn, Purgatory, Comedy News
MP Nunan

Inside what looks like the bar in an airport departures terminal. It's dimly lit, with dark wooden tables and faux leather chairs failing to give the ...

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UN Aims To Start Mladic Trial March 27

AP | Posted 02.07.2012 | World
Read More: Ratko Mladic, Mladic the Hague, Ratko Mladic Trial, Serbia, Balkan War, Ratko Mladic Balkan War, Serbia Mladic, Mladic Trial, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is aiming to start Gen. Ratko Mladic's genocide trial March 27, but Mladic and his law...

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Prosecutors Seek To Arrest Another Sudan Official For War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 02.01.2012 | World
Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, Sudan War Crimes, Darfur Sudan, Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, International Criminal Court, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor sought an arrest warrant Friday for Sudan's defense minister on crimes agai...

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Prosecutors Seek To Arrest Another Sudan Official For War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 02.01.2012 | World
Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, Sudan War Crimes, Darfur Sudan, Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, International Criminal Court, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court prosecutor sought an arrest warrant Friday for Sudan's defense minister on crimes agai...

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Memo to Mississippi: State's Violence, Poverty and Education Levels Key to Saving Lives, Not Initiative 26

Michael Shank | Posted 01.07.2012 | Women
Read More: Michael Shank, US Peace Index, Iniatitive 26, Institute for Economics and Peace, Abortion, Pro-Life, Mississippi, National Peace Academy, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, The Hague, Women News
Michael Shank

If the State of Mississippi is ultimately trying to save lives with Initiative 26 and reduce its high teenage pregnancy rate -- one of the highest in America -- it should focus on prevention instead.

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Terror Threat? Climate Change Shrinking Plants and Animals Part of Bigger Global Security Threat

Michael Shank | Posted 12.19.2011 | Green
Read More: National Peace Academy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, House Foreign Affairs Committee, United Nations, Richard Branson, Pacific Islands, Maldives, Global Warming, China, Britain, Climate Change, France, p5, Michael Shank, Security Council, Ban Ki-Moon, Russia, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Christian Science Monitor, Palau, The Hague, Green News
Michael Shank

This week's announcement that climate change is shrinking plant and animal species and is likely to have a negative impact on human nutrition in the f...

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U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta's Refusal to Cut Pentagon Spending Puts America at Greater Risk

Michael Shank | Posted 12.13.2011 | Politics
Read More: National Peace Academy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, US Defense Secretary, Michael Shank, Pentagon, George Washington, Leon Panetta, Paul Collier, Secretary of Defense, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Congress, Defense Spending, Super Committee, The Hague, Politics News
Michael Shank

Refusal by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Members of Congress, and now the Super Committee, to cut US defense spending puts our country on a dange...

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'Women, War & Peace' is a Must-See Series

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 12.13.2011 | Women
Read More: Women, Peter Bull, Oriana Zill De Granados, The Hague, Foca, Pbs, Sophia Loren, War, Jane Fonda, Klaus Barbie, Barbara Streisand, Matt Damon, Peace, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, I Came to Testify, Vittorio De Sica, Gini Reticker, Nuremberg Trials, Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan, Marshal Tito, Claudia Rizzi, Nina Chaudry, Sarajevo, Geena Davis, Disney, Women News
Barbara Probst Solomon

This groundbreaking series must be seen.

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Republican Presidential Candidates' Anti-EPA Extremism & Rep Darrell Issa's Effort to Enable Car Emissions

Michael Shank | Posted 12.03.2011 | Green
Read More: National Peace Academy, Tea Party Movement, House of Representatives, Climategate, Virginia Tea Party, Global Partnership for Teh Prevention of Armed Conflict, Michelle Bachman, Texas Tea Party, Newt Gingrich, Republican Presidential Candidates, Climate Change, Epa, Michael Shank, Rep Darrell Issa, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Rick Perry, Republican Party, Environmental Protection Agency, The Hague, Green News
Michael Shank

Since "climategate" first broke the news two years ago, American efforts to enact effective climate policy at the federal level have been significantly undermined by a confluence of events.

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On 10th Anniversary of Afghan War, Time to Exit Militarized US Foreign Policy

Michael Shank | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics
Read More: National Peace Academy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Pentagon, Cia, Leon Panetta, Somalia, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Counter-Terrorism, Yemen, Iraq, Afghan Local Police, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan War, Michael Shank, Wartime Contracting Commission, Brown University, Secretary of Defense, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Libya, Afghanistan, The Hague, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News
Michael Shank

October 7 marks the tenth anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan. After expending $4 trillion and thousands of lives, the US needs an exit from the depressing impasse of its militarized foreign policy.

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Dutch Royal House Denounced Over 'Racist' Painting

AP | By TOBY STERLING | Posted 11.16.2011 | Home
Read More: Nicolaas Van Der Waay, Dutch Roayl House, The Hague, Amsterdam, "Homage of the Colonies", Queen Beatrix, Royal Horse Carriage, Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina, Dutch Debts of Honor Committee, Holland, Jeffry Pondaag, UK Arts, Home News

AMSTERDAM -- Critics urged the Dutch royal family Friday to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands' co...

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Saki Knafo

Gaddafi And The Pursuit Of International Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.24.2011 | World
Read More: The Hague, Rumsfeld, Bush, Clinton, Gaddafi International Criminal Court, Libya War, International Justice, Gadhafi, Gaddafi's Arrest, Saif Gaddafi, Gaddafi, Libya, Human Rights, Moreno-Ocampo, Muammar Gaddafi, Gaddafi's Arrest ICC, Qaddafi, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Muamar Gaddafi, Icc, Colonel Gaddafi, Libya Protests, International Criminal Court, Jean Ping, World News

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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Settlement Reached Over Looted Painting

AP | Posted 10.15.2011 | Arts
Read More: Jan Steen, Nazi Looting, Museums, Hague, Looted Jan Steen, Marei Von Saher, Jan Steen Painting, Looted Art, Painting, UK Arts, Hague Museum, The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah, The Hague, Looted Painting, Arts News

AMSTERDAM -- Lawyers for the U.S. heir of a Jewish art dealer who lost many paintings while fleeing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands say she has...

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Balkan War Suspect Declines To Plead Before Tribunal

AP | By ARTHUR MAX | Posted 09.24.2011 | World
Read More: Balkan War, The Hague, Goran-Hadzic-Croatia, Yugoslav Wartime Tribunal, Goran Hadzic, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs declined to enter a plea Monday in his first court appearance to face charges of...

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Congo Selects Former Vice President As Opposition Presidential Candidate

AP | Posted 09.23.2011 | World
Read More: Jean-Pierre Bemba, Congo Presidential Election, The Hague, Congo, Congo Election, Democractic Republic of Congo, World News

KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo's opposition party says it has chosen former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba as its presidential candidate for November elec...

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