Last week we celebrated a long and hard fought human rights victory: the conviction of Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of using children in armed conflict.
Video of child soldiers and interviews with (former) child soldiers, filmed...
0 Comments | Posted December 10, 2011 | 10:33 AM
In 2011, tens of millions of people took to the streets in protest to defend their human rights. With the help of cell phones, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, we have been able to monitor and track violations taking place all across the world. Even in Syria, where no journalists are...
0 Comments | Posted February 4, 2009 | 2:52 PM
In a small and relatively inconspicuous courtroom in Holland, not far from where I, as a child, spent countless hours building sandcastles on the beach, a landmark case unfolds. The International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first war crimes tribunal, commenced its first trial Monday Jan 26, 2009 -- the...
3 Comments | Posted March 19, 2012 | 3:11 PM