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There’s Another Court in The Hague
Government suppression of revolts in several Arab nations and violence and rights abuses in some parts of Africa have drawn increased attention to the International Criminal Court, the first such...
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The International Criminal Court’s Stance on Torture
People in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, watching the International Criminal Court's trial against Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice president of Congo accused of rapes and killing...
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The Ultimate War Crimes Expert, Back in the Game
Kaing Guek Eav, called Duch, received a life sentence on Feb. 3, 2012, at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes trial for running Tuol Sleng prison, which tortured and sent at least 12,000 people to...
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Defending the International Criminal Court From the Outside
Stephen Rapp, left, US ambassador at large, with John Washburn of the American Nongovernmental Organizations Coalition for the ICC, at Columbia Law School. AMICC/Hannah DunphyThe International Criminal...
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Charles Taylor, 64, Receives 50-Year Sentence for War Crimes
Charles Taylor being escorted in 2006 with a security guard and a UN peacekeeper. Taylor's hands, under the coat, are handcuffed. PETER C. ANDERSONCharles Taylor, the former Liberian president who was...
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Can Making Amends to Victims of Atrocities Actually Help?
The International Criminal Court holding a meeting with Muslim women in Bangui, Central African Republic, to acquaint them with court proceedings, particularly the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a...
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Rape in War: It’s Not a Given Any Longer
In Cartagena, Colombia, participants at an event sponsored by the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict. A concerted push by the chief prosecutor for the International...
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The Quest for Peace and Calm in the Pacific
KANDY, Sri Lanka — As the focus of global political and economic power shifts to the Asia-Pacific region and the United States feels compelled to pivot its strategic forces from the Atlantic to the...
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The International Court Judge’s Fight for Justice
Judge Sang-Hyun Song, the president of the International Criminal Court, at its 10th anniversary celebration, held at the Ridderzaal, or Knights Hall, in The Hague on Nov. 14, 2012. ICC-CPIThe...
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Khmer Rouge Leader Dies, a New Blow to a Stagnant UN Tribunal
Ieng Sary, a co-founder and the third-highest official in the murderous Khmer Rouge movement that decimated Cambodian society in the 1970s, died in a Phnom Penh hospital on March 14 at age 87. The...
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Rape as a Weapon of War? It’s Still in Business
The actress Angelina Jolie spoke as a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency on June 24, 2013, at a Security Council debate on sexual violence in conflicts. The Guatemalan delegation,...
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UN War Crimes Archives Trove Released to International Court
German defendants in the docket at the Nuremberg trial, circa 1945-46. From left, front row: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. WAR CRIMES RECORDSThe International...
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Nobody Wants This Bosnian Serb War Criminal
Radislav Krstic, the first person to be convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 2001. Tribunal authorities have yet to find a permanent home for his...
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The International Criminal Court Fends Off ‘Ferocious’ Attack, Prosecutor Says
Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, at the opening of the Kenyan trial of William Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang, Sept. 10, 2013. ICC-CPIThe International Criminal Court’s...
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Signs of Transformation From the ‘Pink Ghetto of Gender’
A Chadian mother and daughter foraging for seeds in anthills during the 2012 famine crisis in the Sahel region of Africa. OXFAM INTERNATIONALOne question about women’s rights that may never go away is...
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Top Khmer Rouge Case Ends, With Future Trials Uncertain
Khieu Samphan, center, one of the last Khmer Rouge officials to face trial at the UN-Cambodia tribunal, which has heard final arguments.Almost four decades after the ideologically crazed communist...
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ICC Prosecutor Asks to Postpone Trial Against Kenyan President
Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, has asked for a three-month postponement in the trial for the case against the president of Kenya, Uhuru...
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Congolese Rebel Leader Faces Broad Charges of Sex Crimes
Bosco Ntaganda, a notorious rebel leader in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo for at least a decade, faces broad charges by the International Criminal Court of rape and sexual slavery in his own...
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Cambodian Tribunal Confronts New Hurdles
Nuon Chea, who was called Brother No. 2 as second in command to Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge who died in 1998, has been tried by a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his role in the deadly...
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Khmer Rouge Practiced Widespread Sexual Attacks on Minorities
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Until now, sexual violence against ethnic minorities during the Khmer Rouge era in this country went largely ignored. Now for the first time, the Cambodian Defenders Project, one...
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