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United Nations Reports on Genocide of Yazidis

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ICC: Kenya Deputy President’s Case Ends

ICC: Kenya Deputy President’s Case Ends: Witness Interference Undermined Trial Human Rights Watch 05 April 2016    Image: A man walks through ruins of an area of Chepilat in the Rift Valley Province, February 2008. The burning of homes by Kalenjin men, forced residents of both the Kisii and the Kikuyu ethnic groups to flee. © 2008 Marcus Bleasdale/VII   (Brussels) – Efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring to

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Why South Africa is Wrong to leave the International Criminal Court

Why South Africa is Wrong to leave the International Criminal Court Saul Musker, The Guardian 14 October 2015     Image: Jacob Zuma at a UN lunch during the recent general assembly in New York. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/dpa/Corbis When South African president Jacob Zuma confirmed he was planning to withdraw the country from the international criminal court, he was careful to claim the moral highground. “In the eyes of the African

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War Crimes Court Opens Trial on Congolese Witness Tampering

War Crimes Court Opens Trial on Congolese Witness Tampering Marlise Simons, New York Times 29 September 2015   Image: Jean-Pierre Bemba is alleged to have corruptly influenced testimony of witnesses in war crimes trial over alleged atrocities committed by his MLC militia. Photograph: Peter de Jong/EPA Copyright: The Guardian PARIS — A former Congolese vice president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, and four of his associates went on trial Tuesday at the

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Persecuted by Islamic State, Yazidis turn to ICC for Justice

Persecuted by Islamic State, Yazidis turn to ICC for Justice Toby Sterling, Reuters 24 September 2015   Image: Kurdish peshmerga forces carry coffins, draped with Kurdish flags, containing the remains of Yazidis who were killed by militants of the Islamic State, during a burial ceremony at Mazar Sharaf al-Din, north of Sinjar Mountain, August 13, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL   Advocates for the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, who have been

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War Crimes Trial Opens for Congolese Rebel Leader

War Crimes Trial Opens for Bosco Ntaganda, Congolese Rebel Leader Marlise Simons, New York Times 2 September 2015   Image: Bosco Ntaganda, center, a Congolese militia leader known as The Terminator, waited for the start of his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday. Credit Pool photo by Michael Kooren   PARIS — Bosco Ntaganda is not the first person accused of war crimes to appear voluntarily before

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Budget Cuts Challenge the ICC

The ICC: Too important to let fail Elizabeth Evenson, The Globe and Mail 07 Aug 2015 Image: The International Criminal Court has struggled to find enough resources to investigate post-election violence in Ivory Coast in 2010-2011. (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images) This month, the International Criminal Court will present its budget request for next year to the court’s 123 members, including Canada. The ICC is the only permanent global court with

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U.S. inaction on Syria helped make it a hell on earth (Editorial)

U.S. inaction on Syria helped make it a hell on earth By Editorial Board, The Washington Post 23 May 2014 Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Syria. Western powers and human rights group condemned the veto, and rightly so. But let’s get real. The threat of an investigation by jurists in The Hague would not deter Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

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Russia and China Block Security Council Move to Prosecute Syria War Crimes

Russia and China Block Security Council Move to Prosecute Syria War Crimes By Rick Gladstone, The New York Times 22 May 2014 Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have empowered the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute war crimes in Syria, defying widespread support for such a move by human rights advocates and many United Nations members including the United States. It was the fourth time

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