On February 14 and 15, 2023, a Rotterdam court, the District Court of The Hague, held the first pro forma hearings against twelve women that the Dutch government brought back from a prison camp in Syr...
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“The Time Has Come To Mobilize Real Political Will To Address CRSV In The DRC”
The use of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is not a crime of the past. In 2020, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Putin’s Atrocities In Ukraine – Crimes With A Name
On November 14, 2022, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, will host a briefing on the issue of Russia’s genocide in Ukraine. The briefing comes months a...
What Are Putin’s ‘Filtration Camps’ And Why Are They Concerning?
Ten months of Putin’s war in Ukraine have seen a litany of atrocities including summary executions, unlawful confinement, torture, ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, forced displacement of...
Heightened Risk Of Genocide Against Tigrayans In Ethiopia
On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriora...
Yet Another Attack On The Hazara In Afghanistan
On September 30, 2022, a suicide attack inside the Kaaj Educational Center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of West Kabul, Afghanistan, claimed the lives of over 35 girls and young women belonging to th...
How One Yazidi Woman Helped To Secure The Second Genocide Conviction Of A Daesh Member
On July 27, 2022, a court in Germany convicted a German Daesh member, Jalda A., of aiding and abetting genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the enslavement and abuse of a young Yazidi ...
Crimes Against Humanity Continue Unabated In North Korea
A new report published by the International Bar Association’s (IBA) War Crimes Committee and the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) has found there is reasonable basis to conclude that K...
Renewed Focus On Brining Daesh To Justice Urgently Needed
On July 5, 2022, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) published its new report and recommendations for Member States to the Cou...
Turkey, Syria And Iraq Face Allegations Of Failing To Prevent And Punish The Daesh Genocide
On July 6, 2022, a group of international human rights lawyers published a report accusing Turkey, Syria and Iraq of failing to implement their obligations under the UN Convention on the Prevention an...
As Russian Troops Leave Irpin And Bucha, Ukraine, More Evidence Of Putin’s War Crimes Emerges
April 3, 2022, has seen reports of egregious crimes being perpetrated in Irpin and Bucha, Ukraine. Among others, media outlets reported on images of Ukrainian civilians lying dead on the streets of Bu...
Determination Of The Genocide Against The Rohingyas- A Step Toward Truth, Accountability, And Future
On March 21, 2022, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken formally recognized the atrocities against the Rohingyas as genocide and crimes against humanity, during his visit to the United States Holocaus...
Russia Ordered To Suspend Its Military Operations In Ukraine
On March 16, 2022, the International Court of Justice, before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, ordered Russia to immediately suspend the mi...
One Year Of The Military Junta In Power In Myanmar
On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military stages a coup and took over Myanmar. What followed can only be described as brutal crackdown to suppress opposition to its rule, including mass killings, tort...