In this week’s review, news about Alfred Yekatom’s transfer to the ICC, the Pre-Trial Chamber’s order for the OTP to reconsider its decision not to investigate the Gaza Freedom Flotilla attack for a second time, submissions in Ntaganda case…

In this week’s review, news about the conclusion of the Dutch Government’s investigation into Praljak’s suicide, a joint UN Report on mass graves found in former ISIL territory, Bensouda’s statement on Libya, a French arrest warrant against Syrian officials…

In this week’s review, submissions to the MICT on the suitability of hearing the #Turinabo trail to The Hague, UN Fact-Finding Mission on genocide in Myanmar, IACHR and the migrant caravan, Karadzic submissions on disqualification petitions and more

Burundi extends…

In this week’s review, news about the ICC Prosecutor’s statement on planned evictions in Palestine, the closure of Lebanon tribunal contempt case, Karadzic’s request on the removal of an appeals judge, launch of Gambia’s Truth Commission and the not…

In this week’s review, news about Judge Meron’s disqualification on the Karadzic appeal, the postponement of the Lubanga reparations hearing, the African Commission’s decision on compensating an LRA fighter, Rwanda’s penal code supporting genocide, South Sudan’s opposition to a…

This video captures the moment Mexican human rights activist Graciela Pérez Rodriguez officially received the 2017 Human Rights Tulip from the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Halbe Zijlstra. The Human Rights Tulip is awarded every year by the Dutch…

Pilirani Khoza, a Malawian delegate at the African Union – European Union Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire , told Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Halbe Zijlstra her views on what young people in Africa need: “If there can be investment…

Statement of Marie Claire, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This video was made by Impact (https://www.impact-now.org/) and has been shared here with permission.

Statement of Gloriose, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This video was made by Impact (https://www.impact-now.org/) and has been shared here with permission.

In this week’s review, news about the health of ECCC convict Duch, Bemba files Notice of Appeal on re-sentencing decision, Al-Hassan confirmation hearing postponed, Central African Republic Special Court’s first hearing and more:

Swedish Government approves indictment of oil executive…

Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag, made a strong argument against populism, during an annual lecture in September, in honour of Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg.

by Sigrid Kaag

Ladies and gentlemen,

Silence.

Everything begins in silence.

Without the contrast between…

Last week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, briefed the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Libya. In her statements Bensouda urged the Council to take action and work against the deteriorating security situation…

By Anne-Marie de Brouwer, Eefje de Volder and Milena Adamczewska

Video of Conversations with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide (Gloriose’s statement)
Conversations with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide (Gloriose’s statement)

Statement of Gloriose, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against…

On September 27 a partial but significant foundation was laid to provide accountability for gross human rights violations in Myanmar, and hopefully to deter repetition. After receiving a 444-page UN report extensively detailing human rights violations in Myanmar and…