In this week’s review, news about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s scheduling order on the Judgment in case concerning the accused Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, referral of Venezuela to the ICC by Rome Statute members, Germany’s sentencing for Syrian…

Helen Duffy, professor of human rights and humanitarian law at Leiden University, and director of Human Rights in Practice, has just published a review of ‘strategic human rights litigation’ – a growing area where lawyers increasingly use courts and other…

Marcus Bleasdale, the famed British photographer, has both “document some of the worlds most brutal wars” and, as a result of his research into the financing of conflict, lobbied governments and multinationals to change their policies.  He has a knack for exposing…

You can’t fail to notice the significant contribution African women judges have been making in international courts and tribunals in recent years. From the Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinde at the highest United Nations Court, to South African Navanethem Pillay,…

Dominic Ongwen, a former commander in Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), is on trial at the ICC. Florence Ayot (35),  his former bush wife, still hopes that one day he’ll come back so they can be together and take…

President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that the Philippines will withdraw from the Rome Statute (the treaty that established the International Criminal Court) “effective immediately.”
In his statement, the president was unambiguous about his intent:
“I therefore declare and forthwith give notice,…

By Hassan Bility

My name is Hassan Bility and I am the former editor-in-chief of The Analyst Newspaper in Liberia, during the presidency of Charles Taylor. Because of my writing, I was arrested seven times and savagely tortured upon Charles…

On 6 December 2017, US President Donald Trump announced the US Government would officially recognize that “Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality” … “I am also directing the State Department…

In December 2017, HiiL Innovating Justice held the 8th Annual Innovating Justice Forum at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The forum brought together the best and most promising justice entrepreneurs from all over the world. The attendees were selected from a…

Judge Koffi Kumelio A. Afande, who has served on both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has given a damning appraisal of the outcome of the Kenyan cases…

Chaim Litewski’s parents experienced the horrors of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Because of this, as Litewski told a packed audience at a recent HAGUE TALKS, his parents always had a healthy suspicion of “government, politicians and diplomats.”

“They…

In this week’s review, news about the KRSJI, pardon of Alberto Fujimori, the inquiry into Praljak’s death, and an appeal of Alemu’s war crimes conviction.

Kosovo warned against taking action to end specialist tribunal

On 4 January 2018, a statement was…

In this week’s review, news about the ICC Office of The Prosecutor’s request to open an investigation into crimes in Afghanistan, the trial of Eshetu Alemu on Ethiopia in The Hague,  ICC Budget report recommendations, and ICC Symposium on…

It is time for a shakeup in international arbitration. For too long, Africa and other regions of the world have punched below their weight on matters of continental and international arbitration. People like Senegalese Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue of…

Bert Koenders is the former Dutch minister of foreign affairs. At a specially-convened meeting in The Hague, bringing together experts to discuss a new UN-backed justice mechanism for Syria’s victims, he paid tribute to all those who have so…

In this week’s review, news about the ICC’s new Libyan arrest warrant, the ICC and Colombia’s post-conflict justice, evidence on Ukrainian crimes give to the OTP, MICT and accused communications, Del Ponte’s Syria Inquiry resignation, the Mali attack on…