At the International Court of Justice in The Hague yesterday, two countries, Croatia and Serbia, heard that neither could be found to have committed genocide during the Balkans Wars of the 1990’s, during which thousands died or were forced…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague will announce tomorrow whether Croatia was right in accusing neighbouring Serbia of genocide. And whether Serbia was right in its counter claim that Croatia had also committed genocide. The issue dates…

Harriet Ssali Lule, Deputy Registrar of the International Crimes Division (ICD) Uganda, has been at the Yugoslav Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY), for the past few months, examining how an international criminal tribunal is run.

She spoke at an event…

Since the end of 2014, the world’s media has been dominated by the discussion arising from Palestine’s decision to sign up to the International Criminal Court. But, from some of the commentary, it’s clear that there’s still a lot of…

“I’ve never had to do this before,” said one delegate to me – “specifically vote for a male candidate”. Because of the arcane rules for how judges are elected for the ICC, in the first couple of rounds a male…

The chocolate was really rather good: I grabbed the last truffle from the box circulating amongst the less fortunate: we the NGOs, high up in the conference room, separated from the delegates down on the floor.

Each candidate to be…

Our international justice coordinator Janet Anderson explains why accountability may still take some time.

The ICC is a members only club – if you want to the court to be involved, you have to join it. Do the Palestinians really…