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During his address to the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged world leaders to support his 2022 "peace formula," which centers on expelling Russian forces from Ukraine and holding them accountable for war crimes. He criticized alternative peace proposals, particularly...

In an oral update to members, Erik Møse, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, said it has documented new cases of torture committed by Russian authorities against civilians and prisoners of war in occupied areas of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation.  “We gathered evidence of sexual...

On September 18, 2024, Judge Tomoko Akane, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Catherine De Bolle, the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), signed a memorandum of understanding on secure communication and a liaison...

Swedish prosecutors charged a woman on Thursday with crimes against humanity for acts in Syria against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority between 2014 and 2016, the first time the Nordic country has brought this charge. The woman, a 52-year-old Swedish citizen identified in the...

A year after Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, a complaint accusing Azerbaijani officials of crimes against humanity has been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of two of the victims. The complaint, submitted by the legal team representing victims, includes...

The Bosnian state prosecution has charged Serif Patkovic with violating the Geneva Conventions by allegedly killing an injured prisoner of war, a Croatian Defence Council officer, during the Bosnian war in 1993. At the time, Patkovic was commander of the Bosnian Army’s 7th Muslim Brigade's Second...

In the Serb-majority Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new educational curriculum will teach elementary students about the roles of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, referring to them as leaders in a “defensive war of liberation.” The curriculum omits...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he and International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan had discussed how to ensure that arrest warrants for Russian officials wanted for war crimes in Ukraine are implemented. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for several Russian...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 30 people convicted for antigovernment protests, four years after huge demonstrations that prompted a massive crackdown on dissent and spurred a new wave of emigration. Lukashenko’s office said in a statement that the move was a “humane gesture”...

European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday. As part of a policy to contain migration, authorities in Cyprus have physically pushed Syrian refugees back to Lebanon...