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Johannesburg -- Greater Regional Efforts Needed to Protect Population, Improve Accountability Islamist armed groups in (https://www.hrw.org/africa/burkina-faso) Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian [...]

Swift pursuit of arrest warrants against war leaders in Ukraine and now Gaza is a bold show of legal rule without fear or favour The international criminal court's Karim Khan [...]

Byline: Rufus S. Berry In a momentous move on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at the Executive Mansion, HE Joseph N. Boakai Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia made a [...]

In spite of criticisms from some quarters, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai would go down in history as one of those Liberian leaders who stood up against impunity, second to slain [...]

Monrovia -- With the recent signing of the Resolution establishing the War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia, former United Nations Chief Investigator for Sierra Leone War crimes Tribunal, Dr. [...]

Nairobi -- Investigations into Deliberate Aid Obstruction, Possible War Crimes Needed As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight (https://www.hrw.org/africa/sudan) Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the [...]

Byline: Rodney D. Sieh Monrovia -- The lower house of the national legislature in Liberia has adopted a resolution for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court. The [...]

Jerusalem -- Laws of War Protect Those Who Can't, Don't Flee Israel began major ground operations in the Gaza Strip on October 28, 2023. During the last major Israeli ground [...]

Cabinet has condemned the bombing by the Israeli government of Gaza's Ahli-Arab Baptist Hospital on Tuesday, which killed over 500 people and injured over 1 000 civilians. Cabinet described the [...]

Byline: Glory Iribagiza An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. For ages, millions of women in wartime and armed conflicts [...]

An unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya has enabled fighters of the Tariq Ben Zeyad (TBZ) armed group to commit war crimes, and other crimes under international law, with the [...]

Secretary-General AntÈþnio Guterres 'strongly condemns' an attack against a UN police patrol in northern Mali that claimed the lives of two Nigerian peacekeepers, according to his spokesperson. In a (https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2022-12-16/statement-attributable-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-mali-scroll-down-for-french) [...]

Addis Ababa -- The Government of Ethiopia has condemned the theft of 570,000 liters of fuel by the TPLF from the warehouses of the World Food Program (WFP) and the [...]

Khartoum -- The Council of Ministers constituting Sudan's Cabinet today unanimously passed a draft law for Sudan to accede to and ratify the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal [...]

Byline: Lennart Dodoo Monrovia -- Montserrado County District # 11 Representative Richard Koon has vowed to lead a campaign to ensure that the Amnesty Law granting clemency to perpetrators of [...]

Byline: Lennart Dodoo Monrovia -- The establishment of a war crimes court in Liberia for the prosecution of the likes of Senator Prince Y. Johnson and his cohorts might be [...]

Beirut -- Army Destroys Thousands of Homes, Livelihoods The Egyptian military's continuing home demolitions and forced evictions during the armed conflict in North Sinai governorate are violations of international humanitarian [...]

Byline: Jonathan Pedneault European Court of Human Rights Reiterates Obligation to Investigate Alleged War Crimes The facts surrounding the January 3 French airstrike near Bounti, in central Mali, which villagers [...]

Byline: Leïla Choukroune and Tonny Raymond Kirabira The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently rejected a (https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=pr1523) claim for financial compensation by former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice president Jean [...]

Byline: Contributing Writer Tubmanburg -- People who played major roles in the Liberia Civil War should be barred from participating in elections in Liberia and occupying any positions of public [...]

Khartoum -- The Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), an advocacy organisation that investigates and reports human rights abuses across the world, has welcomed the announcement made yesterday that [...]

Geneva -- 'The people of Libya have long been caught between numerous warring parties, with some of the most vulnerable suffering some of the gravest violations of their human rights,' [...]

Byline: Leroy M. Sonpon, III The Executive Director for Global Justice and Research Project, Mr. Hassan Bility and a human rights campaigner -Before December Before December, or perhaps beginning November [...]

Byline: Allan Ngari The creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) 20 years ago today marked the beginning of the end of an era of impunity for genocide, war crimes [...]

Byline: Al-Varney Rogers Monrovia, Dec 20, 2017 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media) -- Agnes Reeves Taylor, ex-wife of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been denied bail ahead of a war [...]

Byline: Yvonne Mcdermott, Bangor University Feb 01, 2017 (The Conversation/All Africa Global Media) -- The international law of armed conflict seeks to protect civilians and those no longer taking part [...]

The Hague, Netherlands, Dec 02, 2016 (PR Newswire/All Africa Global Media) -- In the context of the referral by the Malian authorities on 13 July 2012 of the situation in [...]

Monrovia, Apr 21, 2016 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media) -- When U.S. Homeland Security officials picked up Mohamed Jabbateh, 49, last week in Philadelphia on immigration-related charges, it marked a familiar [...]

Aug 12, 2015 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The United Nations human rights office expressed deep concern over the reported release of detainees in Mali suspected [...]

Dec 11, 2014 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Security Council today expressed its concern at the grave security situation in parts of Central Africa, particularly […]

Nairobi, Nov 10, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A draft peace agreement to end the military and political crisis in northern Mali does not adequately […]

Jul 22, 2014 (Amnesty International/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Amnesty International called on delegates to the Central African Republic (CAR) National Reconciliation talks due to take place in […]

Apr 01, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) has been the theatre of grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian […]

Apr 01, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The 146 undersigned Congolese civil society and international human rights organizations welcome recent commitments by authorities in the […]

Mar 31, 2014 (Amnesty International/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- At a Glance An increase in attacks by Boko Haram and uncontrolled reprisals by Nigeria's security forces has seen […]

Byline: Jonathan Birchall Nov 05, 2013 (Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The laws of war, also known as international humanitarian law, have long [...]

Feb 13, 2013 (Commonwealth News and Information Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Commonwealth is working with its members in Africa on improving accountability and adherence to International [...]

Aug 14, 2009 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Burundi's government should hold accountable those on all sides responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity during [...]

Byline: Edmund Kagire Kigali, Jul 08, 2009 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- In a move that rejuvenates Rwanda's hope of having justice administered on the Genocide [...]

Byline: Raymond Baguma Kampala, Jun 25, 2009 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- HUNDREDS of Americans on Tuesday paraded in Washington DC to support a proposed law, which [...]

Byline: Charles Kwizera Kigali, Jun 19, 2009 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A leading British NGO, Aegis Trust, which campaigns to prevent Genocide world-wide, is pushing [...]

Byline: Irwin Cotler and David Grossman Kigali, May 27, 2009 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Friday's historic decision in the case of Desire Munyaneza - the [...]

Byline: Frank Kagabo Kigali, May 25, 2009 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Desire Munyaneza was on Friday convicted by the Quebec superior court in Montreal under [...]

Brussels, Mar 09, 2009 (Hirondelle News Agency/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The trial of Ephrem Nkezabera, a former leading member of the Interahamwe militia, will open on 9 [...]