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Four decades ago, Ottawa decided that the truth about the wartime activities of hundreds of people who had emigrated to Canada was too dangerous to share with Canadians. Justice Jules [...]

Byline: Clea Skopeliti Good morning. Israel has been accused of crimes against humanity over its use of evacuation orders to pursue the 'deliberate and massive forced displacement' of civilians in [...]

Israeli authorities have caused massive and deliberate forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, in what amounts to a war crime, a new report by (https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/14/israels-crimes-against-humanity-gaza) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has [...]

Byline: Joe Barnes, Brussels Correspondent Stolen Ukrainian children are being put up for adoption in Russia on websites that have received funding from Vladimir Putin, according to a landmark report. [...]

Byline: Sofia Chassomeris By: Sofia Chassomeris, News Writer Content warning: mentions of genocide, ethnic cleansing, sexual slavery, carcasses, and suicide. Since April 2023, the most recent Sudanese civil war between [...]

Byline: PAUL GODFREY Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch on Thursday alleged that Israel has forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza, destroyed most of the strip and [...]

Byline: MIKE HEUER & ALLEN CONE Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations Human Rights Office says Hamas and Israeli forces should face a 'reckoning' for war crimes committed since [...]

The Hague, Netherlands: European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation has issued the following news release: On 18-19 April, high-level representatives and prosecutors from the European Union, the United States, [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor The UN should consider suspending Israel as a member state due to its continuing 'genocide' against the Palestinians, the divisive special rapporteur on the Palestinian [...]

United Nations investigators have accused Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza's health facilities and killing medical personnel during its war on the besieged enclave. A statement by ex-UN High Commissioner for [...]

Australia has moved to strip senior military officers of their distinguished service medals over alleged war crimes committed on their watch in Afghanistan. The announcement on Thursday comes after the [...]

Byline: Peter Beaumont and agencies Peacekeepers should be deployed to Sudan immediately and an existing international arms embargo should be expanded to protect civilians from 'harrowing' rights abuses committed by [...]

The report also says the current arms embargo, covering only the Darfur region, should be expanded to the entire country, After 16 months of massacres and war crimes, Sudan’s besieged civilians need to be protected by an arms embargo and an international peacekeeping force, a United Nations fact-finding mission has [...]

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is responsible for extensive sexual violence, including gang rape, abductions, and instances amounting to sexual slavery, according to a new report from the UN fact-finding [...]

Byline: Jenna Russo In September 2024, the United Nations' independent fact-finding mission to Sudan issued its first (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/09/sudan-un-fact-finding-mission-outlines-extensive-human-rights-violations) report. Citing grave human rights violations amounting to war crimes and crimes [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles announced this week that he has stripped distinguished service medals from some […]

M2 PRESSWIRE-September 11, 2024-: Escalating violence in Syria raises fear of 'large-scale war' (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:11092024 Increased violence along the frontlines in Syria, with continued war crimes on all [...]

Brussels: European Union External Action Service has issued the following news release: EU Statement The EU thanks the Head of the IIMM for the reporting and updates, and reiterates its [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the United Nations: Increased violence along the frontlines in Syria, with continued war crimes on all sides, is leaving civilians in [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch The Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and other militant groups was a planned, 'systematic' assault against civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report released [...]

* Hamas and other groups committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilians during their attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Human Rights Watch said in a [...]

The UN commission of inquiry's report should shock us all to our very core (Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes since 7 October, says UN body, 12 June). [...]

A commission produced the United Nations' most detailed examination yet of the Oct. 7 attacks and the subsequent war in Gaza. A United Nations commission investigating the Oct. 7 attacks [...]

A commission produced the United Nations’ most detailed examination yet of the Oct. 7 attacks and the subsequent war in Gaza. A United Nations commission investigating the Oct. 7 attacks [...]

An inquiry by a United Nations-backed commission has found that Israel and Palestinian groups have committed war crimes in the vicious war in Gaza, as it also accused Israel of [...]

Byline: Julian Borger in Washington More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN [...]

The former chief of Mossad threatened the International Criminal Courts (ICC) chief prosecutor to try to get a 2021 war crimes probe dropped, a report has claimed. Yossi Cohen, ex-chief [...]

Byline: Daniel Hurst and Ben Doherty Australian soldiers and junior officers were thrown 'under the bus' by generals and politicians over allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, a body representing [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer block-time published-time 9.56pm BST A lack of acceptance for responsibility by senior military leaders for war crimes in Afghanistan has caused 'ongoing anger and bitter resentment' among [...]

Byline: By, Dave Burke The UK must condemn Rwanda for supporting a brutal militia accused of war crimes and recruiting child soldiers rather than handing it millions of pounds, human [...]

Russian forces appear to have executed Ukrainian soldiers as they attempted to surrender or had already surrendered since December 2023, an international rights group has said in a new report. [...]

(JURIST) - The Ukrainian Bar Association published its second report on its project to monitor war crimes proceedings on Wednesday. This project aims to suggest improvements to war crimes trials [...]