Crimes Against Humanity

Seeking to ensure all such horrors – Auschwitz, Srebrenica, Bergen-Belsen, Kigali, Bucha – are integrated into the world’s consciousness.

Are they meaningful if condemnation is followed blithely by economic engagement with the same actors who committed the violations?

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The tools should aid in the international criminal justice project by granting victims and witnesses greater agency and accelerating the Court’s truth-seeking function. 

For all the advances made by international justice, a powerful American former secretary of state still seems beyond its grasp.

La communauté internationale devrait répondre avec urgence à l'agression potentielle par le Rwanda envers la RDC.

The international community should respond to potential Rwandan aggression against the Democratic Republic of Congo with urgency.

Gender must be “on the table” throughout the discussion and eventual negotiation of a treaty on crimes against humanity, and everywhere that States seek to prevent or punish…

The Sixth Committee’s review of a proposed CAH treaty is a critical opportunity to ensure that persons with disabilities are not left behind.

"With its liberal interpretation of French law, the Cour de cassation narrowly saved the doctrine of universal jurisdiction in France, particularly for crimes in Syria."

(Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a keynote lecture the author delivered today at an international conference, “Persecution and Collaboration, Rescue and Survival:…

A diverse cross-section of States engaged substantively in the first session of a series of discussions on draft articles.