Crimes Against Humanity

Could discussions about the revival of the Apartheid Convention provide a basis for rethinking the approach to the codification of gender apartheid?

The ICC proceeding against Kony opens the door for in absentia confirmation of charges in other high-profile ICC cases, but it is a fact-specific analysis and so the prosecution…

A decade after a major UN human rights report, abuses are escalating, and they are integrally connected to the country's nuclear program.

The ICC's update to the prosecution of slavery crimes should include specific recognition of and protections for persons with disabilities.

What we can name and render cognizable and what we must un-remember and forcefully forget is deeply connected to the numerous atrocities embedded in the international order.

Prosecutors allege that Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s former defense minister, and Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, directed missile strikes…

The UN Special Rapporteur concludes that the Taliban’s policies of removing women and girls from public life can best be described as “gender apartheid”—a term that multiple…

Survey results from over 400 Rohingya survivors of the 2017 genocidal violence in Myanmar raise the question of what international courts owe to those who participate in their…

Liberia's president is working to establish a war crimes court to prosecute crimes which occurred during the country's civil war.

Public and formal education will be needed to fulfill the resolution's purpose of ending genocide denial and preventing future atrocities.

The ICC Prosecutor's charges related to starvation in Gaza resemble patterns of previous starvation crimes over the past eight years.

Learn what UN members said about denoting violations such as the Afghan Taliban's dystopian repression as a crime in a possible treaty.