International Criminal Court (ICC)

Leaving "gender" undefined may represent a groundbreaking opportunity to recognize gender-competent and intersectional feminist practice in international criminal law.

Adopting a Crimes against Humanity Convention would significantly strengthen efforts to prevent these crimes and reinforce justice.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider an act that would impose sanctions on people and organizations to condemn the ICC.

Experts close to the efforts to make ecocide an international crime weigh in on what they believe criminalization can achieve.

"The Court should issue arrest warrants based on the evidence before it with utmost urgency. It is widely and correctly seen as an institutional failure not to do so."

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…

In his thought-provoking essay in Just Security, Chris O’Meara provides an insightful analysis of Ukraine’s recent incursion into Kursk Oblast under the law governing the use…

Writes an American-Israeli citizen whose family was decimated in the Holocaust: "It is my family history and three decades spent advocating for human rights and the rule of…

The OTP’s Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation builds on the idea of a dynamic process of partnership with national authorities, civil society, and other accountability…

A Q&A with Todd Buchwald, former U.S. Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice at the U.S. Department of State.

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

What have international institutions chosen to condemn as violations of community norms, and what conduct has been silenced or omitted?