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Afghan female students chant "Education is our right, genocide is a crime" during a protest as they march from the University of Herat toward to the provincial governor office in Herat on October 2,2022, two days after a suicide bomb attack in a learning center in Kabul. The bombing killed at least 35 people, and most were female students, according to the BBC, which cited the United Nations. (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Signals of Support for Gender Justice in the Draft Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity

States' written comments cover issues such as the slave trade, gender apartheid, and strengthening protections for victims and survivors.
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Syrian Regime Crimes on Trial in The Netherlands

Charges against a Syrian man accused of committing atrocity crimes could set important legal precedents for future cases in the Netherlands.
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Strengthening Reproductive Autonomy in the Draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty

In the draft crimes against humanity treaty, States have a historic opportunity to strengthen protections for reproductive autonomy within the framework of international law.
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Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Unappreciated Necessity of Contempt Proceedings in International Criminal Accountability

The contempt cases may assist the Special Prosecutor's Office and the judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in carrying out their mandates and building the judicial record.

Why the Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Should Codify Gender Apartheid

The draft Crimes against Humanity treaty has the opportunity to recognize gender-based oppression for what it is: a type of apartheid.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres shake hands in front of the U.N. and Ukrainian flags

Making Counter-Hegemonic International Law: Should A Special Tribunal for Aggression be International or Hybrid?

The increasingly polarized debate over the tribunal’s institutional design – international or hybrid – goes to the heart, and core purpose, of international criminal justice,…
Ukrainian flags in memory of soldiers who died during the war against Russia are seen on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti

Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the “Global East”

Despite a tendency to analyze global divisions over aggression trials through a “West” versus “Global South” binary, the longer-term stakes of accountability for Ukraine…
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Joint Symposium on U.S. Cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation

A Joint Symposium with Articles of War on U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine investigation
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Is Henry Kissinger a War Criminal?

For all the advances made by international justice, a powerful American former secretary of state still seems beyond its grasp.
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Meta’s Oversight Board Recommends Major Advance in International Accountability

The Oversight Board’s recommendation that Meta create a protocol to preserve and share graphic conflict-related content signals that we may be teetering on the edge of a powerful…
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The Brussels Declaration: Russian International and Human Rights Lawyers’ Statement on Accountability

A statement by Russian lawyers, scholars and advocates. "They strongly hope that their unified voice will be heard."
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Could the Nova Kakhovka Dam Destruction Become the ICC’s First Environmental Crimes Case?

The Nova Kakhovka Dam destruction, already labelled an act of “ecocide” by some, will undoubtedly reinforce calls for the ICC to focus more on environmental crimes and further…
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