War Crimes

As the Biden administration develops a new direction in American foreign policy, the ICC is also charting a new institutional course.

On Sri Lanka and other issues, the Biden administration's decision sends the message that the protection of human rights is a deeply rooted priority.

The Rajapaksa government has gone so far as to install someone allegedly associated with a death squad on the Human Rights Council.

Concerns over impunity and a troubling decline in human rights will be prominent, with a long-awaited report by the UN high commissioner for human rights.

A leading scholar explains landmark decision by Germany's highest criminal court.

Tech is heralded as a way to increase access and participation in international justice. But what are the costs of these digital justice mechanisms?

Editor’s note: Originally published on May 25, 2019; with an author’s note published on Dec. 24, 2020. Author’s note, Dec. 24, 2020: Not all corrupt pardons…

A comprehensive, sweeping analysis of "the United States’ own long-standing views that a commander’s failure to punish war crimes by his subordinates may itself amount to war…

[Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series on the consolidated cases of Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I and Cargill Inc. v. Doe I, which was argued before…

The world has not come close to ending such heinous crimes, but the trials established the principle that perpetrators can and must be brought to justice.

Significant First Amendment concerns are raised by the administration's sanctions against the International Criminal Court and against those who support the ICC's work.

Cases such as one in Germany to address individual criminal responsibility are insufficient on their own to address the scope of the documented criminality.