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Article: Joan Donoghue elected as new ICJ judge
Joan Donoghue is elected to replace Judge Thomas Buergenthal at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The United Nations Security Council (SC) and the General Assembly (GA) appointed Joan E. Donoghue, the former Principal Deputy Legal...
Article: ICJ opinion: way out of an impasse?
Last month’s advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in support of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was marked as an historic event in Kosovo. The government hailed...
Article: Rights groups want Habre trial to move forward
The Nobel Peace Prize winners Bishop Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi, as well as 117 African human rights groups from 25 countries, call for Senegal and the African Union (AU) to move forward with the trial of Hissène Habré....
Article: Applications from terrorists declared admissible by ECHR
The European Court for Human Rights has declared the admissions of international terrorists from the UK partly admissible. The terrorists are detained in the UK and pending extradition to the U.S. Between 2004 and 2006 all four applicants...
Article: Poland to extradite alleged Israeli agent to Germany
A Polish court decided Wednesday to extradite an alleged Israeli Mossad agent to Germany over claims he is linked to the January killing of a Hamas chief, despite Israel's calls for him to go home. "The court has decided to hand...
Article: Dutch trial still possible for Trafigura director
Trafigura director Claude Dauphin may yet stand trial after a ship his company chartered dumped waste that allegedly killed 17 people in the Ivory Coast, the Dutch Supreme Court said today. "The appeals court in Amsterdam must judge...
Article: Panama's Noriega sentenced to seven years' jail
A French court on Wednesday sentenced Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega to seven years in jail for laundering drug money.
Article: Sri Lanka slams UN over war crimes probe
Sri Lanka accused the UN on Wednesday of a "hidden agenda" behind its plans to investigate alleged human rights abuses by soldiers in the final months of the island's savage civil war. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's...
Article: Lumumba's sons seek war crimes crimes charges against Belgium
The sons of Congo's first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, will seek the prosecution on war crimes of 12 Belgian officials suspected of aiding their father's assassination in 1961. Lawyers for Francois Lumumba plan to file...
Article: Sri Lanka furious as UN's Ban names war crimes panel
Sri Lanka is "deeply unhappy" at a move by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to name a panel to look into alleged war crimes committed during the final months of the island's civil war, an official said Monday. Colombo repeated President...
