The first session that carried a relative public appeal, took place at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) last Wednesday. By Lynn Maalouf, Beirut
Lawyers for Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the Yugoslav war crimes court to acquit the former Bosnian Serb leader, arguing that no genocide took place in Bosnia in 1992.
Representatives of the International Criminal Court flew arrived in Tripoli on Sunday to try to secure the release of a detained delegation visiting Muammar Gaddafi's captured son, a Libyan official said.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday urged Libyan authorities to release an Australian lawyer accused of spying, as Canberra ramped up diplomatic efforts to secure the woman's freedom.Melinda Taylor was detained on Thursday after meeting
Malawi said Friday it will not host the African Union summit in July over the bloc's insistence on inviting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, wanted on international war crimes charges.
UN monitors are to try again on Friday to reach the site of a new Syrian massacre after being shot at in their first attempt, as Kofi Annan urged united action to stop the crisis from spiralling out of control.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has submitted his first report to the Security Council detailing grave crimes committed against children by Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his feared Lord's Resistance Army, the U.N.
There is a first for everything. And in the case of Rwanda, there are many firsts – or, to be more precise, firsts since 1994. And 2012 is the first year an arts museum is showing the work of international artists.
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A second trial on genocide charges awaits former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, after Judge Carol Patricia Flores ruled on May 21 that he could be prosecuted for ordering the Dos Erres massacre, committed by the G