Crime against humanity

Europe News

Some EU nations have apologised for their colonial past. Is it enough?

The Netherlands became the latest country to apologise for its historical role in slavery and the slave trade.

20/12/2022

Ukraine

International Criminal Court launches Ukraine war crimes investigation

Dozens of member countries had called for a probe into crimes against humanity.

03/03/2022

Germany

Trial begins of 22-year-old German woman who joined IS group in Syria

The young woman is charged with complicity in crimes against humanity after being repatriated with her two children.

25/01/2022

Syria

Syrian doctor goes on trial in Germany accused of torture

It is the second such case in Germany after a former Syrian colonel was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity last week.

19/01/2022

Belarus

Euroviews. Belarus: A non-standard situation demands non-standard tools | View

Sanctions won't be enough to resolve the political crisis in Belarus. International non-recognition and the opening of criminal cases need to follow the upcoming Vienna Conference, says diplomat and opposition figure Pavel Latushka

16/11/2021

World News

Euroviews. COP26: Make ecocide a crime against humanity | View

The EU has the chance to be a trailblazer in halting our wanton destruction of the natural world. There's no time to lose, writes Nina de Ayala Parker

09/11/2021

World News

Euroviews. The world should be watching Hamid Nouri's trial in Sweden | View

The case against an ex-official in Sweden for his part in Iran's 1988 prison massacre is the first step in a long road to accountability, says Dr. Senabargh Zahedi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

05/11/2021

Germany

Germany charges Syrian doctor with crimes against humanity

A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity for allegedly torturing people in military hospitals in his homeland.

28/07/2021

Italy

Italian unions refuse to load Saudi ship carrying weapons to Yemen

The ship was previously prevented by protestors from being loaded in a French port.

21/05/2019

Lithuania

Ex-Soviet defence chief, 94, convicted of war crimes in Lithuania

Dmitry Yazov was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for his role in the violent January 1991 crackdown on Lithuania's pro-independence movement.

27/03/2019

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Srebrenica massacre commemorated with burial of recently identified bodies

The massacre, which occured during the Bosnian War, saw as many as 8,000 Muslims murdered at the hands of Bosnian Serbs.

11/07/2017

World News

Fujimori protests in Peru

08/07/2017

Central African Republic

UN fears growing war crimes in Central African Republic

30/05/2017

Syria

Russia says bombed rebel weapons dump caused Syria 'chemical attack'

Russia has said chemical gas which killed dozens in Syria leaked from a rebel facility, after it was bombed by Syrian planes.

05/04/2017

Syria

Russia says bombed rebel weapons dump caused Syria 'chemical attack'

Russia has said chemical weapons that killed as many as 100 people in the town of Idlib leaked from a rebel weapons facility after it was bombed by the Syrian air…

05/04/2017

Syria

International outrage at Syria 'gas attack'

The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was alarmed at reports of a suspected Syrian government chemical attack that has left dozens of people…

04/04/2017

World News

ISIL accused of using civilians as human shields near Raqqa

People fleeing villages around the Syrian city of Raqqa claim ISIL has been using civilians as human shields.

31/03/2017

Philippines

Human rights groups slam Philippine's war on drugs

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International call for investigations into the extrajudicial police killings of President Duterte's war on drugs

01/02/2017

World

Aleppo in ruins as Assad celebrates a good 2016

Aleppo the target of a relentless human violence

19/12/2016

Syria

New deal agreed for Aleppo evacuation

Fresh agreement will allow wounded civilians to be evacuated from the villages of Kefraya and Fua as well as from two towns near the Lebanese border.

17/12/2016