View 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
View 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 Thousands of Peruvians marched on the streets of Lima on Friday to pressure President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski against pardoning the country’s former 08/07/2017
Central African Republic UN fears growing war crimes in Central African Republic A new United Nations report claims a fresh wave of human rights violations in Central African Republic may amount to war crimes. Investigators who 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
Syria Syria Aleppo: thousands of trapped civilians wait as evacuation halts Amid recriminations on all sides, fears are growing for the thousands of people still desperately trying to flee Eastern Aleppo after the operation 17/12/2016
Syria Hezbollah and Iranians hold up convoys fleeing Aleppo says witness The Aleppo endgame is proving deadly for civilians trying to flee as Hezbollah and Iranian militias defy Russian efforts to shepherd people to safety. 16/12/2016
Syria Battle for Aleppo: cries of desperation appear on social media As the attacks by Syrian government forces have intensified on the last rebel-held area of Aleppo, cries of desperation have been published via social media in a series of videos and… 13/12/2016
Syria Amnesty International accuses Syrian opposition groups of human rights abuses The rights watchdog says the alleged abuse was committed over four years by the members of five armed organisations in the conflict-torn country. 05/07/2016
world news ICC gives former rebel warlord 18 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, led a campaign of rape and murder in neighbouring Central African Republic in 2002-3. 21/06/2016
world news Habre - "I hope this is a lesson to all the other dictators out there" News that the former president of Chad has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity has been met with celebration. 30/05/2016
Senegal Ex-Chad leader Hissène Habré gets life in prison for crimes against humanity Habré ruled Chad from 1982-1990 Investigators told trial he was responsible for 40,000 killings and torture of 200,000 people He denied all charges, refuses court’s authority Victims campaigned for 25 30/05/2016
Senegal Ex-Chad president sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity Hissene Habre has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his rule from 1982-1990. 30/05/2016
Turkey Armenian massacres of 1915: the Armenian viewpoint This article sets out how Armenians generally view the context, events and implications of the massacres of ethnic Armenians living in the Ottoman 24/04/2016
Netherlands No-one in Bosnia satisfied with Karadzic sentence In Srebrenica, scene of an appalling massacre of Bosnian Muslim men and boys by the Serbs during the Yugoslav war, survivors and victims’ family 24/03/2016
Ivory Coast ICC trial begins of former Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo goes on trial today at the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity 28/01/2016
