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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

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

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

World

Judge Theodor Meron reflects on his quest for international justice

Judge Theodor Meron has presided over the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia for the past five years. A court which has managed

19/11/2015

My Europe Series

ICTY: The trials and tribulations of international justice

Since 1993 the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia in the Hague has sought to bring to justice perpetrators of atrocities during

13/11/2015

Syria

Satellite images show ISIL destruction in Palmyra

Newly released satellite images show the destruction by ISIL militants of the Bel Temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. The images

01/09/2015

Romania

Romania: former prison commandant given 20 years for crimes against humanity

The former commandant of one of the harshest prisons of Romania’s communist era has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity

24/07/2015

Syria

"Death Everywhere" - report accuses Syria of bombing civilians

Amnesty International report accuses Syrian government of deliberately targeting civilians with deadly barrel bombs in Aleppo

06/05/2015