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Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide. The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but...

A Dutch court has sentenced a Rwandan man to life in prison for his role in the murder of thousands during the 1994 genocide in the Central African country. The Hague district court found Eugene N guilty of war crimes and genocide on Friday, and issued the sentence. Judges called his conduct a...

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. Mladic died at a...

A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had requested. The...

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, on Tuesday ruled for a second time that Turkey should release the jailed philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala. Judges found that his detention and conviction violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. “The...

Serbia’s Justice Minister Nenad Vujic has once again called for the release of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. On Tuesday, he asked the UN war crimes court in The Hague to consider a new request by the family of the former Bosnian Serb military leader. Vujic made the plea in a letter to...

Bulgaria breached the human rights of dozens of Roma families in Sofia by demolishing their homes without giving them a chance to contest the decision, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. The government must pay 10,000 euro in damages to each party to the case and reform its...

Authorities in Kosovo have found the remains of more than 20 people in three suspected mass graves believed to contain victims of the region’s ethnic conflicts in the 1990s. In a joint statement on Wednesday, prosecutors, police officials and forensic investigators said “forensic medicine institute...

US sanctions on top members of the International Criminal Court "undermine the rule of law", the court said in a statement on Tuesday after Washington imposed measures on its president. "When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is...

Lebanon’s judicial authorities have decided to hand over a former senior Syrian military officer under ousted President Bashar Assad to Damascus after questioning him over crimes he allegedly committed during the country’s conflict, officials said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Adel Issa will be the first...