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A United Nations inquiry said on Thursday it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza’s health care system in the Gaza war, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. A statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador in 2017 are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by UN and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated. The trial against Miguel Ángel Gámez...

The United States sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and wrecked the northeastern African country. Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa controls the UAE-based...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes. In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under...

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan promised to launch a preliminary inquiry against Belarus over alleged crimes against humanity under the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko after Lithuania submitted an investigation referral. Belarus is not a member of the...

Over 100 years after a white mob attacked a then-thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever federal probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The attack on the Greenwood neighborhood, often referred to as "Black Wall Street," left up to...

The trial of a former doctor accused of genocide in Rwanda began this week, three decades after the massacre of the African country's Tutsi population by the Hutu majority. Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, is accused of aiding his country's authorities in disseminating anti-Tutsi propaganda and of participating...

In a landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled against the State of Chile in the case of Vega González et al. vs. Chile. The ruling refers to 14 criminal proceedings concerning executions, forced disappearances, and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Chilean...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), represented by Samuel Mbemba, Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, is seeking to condemn Rwanda for alleged aggression in the region, including looting, rapes, and massacres. Kinshasa hopes to secure reparations from Kigali. A preliminary hearing was...

In an oral update to members, Erik Møse, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, said it has documented new cases of torture committed by Russian authorities against civilians and prisoners of war in occupied areas of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation.  “We gathered evidence of sexual...