Given that activists are not content with mere promises of legal action from the new regime, its performance in investigating Zongo’s and Sankara’s deaths will be one bellwether of its relationship with the protesters who toppled Compaoré.
Tag: justice
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In different ways, the two important trials are calling attention to lingering conflicts between Senegal’s present government and the previous one.
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ICC accession could be a strategy for Palestine to achieve more leverage in the international arena as well as a potential step toward attaining accountability and justice.
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In order to put an end to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the parties and the UN community need to focus on establishing accountability, possibly through an ICC referral.
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At its 23rd summit, the African Union formalized the extension of the new African Court of Justice and Human Rights’ jurisdiction. But some of the court’s new characteristics create some challenges.
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Adam Smith interviews two civil society leaders from South Sudan on how to bring stability back to their country and on the potential role of civil society in the mediation process.
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In this interview, Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, legal director of Doctors Without Borders, discusses the relevance of humanitarian law in today’s conflicts.
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The Syrian Accountability Project documents war crimes so that perpetrators may be brought to justice when the conflict ends.
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Because the Security Council is a political body—not a forum for justice—there is a danger that, over time, an over-reliance on criminal justice discourse may create a dangerous gap between its practice and public expectations of the Council as an enforcer of the international rule of law.
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Beyond recent headlines, one finds deep structural factors that have shaped the Yemeni polity over the past decades.
