The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

The following was written by Fatema D. Ahmadi, an Afghan human rights practitioner and researcher and a consultant for the Afghanistan ICJ-CEDAW initiative at Rawadari, and Mark Kersten the founder of JiC. A version of it first appeared in the Globe and Mail. Women gather in Kabul, in 2022 (Photo: AP) Gender persecution in Afghanistan is no secret. It is now codified in the Taliban’s 100+ edicts and decrees aimed at controlling every aspect of…

The International Court of Justice is expected to deliver its ruling in the genocide case against Myanmar next month.

Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...

Two years ago, Ottawa joined an international effort to hold the Taliban regime accountable for its gender persecution. Today, we don’t know the status of that project

Amnesty International accused M23 rebels in eastern Congo of carrying out abuses and unlawful killings of miners while trafficking critical minerals to neighbouring Rwanda in what it said could amount...

The United Nations Human Rights Council in session in Geneva

Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Tom Berendsen probeert rond de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in New York de steun voor het Internationaal Strafhof overeind te houden, ondanks dreigement...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestine in an effort to preserve "the possibility of a two-state solution."

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a thinly veiled message to Donald Trump in a speech at the United Nations, warning foreign countries to stay out of October’s presidential election.

Without government oversight, a catastrophic disruption of internet-connected infrastructure is on the horizon

A Canadian citizen has been deported back to Canada after a harrowing 9 and a half months behind bars in a California ICE detention centre where he endured poor food, mouldy walls and lack of proper m...

Our cut-and-run approach to foreign aid goes beyond slashing funding to the lowest level since 1969, and includes closing missions in key regions, and withdrawing peacekeeping operations, argues forme...

The Netherlands is making preparations for the United States to sanction the International Criminal Court, in the last escalation of the Trump Administration’s attacks on the global tribunal.

Last weekend, Nipissing University in North Bay opened the Centre of the Study of State Violence, which will look at subjects such as the Nazi or Rwandan genocides, as well as broader cases of when a ...

U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty) The International Criminal Court is once again under attack from the United States. The reason behind the Trump administrati…

Netanyahu’s recent flight path In late July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the White House with a mission: get America to continue its war against Iran and to support…

Measures targeting the court itself could disrupt payments, IT services and investigations.

GENEVA – Civilians in Iran are caught between gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by their own Government and the nation’s deadly conflict with the United States and Is...

Alex Ovechkin is drawing criticism after appearing in a TV ad for Vladimir Putin's political party, but the NHL's career goal-scoring leader says he only "supports what's happening in Russia" and hopes the war with Ukraine will end soon.

A United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school ‌and sports facility in Iran in Februa...

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in the ‌courtroom on Wednesday for the first time since being transferred to the International Criminal Court 18 months ago to face murder charges...