Today, 5 October 2026, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued a decision unsealing four warrants of arrest issued in the Afghanistan situation on 8 July...

Latin America has not (so far) yielded to US pressure to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Venezuela obliged, Ecuador and Colombia are showing signs to please Washington, but Chile and C...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has visited the International Criminal Court to show support for the tribunal. The court faces criticism from U.S.

A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...

Bosnia goes to the polls on October 4 to elect several parliaments and presidents. While voters worry about the economy and emigration, the campaign is focused on ethnicity, exposing the country's pol...

The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crime...

The FATF found that Canada faces ‘persistent challenges’ in prosecuting professional money laundering

<p>Resolution calls on member states and other countries to forbear from sanctioning judges for their work</p>

The following guest post was written by Velia Marquez Rojas and Henry Off. Velia is a constitutional lawyer at the Centre for Constitutional Studies in Mexico City and has worked in various roles i…

Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, says U.S. sanctions disrupted her daily life. She is still hearing cases and challenging the sanctions in court.

Indigenous communities along the newly-announced West Coast Oil Pipeline route were given just two months for consultations, and that was still more than the government initially planned.

Move follows fears that broad US sanctions on the war crimes tribunal would force the insurer to cease doing business with it or face punishment

President Cyril Ramaphosa has apparently spoken to Vladimir Putin about returning Ukrainian children taken to Russia.…

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&hellip;

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...