An FAQ to anwer the most important questions about how to create a special tribunal for the Ukraine, the possible impacts on ...

It will take strong political and legal co-operation to make sure every Russian war criminal faces justice, including Putin. This is the path we must walk – all the way to real charges and real ...

Meanwhile, international tribunals uncover information that the perpetrators of international crimes would not volunteer, punish those most responsible for violations of international law, and create ...

International tribunals have existed since the beginning of the modern international system, with the purpose of settling disputes in-between States and sometimes other international actors. It is ...

International criminal tribunals are rife with shortcomings—and should remain only a secondary option, when local forms of delivering justice are impossible.

The United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have helped write new international law in investigating abuses from two brutal conflicts. Three war crimes courts in the planning ...

An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s ends its work Thursday.

On May 9, 2025, representatives of State and international institutions met in Lviv, Ukraine, to formally endorse the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.

German courts and investigators are taking on crimes far beyond their borders — alleged war crimes by ISIS, the Syrian regime and others.

It has been 25 years since the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea was inaugurated in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, in October 1996. The establishment of the Tribunal ...

The Geneva Conventions and subsequent rulings by international tribunals show that proportionality is not a numbers game where the toll of civilian casualties on one side can be compared to the ...