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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Kelebogile Zvobgo - January 27, 2024

Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.

75 years on, why is the UN Genocide Convention so hard to enforce?

Kelebogile Zvobgo - December 9, 2023

Often states deliberate and debate while people die.

What the arrest warrant for Putin really means

Kelebogile Zvobgo - October 3, 2023

He may never stand trial, but that’s not all that matters.

Chicago cop Jon Burge allegedly tortured suspects. Why couldn’t the U.S. prosecute him?

Mark Berlin - February 16, 2022

The Chicago Police Department apologized for what it called ‘torture.’ But while the United States is a party to international human rights treaties, it doesn’t have laws at home against these violations.

The Trump administration opposes the International Criminal Court. Do Americans agree?

Kelebogile Zvobgo - April 26, 2019

In short, it’s complicated.

The U.S. revoked the visa for the ICC prosecutor. That bodes poorly for international criminal justice.

Judith Kelley - April 8, 2019

If the U.S. doesn’t respect international law, why should other nations?

Here’s how perpetrators of crimes in Syria are being prosecuted

Mark Kersten - March 1, 2019

It’s only the beginning of a long road to justice and accountability.

The International Criminal Court was established 20 years ago. Here’s how.

Heidi Haddad - July 17, 2018

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