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JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse College of Law and Guest Columnist Leila Sadat of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law say that after the failure of American legislative and diplomatic initiatives opposing the International Criminal...

The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday upheld the admissibility of the case against former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga . Katanga had argued that charges of...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Dmitry Titov has called conditions in a Goma, Congo prison "inhumane" and said that it is the worst in...

International corporations that purchase minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo are responsible for prolonging the conflict in the African country, according to a report issued Tuesday by human rights group Global Witness [advocacy...

The prosecution in the trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo concluded its case on Tuesday after presenting 22 weeks of testimony. The trial, occurring at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, began...

The trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga resumed Thursday after the first witness to testify withdrew his testimony Wednesday, causing the inaugural war crimes trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official...

Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga pleaded not guilty on Monday in the historic first trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Lubanga, founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese [GlobalSecurity...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday lifted a suspension imposed on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga after prosecutors in the case agreed to share [filing,...

International Criminal Court (ICC) President Judge Phillippe Kirsch told the UN General Assembly Thursday that the ICC is at a "critical stage" ten years after its creation. Presenting his annual report [text, PDF;...