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JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane, founding Chief Prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in West Africa, discusses the UN's recent action that will allow for independent justice-seeking organizations to hold accountable parties committing international crimes in Syria... On...

The UN Security Council on Friday elected to extend the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to March 2018. The mandate of UNMIL was also broadened to "comprise protection of civilians, reform of...

UN officials urged the international community on Wednesday to unite with the UN Security Council to protect civilians in the war-torn eastern Aleppo region of Syria. UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura,...

An independent UN human rights expert said Wednesday that strengthening the justice system in the Central Africa Republic (CAR) is essential to achieving peace. Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum was speaking before a conference on the CAR held in Brussels on...

Delegates from the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday called on officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take greater responsibility to adopt a consensual and inclusive electoral calendar. A weekend...

South Sudan consented to the addition of another 4,000 UN peacekeeping troops to the existing force of 14,000 soldiers, under intense pressure from the UN, US and the rest of the international community. The announcement was...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council have been "conspicuous silent" in response to the prosecutor office's calls to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, said ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Thursday. She stated...

The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Aristide Nononsi, on Friday called for an end to conflict in Darfur between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid which may have...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that thousands of people, including children, are being arbitrarily detained in Libya . The report highlights torture and other forms of ill-treatment in four prisons in Tripoli and Misrata, which...

A UN human rights expert on Monday urged states to reexamine their unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) imposed on Sudan, which impact innocents instead of political elites. Idriss Jazairy, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions,...