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The Ivory Coast's military committed widespread human rights abuses in August and September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. The report details the alleged abuses including arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged nations around the globe to carry out the rulings made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Speaking before 500 high-level officials at a ceremony for...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday to improve its impact and stimulate cooperation amongst the international community as the court enters its second decade. HRW...

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday elected 18 countries , including the US, to a three-year term on the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) beginning January 1. The secret ballot election was held at...

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday found former Ivory Coast president and alleged war criminal Laurent Gbagbo fit to stand trial ....

A lawyer representing Laurent Gbagbo requested on Tuesday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) release Gbagbo from custody while he awaits his trial. Gbagbo is the former Ivory Coast president...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday denied a request by former Ivory Coast president and alleged war criminal Laurent Gbagbo to leave the Netherlands for medical recovery while he...

The secretary general of a leading Ivory Coast opposition party was sentenced on Friday to six months of imprisonment. Laurent Akoun of the Ivorian Popular Front, the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo , was sentenced ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday dismissed a challenge by former Ivory Coast president and alleged war criminal Laurent Gbagbo that the court lacks jurisdiction to try him. Gbagbo is being charged...

The Ivory Coast's commission of inquiry into the country's 2010 post-election violence submitted a report to President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday revealing that hundreds of fighters on both sides of the hostilities committed war...