Ukraine President Zelenskyy submits bill to ratify ICC Rome Statute
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted a bill on Thursday that would ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The bill would establish Ukraine as a member state over which the ICC can exercise jurisdiction. Zelenskyy also introduced Bill 11484, which would amend certain provisions of the Ukrainian Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure [...]
Reimagining Women's Rights in Afghanistan: Federalism as a Pathway to Gender Equality
Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan is experiencing severe human rights abuses, notably against women and ethnic minorities, amid socio-political and humanitarian crises. In this piece, the authors analyze the severe human rights challenges in Afghanistan, particularly focusing on the plight of women under the Taliban and historical patterns of gender inequality. They propose federalism as a [...]
The United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) warned that famine and floods will add to the ongoing challenges in Sudan on Monday. Sudan already faces displacement and significant loss of life after more than a year of civil war. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) have reported famine conditions near Al Fashir in northern [...]
Peru enacts law shielding pre-2002 crimes against humanity from prosecution
Peru’s government enacted a controversial law on Friday that prevents the prosecution of crimes against humanity committed before 2002, following the approval of legislative initiative 6951/2023-CR by the Peruvian Congress on July 4. This decision notably favors former President Alberto Fujimori and hundreds of military personnel involved in the country’s internal armed conflict between 1980 [...]
Australia senator condemns Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians as 'war crime'
Senator Penny Wong on Saturday condemned the statements made by the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich surrounding the military justification for the purposeful starvation of Palestinians, in the statement on her social media X (formerly Twitter). Her statement reports, “Australia joins international partners, including the United Kingdom, Germany and France, in condemning the comments made [...]
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.” Tertullian For conspicuous reasons, the likelihood of direct war between Israel and Iran is increasingly “high.” What remains inconspicuous is that such a war could quickly or incrementally involve North Korean military assets. Even if Israel were able to keep Iran pre-nuclear, an already nuclear North [...]
UN experts urge Australia to compensate families of war crimes in Afghanistan
UN experts in Geneva issued a press release urging the Australian government to immediately fulfill its commitment to compensate the families of 39 murdered victims of war crimes in Afghanistan in adherence to International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on Wednesday. A military inquiry that was conducted in 2020 indicated that [...]
Israel human rights NGO reports ‘systematic’ abuse, torture of Palestinians in prisons
A report released Tuesday by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem featured allegations of systematic abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli authorities. The report, titled “Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps,” is based on interviews with 55 Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Wednesday documenting the Russian government’s crackdown on fundamental civic liberties following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The report, titled “Russia’s Legislative Minefield: Tripwires for Civil Society since 2020,” underscores that the suppression is a continuation of an existing trend that has continued for more than [...]
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told a local magazine on Tuesday that he advises Germans against travelling to Russia, stressing that no one has been safe in Russia for a long time. Buschmann’s comments came in the wake of a recent prisoner exchange with Russia, in which Germany played a pivotal role. The complex negotiations [...]
