Israel barred the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres from entering the country on Wednesday, escalating tensions already heightened by regional conflict. The announcement was made by Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Katz declared Guterres a persona non grata, a significant diplomatic rebuke, stating, “Today, I [...]

In a monumental decision, Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands are set to initiate legal proceedings against the Taliban at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of gender discrimination and apartheid, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday from the UN. This would mark the first instance in which the ICJ, located at The Hague [...]

Israel has submitted its official challenge to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the legality of the requests for arrest warrants by ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, according to a press statement by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Friday. According [...]

Several serving and former Australian military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war, Defense Minister Richard Marles said Thursday. In a statement to air the closure of the Afghanistan (Brereton Inquiry) Report Marles said:  “Two of the outstanding recommendations of the Brereton Report related to command [...]

The United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour government is aiming to accelerate global efforts to establish a tribunal capable of trying Russian officials for crimes of aggression in Ukraine, according to Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. This initiative seeks to breathe new life into a process that has faced numerous hurdles over the past [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content, and a Ph.D. student at Keele University in the UK.  On August 24, Paris was the venue for an international conference sponsored by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), dedicated to confronting one of the darkest episodes in Iran’s history: [...]

President Vladimir Putin arrived on an official visit to Mongolia, the Kremlin announced Monday. This comes after an announcement made by the Kremlin last Thursday and marks Putin’s first journey to a member nation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since the court issued a warrant for his arrest in March 2023 over alleged war [...]

As the second anniversary of the UN’s critical report on Xinjiang approaches, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday: “The Chinese government persists in committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang while denying repression there.” Maya Wang, HRW’s associate China director, emphasized the necessity of a forceful response from the UN and its [...]

Taliban figures have banned UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett from entering the country. Representatives of the regime told Afghanistan’s TOLO News that: Mr. Bennett’s travel to Afghanistan has been prohibited because he was assigned to spread propaganda in Afghanistan. He is not someone we trust. He is not in Afghanistan, and he is [...]

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 [...]