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The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
© Vincent van Zeijst
International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court (ICC): hearings to confirm the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against El Hishri

Man during Beirut protests with a flag from Lebanon
Lebanon

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Report on Deaths and Displacements During the Conflict in Lebanon

A girl helps her sister on their way home from school in Idlib, North-west Syria.
© UNOCHA/Ali Haji Suleiman
Syria

Syria: UN Commission exposes war crimes and urges justice and reforms in its latest report

Members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine brief reporters at UN Headquarters. At left is Pablo de Greiff, in the centre is Erik Møse, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, and at right is Vrinda Grover.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Ukraine

UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine: the Russian military’s actions amount to two crimes against humanity

torture

United Nations: Special Rapporteur on torture warns about the inhumanity of ongoing conflicts

Flags with the OSCE logo in Russian, English and German in front of the Hofburg in Vienna, 14 February 2007
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OSCE/CSCE

OSCE: Report on Possible Violations and Abuses of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Related to the Treatment of Ukrainian POWs by the Russian Federation

Criminal Tribunals in The Hague
International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court: issued a decision on Italy’s non-compliance with a request for cooperation on the Elmasry case

A group of women in Um Baru, North Darfur.
© UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam
International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court convicts Janjaweed leader of crimes against humanity and war crimes war crimes in Darfur

justice

Colombia: first transitional justice convictions by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Special Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights in Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967 Briefs Press
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
Occupied Palestinian Territories

UN Special Rapporteurs: Human rights situation in Gaza and OPT, 15 September 2025

A Palestinian searches through the rubble of his home destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khuza'a, southern Gaza Strip.
© UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan
Occupied Palestinian Territories

United Nations General Assembly: New report published by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

© UNICEF/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
human rights

UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine: Russian drone strikes in Kherson constitute crimes against humanity

Working Groups of the students of the Bachelor degree course in “Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights” - Course of International Relations, prof. Marco Mascia, Human Rights Centre, 2013.
university

OSINT-based Law Clinic for human rights master's students, March-May 2025

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
© Vincent van Zeijst
International Criminal Court

Comment on Italy's failure to execute ICC arrest warrant (the Elmasry case)

© UN Photo
International Criminal Court

Giorgia Meloni and the Ministers of Justice and of the Interior are potentially under investigation in the case of Libyan General Najeem Osama Elmasry