Geneva, 11 August 2026 – Investigations by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Mechanism), as detailed in its Annual Report released today, show a pattern of deliberate aerial attacks on civilians, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence committed by the Myanmar military. The Myanmar military escalated its aerial attacks and other crimes against civilians in the lead-up to the elections completed in January this year and these have continued unabat

Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (New York) – The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC), during a special session on July 24, 2026, decided to remove the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, from office for serious misconduct and serious breach of duty. The following quote can be attributed to Li

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will soon issue a judgment in the case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar involving serious allegations of genocide committed against the Rohingya group. This article revisits a technical issue that the ICJ may wish to clarify in its final judgment. Genocide involves the commission of an underlying act both with the general intent to commit the underlying act itself and with the specific intent to thereby contribute to the destructi

Mayor Zohran Mamdani challenged the United States to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, which New York itself cannot do. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that New York cannot arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, but the United States should. [Credit: Dave Sanders for The New York Times] Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night challenged the federal government to execute an international arrest warrant against Pri

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been sentenced in absentia [Anadolu Agency via Getty Images] A Sudanese court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in the West Darfur region. The court in Port Sudan, a city under the army's rule, convicted Dagalo - known as Hemedti - in absentia, along with 15 other senior

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Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee Sudan's paramilitary RSF celebrate after seizing El Fasher in Darfur last October, which the UN said had the ‘hallmarks of genocide’ after 60,000 civilians were massacred. Photograph: AFP The British government had received intelligence that Ethiopia appeared to be supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war as

Credit: The Armenian Report The European Court of Human Rights has delivered its first judgment related to the April 2016 Four-Day War between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ruling that Azerbaijan violated the fundamental rights of Armenian Major Hayk Toroyan, who was tortured and killed during the war. In a landmark decision, the Strasbourg-based court found that Azerbaijani forces were responsible for the unlawful killing and torture of Toroyan after he had become defenseless duri

Majority of executive of the court recommend a finding of 'serious misconduct' against the chief prosecutor, disregarding a panel of judges' opinion ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan speaking last year at the twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague (ICC photo gallery) The executive body of the International Criminal Court decided on Monday to suspend Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, disregardin

An acknowledgment of the tens of thousands who died helping the British war effort would be a start. But reparations to their descendants - a sum of at least $360m - must also be made Egyptian Labour Corps men in Palestine (Internet Archive) During World War One, the British Empire won campaigns on the backs of Egyptian workers in the Egyptian Labour Corps (ELC). After British forces entered Jerusalem in December 1917, General Archibald Murray wrote: "The Palestine campaign c