[Getty Images] As we enter the new year, the future of the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces significant threats. Sanctions...

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully A child amid buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, 25 October 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images F or the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes , now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true

The ceasefire has not put an end to my people’s suffering; it has only given them time to mourn. Human remains are retrieved from the rubble of a home in a ruined neighbourhood of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on January 22, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP] It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been replaced by silence. But this silence is not peace. It is a silence that screams loss, devastatio

Newly signed executive order has ‘broader implications’ than travel ban Trump imposed in his first term, experts say. Protesters rally...

Trump says relocation may be temporary or long-term as he also announces lifting of hold on 2,000-pound bombs for Israel. An aerial photo...

From first-person accounts of the Armenian and Yazidi genocides, to Anne Frank's diary and the Nuremberg prosecutor who 'peered into hell', we need to listen to those who experienced genocide, to seek accountability – and take heed of the early warning signs. The unmediated first-person voice individualizes the unfathomable numbers of those targeted by genocide: 'Anne Frank The Exhibition' at the Center for Jewish History, New YorkCredit: Eduardo Munoz/REUTERS Before October

ICJ making its first ruling in South Africa's genocide case in January 2024 © ANP/AFP via Getty Images Marking the one-year anniversary...

Many German companies and institutions are intimately connected with Israel. Any change in support for its annihilation of Palestinians would result in the loss of profits and influence

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer [Reuters] Commonwealth leaders have agreed the "time has come" for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK's desire to keep the subject off the agenda at a two-day summit in Samoa. A document signed by 56 heads of government, including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, acknowledges calls for "discussions on reparatory justice" for the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade. The statement says it is time for a "m

Happening Now: Biden seeks to strengthen relationship with tribal nations with Arizona visit. [The Hill | YouTube] President Biden apologized Friday for Native American boarding schools that were part of U.S. policy for 150 years and stripped children away from their tribes and culture.   “The federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened, until today. I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did. I fo