Crimes against Humanity Archives

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Historical Responsibility at Hammelsgasse 1

03.07.2025

Alicja Polakiewicz

Whenever Germany applies universal jurisdiction, abstract allusions to the country’s historical responsibility abound. Responsibility is a state of being; but eight decades after the end of the Second World War,...

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The Road Not Taken?

23.06.2025

Anonymous

On 30 September 2024, the Republic of Lithuania took the noteworthy step of referring the situation in Belarus to the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor. Lithuania’s referral alleges that crimes against...

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The Hague and Europe’s Last Dictatorship

10.06.2025

Mayya Chaykina

Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime has been in power for over 30 years. Belarusians who have fled the country report years of systematic repression, persecution, and inhuman treatment by authorities. These accounts...

Symposium
Women in International Law Vol. 4

Is Gender Apartheid the New Forced Marriage?

04.03.2025

Anjana Leena Sathy

Equality between men and women is inherent to the international human rights law framework. However, discrimination against women remains real, widespread, and in some cases institutionalized as gender apartheid –...

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Der kurze Atem der deutschen Strafverfolgungsbehörden

13.05.2024

Arne Bardelle

Deutschland beansprucht seit einigen Jahren eine Vorreiterrolle in der Strafverfolgung von Völkerstraftaten. Doch die Ermittlungspraxis zu internationalen Verbrechen in Belarus zeigt erneut: Dieser Anspruch gilt nicht für alle Situationen gleichermaßen....

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First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in The Gambia Comes to an End

21.12.2023

Susann Aboueldahab Inês Freixo Rodolfo González Espinosa

On 30 November 2023, the first trial worldwide to address crimes against humanity committed in The Gambia during the ruling of former president Yahya Jammeh (1994 to 2016) came to...

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Die Rückkehr des „Bloody November” im Iran

24.11.2022

Narin Nosrati

Das International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s Atrocities (dt. Das Internationale Tribunal zu den Gräueltaten des Iran, kurz Aban-Tribunal) verkündete nach zweijährigen Ermittlungen zu den Ereignissen vom November 2019 in Iran...

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The Return of Iran’s “Bloody November”?

21.11.2022

Narin Nosrati

On 30 September 2022, the International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s Atrocities (short Aban Tribunal) delivered its judgment after two years of investigation into the events of November 2019 in Iran....

Symposium
The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court

Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes

15.07.2022

Kim Thuy Seelinger

One metric by which the success or failure of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has often been measured is that of its record regarding sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBCs). This...