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Kenya urged to arrest Sudan’s President for genocide

27 Aug 10 - Sudan’s President Omar Bashir, against whom the International Criminal Court last month issued an arrest warrant for genocide, today visited Nairobi to attend the signing of Kenya’s new constitution. It is the second time he has visited a state party to the Rome Statute of the ICC since the genocide warrant was issued, having been to Chad in July.

 “As a state party to the Rome St...

Backgrounder: why dispute over 'intermediaries' has led 1st ICC trial to a stalemate

27 August 2010 - The role of intermediaries has become a critical issue in the trial against Thomas Lubanga. For months, they have been the target of allegations made by Defence witnesses in relation to their corrupt role in this case. The judges then decided to call two individuals - intermediaries 321 and 316 - to respond to the claims that they assisted Prosecution witnesses in falsifying evide...

Holocaust Centre founders receive triple award from Nottingham Trent University

26 July 2010 -

Nottingham Trent University last week making a rare triple award for a remarkable family, giving honorary doctorates to James, Stephen and their mother Marina Smith who in 1995 founded the UK’s first Holocaust memorial and education centre – at Laxton in the north of the county.

Since opening, The Holocaust Centre has received hundreds of thousands of visitors, most of them school...

Head of Khmer Rouge prison sentenced in Cambodia: Survivors and civil parties respond to trial verdict

26 July 2010 - The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), established to prosecute atrocities committed in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, have sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, to 35 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity. The 67-year-old the former schoolteacher worked for the Khmer Rouge as head of the Tuol Sleng detention facility, a converted school in which ...

New report: Sudan unprepared for risk surrounding referendum

14 July 2010 - With six months until a referendum on Southern independence, Sudan is alarmingly unprepared according to a new report published today by a global coalition of 26 humanitarian and human rights organisations. The report calls for urgent action from African heads of state who will meet shortly at a major summit of the African Union in Uganda from 19 - 27 July. Ahead of the summit, inte...