Wednesday, 13 January 2010 For the first time in the history of international criminal justice, a victim takes the stand to give evidence in person. He has not been called by the Prosecution, nor by the Defence. He comes to this Court at his own request, "to tell the world" about the abuses that occurred [...]
25 Feb 10 - During his visit to Rwanda today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. There he laid flowers at the mass graves where over 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried, and observed a minute of silence in memory of the million dead, before touring the main exhibition, [...]
26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is [...]
9 Jan 2010 – Today, thousands of activists gathered at events in 15 countries in a global coordinated effort, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a return to severe and widespread conflict in Sudan. See film of the London rally here. Sudan365 (www.sudan365.org), a year of campaigning for Sudan, has been [...]
Friday, 8 January 2010 After a long hiatus, the first trial before the ICC recommences with a clear statement: the Court must give justice to girls recruited by the militia of the accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for children and armed conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, took the stand [...]
10 December 2009 - We're very flattered to have been jointly nominated, with Redress, for the Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Awards. Both organisations have been put forward for: "For their pivotal role, through concerted lobbying, in obtaining key changes to British law relating to crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, and in obtaining justice for [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
3 Nov 09 - Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home [...]
23 Oct 2009 - Following concerted lobbying from a coalition of peers, leading legal figures and human rights NGOs, the Government yesterday tabled a fresh amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill that will help close a legal loophole which has in the past allowed genocide and war crimes suspects to visit the UK or [...]