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Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court: request for arrest warrants of two senior Taliban officials for the crime against humanity of gender-based persecution represents a historic step for Afghanistan and international justice

Rodrigo Roa Duterte (on screens), President of the Republic of the Philippines, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
© UN Photo/Manuel Elías
International Criminal Court

ICC took crucial step to ensure accountability for victims of the most serious crimes with arrest of Former Philippine President Duterte

Families flee their shattered neighbourhood, Tal al-Hawa, to seek refuge in the southern Gaza strip.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
Occupied Palestinian Territories

“More than a human can bear”: Report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory on sexual violence, 13 March 2025

Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
International Criminal Court

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requests referring Italy to the Assembly of States Parties and the Security Council for failure to cooperate in the Almasri case

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
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International Criminal Court

Comment on Italy's failure to execute ICC arrest warrant (the Almasri case)

Stylized image representing two faces, realized through the use of barbed wire
international days

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2025

Courtroom at the International Criminal Court
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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court calls on Italy to fully cooperate after failing to arrest Libyan General Osama Elmasry Njeem

A Palestinian searches through rubble of his destroyed home hit by Israeli strikes in Towers Al-andaa - the northern Gaza Strip.
© UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Human Rights Watch: new report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s forced displacement practices of Palestinians in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Genocide as colonial erasure: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese

Jews from Subcarpathian Rus are subjected to a selection process on a ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
© US Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Yad Vashem
genocide, crimes against humanity

Genocide and Memory: A Comparative Analysis of the Holodomor and the Holocaust

In 1995, a government soldier reads the names of soldiers who are among the survivors or escapees from the fallen city of Srebrenica
genocide, crimes against humanity

International Day of reflection for Srebrenica genocide, 11 July 2024

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Peru

OHCHR: Peru Crimes against Humanity Fight a Ticking Clock

The official logo for UN constituted by the polar stereographic projection of the globe surrounded by two laurel branches
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special rapporteur

An extradition order ignored by Italy – UN experts' communication concerning a priest accused of crimes against humanity during Argentinian 1976 dictatorship

United Nations

United Nations: "Anatomy of a genocide", Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (2024)

#Call4Peace initiative
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

#Call4Peace initiative: Open letter to European Union, through the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, "Peace for Israel and Palestine grounded in international law"