A number of experts say they have never been more concerned about the state of international law. Powerful states like the US have threatened and imposed sanctions on institutions like the ...

Just when it seemed that the game’s shelf life was set to expire, the franchise released Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a groundbreaking anime miniseries from Studio Trigger. The 10 episode series left ...

Headline Jun 18, 2025 In Geneva, a group of U.N. experts has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that Israel was committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination.

International law does not require third countries to withhold aid from those committing crimes against humanity. That should change.

Russia's "widespread and systematic" use of enforced disappearances and torture of Ukrainians during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine amount to crimes against humanity, a United Nations ...

The report determined that Russia’s treatment of detained Ukrainians amounted to war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity. Amnesty researchers interviewed 104 people living in Ukraine ...

So, let us call the Vietnam War a series of crimes against humanity. Generally, crimes against humanity are considered worse than mere war crimes, since they are systematic and large-scale.

First, evidence suggested that it was carrying out crimes against humanity. Second, observers outside the country didn’t have a good sense of who, below the top level, was running the group.

In 2019, the ILC published its Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity and recommended them to the UN General Assembly.

Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an allegation Israel angrily denied.

Key UN committee adopts resolution paving the way for a first-ever treaty on crimes against humanity By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press, Updated November 23, 2024, 1:30 a.m.

The decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and a top Hamas official puts them in a small group of leaders to be accused of crimes ...