Israel refutes South Africa’s accusations at UN world court
Linked to South Africa’s ongoing case accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian calls for sovereignty were recognised by the International Court of Justice...
Crimes against nature: UN agency puts environmental legislation under scrutiny
"Stronger legislation can help deter potential and repeat offenders and expand the range of investigative tools and resources for law enforcement to stop crimes...
Sudan war: ‘Horror’ grows as reports of summary executions emerge
The warning on Thursday comes as the SAF launched a major offensive last month to regain control of key areas currently held by the...
What is the International Criminal Court?
Established in 2002 and based in The Hague, the ICC is a criminal court that can bring cases against individuals for war crimes or...
UN investigative team hands over key ISIL crime data to Iraq
Thus far, some 28 terabytes (TB) of data have been transferred, representing a majority of the 40TB held by the UN Investigative Team to...
ICC Prosecutor appeals for evidence of Darfur atrocities
In a video posted on social media, Karim Khan urged victim groups, civil society organizations, national authorities, and international partners to engage with his...
UN war crimes tribunals move closer to completion
The President and Prosecutor with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) briefed ambassadors on progress made over the past two years as...
First Person: Philippines ‘cyber cops’ tackle explosion of online child abuse
The Southeast Asian country has been identified as one of many trouble spots for online child abuse on the internet, a phenomenon which has...
First Person: Moving from fear to hope after war on drugs in the Philippines
Thousands of people across the Southeast Asian country were reportedly killed during the so-called war on drugs which was promoted by the last Filipino...
Feeling ‘90 per cent stronger’: Families in the Philippines help prevent drug abuse
Rowena Cruz participated in the Strong Families programme run by the local government through the Anti-drug Abuse Council of Pasig (ADCOP) and backed by...
World News in Brief: ICC convicts Malian extremist of war crimes, Sudan crisis update,...
Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mohamed was also found guilty of crimes against humanity. The charges included flogging, sexual slavery and...
World Drug Day report highlights spike in drug use, increased trafficking
The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, or World Drug Day, is commemorated every year on June 26 and aims to increase action...
Road safety gets a boost with new UN fix for ‘pedal error’
Together with vehicle manufacturers and governments, the UN Working Party dealing with advanced driving technology issues has adopted a new regulation that prevents unwanted, sudden...
World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation...
New data from the International Organization for Migration indicates a 22 per cent spike in the number of people uprooted from their homes since...
Southeast Asia: Torture rooms and karaoke bars in gang-run ‘scam farms’
There are estimated to be some 400 of these criminal enterprises in the Philippines alone. They are almost always operated clandestinely and illegally alongside...
Crushing the scam farms: Southeast Asia’s ‘criminal service providers’
As we reported earlier in the week, there has been a proliferation of illicit operations, known as scam farms, following the COVID-19 pandemic, across...
First Person: Filipino elderly ex-prisoner’s joy of ‘sleeping and eating’
According to Government figures, the number of inmates are four times over the planned capacity, making the Philippines one of the most overcrowded penal...
UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
The development came as UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “escalation after escalation” in the Middle East on Tuesday and as UN High Commissioner for...
Philippines: Humane approach to incarceration relieves chronic prison overcrowding
At the Manila City Jail in the Philippines capital, prisoners lie in neat rows as they demonstrate how they sleep every night.In male dormitory...
Less ‘sleeping like sardines’, as Philippines adopts Nelson Mandela Rules for jails
The Nelson Mandela Rules, which are named after the former South African president who was unjustly incarcerated for 27 years, are playing a key part in...
National Reparations Strategy Session Urgent Call to Action
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World News In Brief: UN rights chief on Bangladesh protests, alarm over Gershkovich sentence,...
Volker Türk said the move constituted a restriction on freedom of expression and the right to seek, receive, and impart information.The High Commissioner continues...
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world court
The Court was responding to a request for an advisory opinion by the General Assembly on the legal consequences arising from the policies and...
