The trial of former Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic for suspected war crimes was suspended indefinitely today due to "errors" by prosecutors. | The International Criminal Court's presiding judge Alphons Orie said he had no choice but to delay the trial because of "significant disclosure errors" by prosecutors who are required to share all evidence with Mr Mladic's lawyers but did not do so.
If the global elite can contrive the International Criminal Court to provide cover for real crimes against humanity, why can't the people of the world create courts to convict them? Unlike the ICC which depends on military power to enforce its rulings...
Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to thank the Prosecutor for his briefing on the work of his office and actions taken pursuant to Resolution 1970. | As we have consistently noted, Resolution 1970 and its referral of the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court represented a historic milestone in the fight against impunity.
What's your opinion on this article? | LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - It's been 20 years since the historic gang truce between the Crips and Bloods in Los Angeles sparked peace work and inspired a national movement to quell urban violence in America's streets and save lives.
Charles Taylor took the stand at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, saying witnesses were threatened and bribed to testify against him. The former Liberian president called the court a Wes...
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Hanafi, Regional Coordinator of the Middle East and North Africa at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court says the ICC is necessary for Libya to develop its own fair and productive justice system.
Thomson Reuters Foundation: The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, will brief the Security Council on his Libya investigation on May 16, 2012. (New York) - Members of the United Nations Security Council should condemn attempts by the Libyan...
Arnold Munthali: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday he would not oppose a delay to the start of a trial of four prominent Kenyans, including two leading presidential hopefuls, accused of fuelling post-election violence in 2007. The group, including former Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Higher Education Minister William Ruto, are charged with masterminding the bloodshed that killed...
Keywords: by Margaret Besheer The International Criminal Court , or ICC, next month will consider whether to grant Libya's request to try the son of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in a domestic court. The international court has issued an arrest warrant for Saif...
Arment explores this idea in his new book The Elements of Peace , which identifies 30 virtues in all and illustrates them with a wealth of examples. From sustainability, embodied by the late Green Belt movement leader Wangari Maathai, to balance...
Mr Kony himself fled from Uganda in 2005. He has been ghosting through parts of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic ever since. Analysts think he now has fewer than 500 fighters. Peace talks between Uganda and his group have fallen apart and periodic manhunts have followed. Most are led by the Ugandan army, with the backing of its neighbours. Last year America sent some special forces.
Israel has become a punch bag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt's presidential race, playing on popular antipathy in Egypt towards its neighbour, but the realities of office are likely to ensure a 33-year-old peace treaty is not jeopardised.
A MEMORIAL commemorating the former RAF airfield at Tealing is to be unveiled on Sunday. | The day marks the 70th anniversary of the Russian Foreign Minister€™s, Vyacheslav Molotov€™s, historic landing at the base on his way to meet Winston Churchill to sign the Anglo-Russian Peace Treaty. | The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT)
In a report released by the advocacy group Global Zero, retired Gen. James Cartwright and others argue that the United States should reduce the total number of its warheads to 900 or less with only half of them deployed at any one time; take the weapons off what is known as high-alert status; and reconsider moves to create several new nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities across the country.
Canada is likely to be invited to play a larger role in Middle East negotiations, says the head of an international Jewish organization. | Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Minister John Baird in Ottawa on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Middle East, as well as anti-Semitism.
A Congolese rebel general, who has been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crime charges, has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says. According to the report...
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said he is hopeful that a Congolese warlord will be arrested within weeks. | Bosco Ntaganda is wanted on charges of committing crimes against humanity. | Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the BBC that DR Congo and Rwanda both now believed that Gen Ntaganda should be arrested and his position was therefore "fragile".
Wolf: I should have checked, but presuming that Bahrain is a member of the International Criminal Court , you know, anyone that commits war crimes can be held in the International Criminal Court . Most countries are members, the US is not.
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Radko Mladic went on trial yesterday in The Hague accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is accused of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats between 1992 and 1995. | Mass killings in Rwanda and the Balkans led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002. There are some similarities between the various cases in The Hague.
Which court will try the alleged Libyan war criminals Saif al-Islam Qaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi -- the International Criminal Court or a Libyan court? The lines on that issue became a bit clearer on Wednesday at the UN in New York.
NATION Reporter,: International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has said he is not opposed to delaying the trial of four Kenyans facing crimes against humanity charges until an appeal on jurisdiction is determined.
Sanya Khetani: "The hearing is adjourned sine die," said Judge Alphons Orie, three hours into the trial's second day at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Orie said judges aim to establish a new starting date "as soon as possible." Mladic's attorney has asked for a six-month delay, according to the AP.
Bosco Ntaganda is the bogeyman of eastern Congo. | This week the ICC prosecutor leveled additional charges of crimes against humanity against Ntaganda. | In April Ntaganda, known as 'The Terminator,' deserted from the Congolese army into which he had been integrated under a 2009 peace deal. Hundreds of his loyal troops followed him in the mutiny.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Monday evening that he will also seek to expand the charges facing Congo's Bosco Ntaganda, against whom a warrant was issued in April 2006. | Responding to queries from The New Times on Monday evening, the office of the ICC prosecutor expressed optimism that the two new arrest warrants would contribute to establishing peace and security in the Great Lakes region.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives. | Germain Katanga, 34, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 41, face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over the 2003 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich north-eastern Ituri province.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday said the four Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity do not have to appear in person at the status conferences scheduled for June this year. | ICC Spokesman Fadi el Abdallah told Capital FM News that the accused can be represented by their lawyers unless directed to appear individually by the court.
A Democratic Republic of Congo rebel general who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for recruiting child soldiers is again forcing boys into military service, Human Rights Watch said Wednes...
Twenty years after Serbian forces unleashed their campaign, Mladic will enter the international criminal court's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a frail 70-year-old, a far cry from the swaggering general who commanded Serb forces during a war that left...
Divisions have again emerged on the first few days of the latest round of international climate change talks in Bonn, with the EU and groups of developing countries clashing over the future of the controversial Kyoto protocol.
Supporters of the Catholic Workers social justice and peace movement march on Randolph Street after a protest Monday outside President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters at Prudential Plaza, where eight demonstrators were arrested. (José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune / May 14, 2012) | If there is no accountability to Congress, the will of the American people is being ignored.
Khaled Ali has been a champion of the poor for years. | CAIRO: Khaled Ali, Egypt's possible next president, has told Bikyamasr.com that that his plan to govern Egypt is based on the basis of social justice for every Egyptian, confirming quick steps if is stepping in his first steps as a new president of Egypt. | "My first decision will be canceling the peace treaty with Israel," he began.
Peace has broken out in among Ohio's fractious Republicans, and just in time for Mitt Romney, whose allies in Washington had grown alarmed about a Hatfield-and-McCoy-style blood feud that overtook the state's Republican Party nearly two years ago. | The replacement in early April of Chairman Kevin DeWine with a handpicked ally of Governor John Kasich — DeWine's nemesis...
Next week's NATO summit in Chicago gives NATO's current leaders an opportunity to showcase the alliance as a focusing instrument for waging war and securing peace in the 21st century. Created in 1949 and dedicated to Europe's defense...
The treaty “recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on either of the Parties would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common dangers in accordance with its constitutional processes.
The Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt has stated that if it is elected to power it will 're-examine' the Camp David Accords. The Camp David Accords between Egypt President's Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Begin were brokered by American President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and led directly to the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979.
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday.
BBC,: Renegade Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is still forcing youngsters to fight, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. | Over the past month nearly 150 young men and boys have been recruited in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to HRW. | Those who escaped talk of being taken at gunpoint from schools and villages.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation: Ntaganda, a former rebel leader turned army general, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes for previous recruitment and use of child soldiers. (Goma) - Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutinied against the Democratic...
Keywords: * At least 48 children recruited by Ntaganda since April * Clashes with army force thousands to flee * ICC expands charges against former army general DAKAR, May 16 (Reuters) - A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court...
OLIVER MATHENGE,: Kenya's MP and International Criminal Court suspect William Ruto and former Civil Service head Francis Muthaura will skip next month€™s meeting at The Hague to set ground rules for their trial. | It was not clear whether Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who is also facing charges of crimes against humanity, will attend the meeting, known in International Criminal Court (ICC) parlance as a status conference.
International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has announced new charges against a former Congolese rebel leader who is also a general in the Congolese Army despite having been already accused of war crimes. | In a statement Monday, Moreno-Ocampo said he is now seeking "an expansion of a current arrest warrant against Mr. Ntaganda,"
Keywords: €” A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.
During the next two weeks of SBSTA meetings, parties of the scientific and technical bodies of the UNFCCC will shape a draft text to develop and move forward with the agreements reached at the Conference of Parties (COP) 17 in Durban into the next round of climate talks in Doha, Qatar. | Currently REDD+ is mainly publicly funded through multilateral and bilateral partnerships.
In Late March, Italy seized 1.1bn euros worth of Gaddafi assets. It has been unraveling the Gaddafi business empire after receiving a request about this from the International Criminal Court.
Keywords: by Joel Shenton The trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is now under way at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Mladic, 70, is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, in connection...
THE HAGURE: The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said he is seeking arrest warrants for two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo.There is already a warrant out for renegade, General Bosco Ntaganda, but prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he wanted to add more charges to it.
The conviction of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga and ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor by the International Criminal Court should, as a matter of urgency, galvanise all conscientious Africans to call for changes in the administration and implementation of international criminal law.
The meeting that kicked off on Monday is centred on how to empower African courts to cover cases of international magnitude which are currently being handled by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. | Kenya's delegation is led by Attorney General Githu Muigai. | "The main agenda of the meeting is to expand the mandate of the court of justice to cover cases of crimes against humanity and other related cases,"
The International Criminal Court will hold hearings next month to set the trial date for four Kenyans accused of directing and financing post-election violence four years ago that killed 1,500 people. | The deliberations from June 11 to June 12 will also explore the safety of prosecution witnesses, whether to disclose their names and referrals to the ICC€™s witness protection program, the Hague-based court said today in an e-mailed statement.
Uganda€™s Amnesty Commission may consider pardoning a captured commander from Joseph Kony€™s Lord€™s Resistance Army because he isn€™t among the five rebel leaders indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, the Daily Monitor reported. | To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Ojambo in Kampala at fojambo@bloomberg.net.
Mauritian judges and 35 international participants, including a senior official of the International Criminal Court (ICC), will participate in the three-day workshop. 'Terrorism in Africa, the legal mechanisms to counter terrorism, international legal...
The International Criminal Court reported on Monday requesting new warrants to arrest suspects of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | The ICC prosecutor said he has requested additional charges be filed against Bosco Ntaganda, who already is wanted by The Hague war crimes court.
Keywords: by Veterans for Peace / May 15th, 2012 Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The International Criminal Court€™s prosecutor asked for new war crimes charges against a Democratic Republic of Congo general and a new arrest warrant for a Rwandan rebel based in Congo€™s violent east. | €œThe public request of the arrest warrant can contribute to demobilize those following Ntaganda and Mudacumura€™s orders,€ the prosecutor€™s office said. Both men currently lead rebellions in eastern Congo.
BBC,: By BBCPosted Tuesday, May 15 2012 at 09:47 The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said he is seeking arrest warrants for two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is already a warrant out for renegade General Bosco...
Abdul Moniem Abul Fotouh, a leading Egyptian presidential candidate in the May 23-24 election, said in an interview over the weekend that the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is “a national security threat” and needs to be revised.
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Abdul Moniem Abul Fotouh, a leading Egyptian presidential candidate in the May 23-24 election, said in an interview over the weekend that the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is “a national security threat” and needs to be revised.
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt's presidential election has branded Israel a "racist state" and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was "a national security threat" that should be revised. | Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh also denounced Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's assassination by US special forces as an act of "state terrorism," in a late Saturday Egyptian television interview.
Is the so-called "International Criminal Court" a racist organization? If not, then why is Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, suddenly fascinated by the prospect of trying war crimes in the DR Congo when an indictment against NATO was thrust before his eyes and he does nothing? And what about the NTC terrorists in Libya?
A human rights group has threatened to drag President Goodluck Jonathan and other key government officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands for crimes against humanity should the killings continue.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will be the subject of a high-level debate, "Building Restorative International Justice: the ICC of the Future" that will take place on 18 May 2012 at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London.
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for African rebel leaders Bosco Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumura, who are allegedly responsible for crimes against humanity in eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). | ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he hopes that "arrest warrants against leaders of militias could help to stop the crimes"
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: The African Union has "no reason" to bar Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from the pan-African grouping's summit in Malawi in July, a minister said on Monday. | Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. | "The chairman of the African Union has no reason not to invite President Omar al-Bashir,"
NAIROBI, Kenya, May, 15 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday said the four Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity do not have to appear in person at the status conferences scheduled for June this year. ICC Spokesman Fadi el Abdallah told Capital FM News that the accused can be represented by their lawyers [...]
The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor announced Monday that he is seeking the arrest of Sylvestre Mudacumura, commander of a brutal militia that has terrorized eastern Congo for years. | Ocampo also announced that he is seeking an expanded warrant on similar charges against rebel leader Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, a former general in the Democratic Republic of Congo's army.
The International Criminal Court€™s top prosecutor has called for the arrest of two Democratic Republic of Congo militia leaders. Bosco Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumara are accused of crimes against humanity. | ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday called for the arrest of the two men alleged to be responsible for a wave of killings and rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Standard Group: The International Criminal Court has released the agenda for the June 12 meeting between the Trial Chamber of the court and four Kenyan suspects of the 2008 post-election violence. | Top on the agenda of the 1pm status conference at The Hague will be to set the trial date for the suspects. That day could most certainly be this year unless the court is convinced on reasonable judicial grounds to push it to next year.
Last week's judgment by the North Gauteng High Court ordering South African authorities to investigate alleged torture by 18 high-ranking Zimbabwean officials was groundbreaking. | It was the first time a court had ordered the executive to implement South Africa's pioneering International Criminal Court Act of 2002, which authorises South Africa to prosecute the gravest crimes even beyond South Africa and when no South Africans are involved.
Slindo Mbuyisa: The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he has requested new arrest warrants related to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICC prosecutor said he has requested that additional...
Lawyers for Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic sought yesterday a six-month adjournment of his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court, two days before the hearing was due to open. | Mr Mladic, 70, stands accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since Nazi rule.
The guerilla movement, led by Joseph Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, became notorious for its use of kidnapped child soldiers. Ugandan army reportedly conducted a raid in the Central African Republic this weekend...
BRUSSELS, May 15 (KUNA) -- International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will brief the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the situation in Libya in New York tomorrow, Wednesday. The Hague-based ICC, in a statement Tuesday...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives. | Germain Katanga, 34, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 41, face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over the 2003 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich northeastern Ituri province.
5/15/2012 6:48 AM ET (RTTNews) - Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), said on Monday that he was seeking new warrants for the arrests of two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | Addressing a news conference at the U.N.
The trial was based on the principles set out in the Nuremburg Charter, to which the US is subject. The commission has sent all documents and transcripts to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor on Monday sought new war crimes charges against Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda and another notorious Democratic Republic of Congo warlord. | Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumura are two of the "most dangerous" men in a region where millions have been killed in the past 20 years, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in announcing the charges.
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) has dismissed the proposal that the four suspects of the Kenya's post-election violence cases be transferred from The Hague and face charges before the East African Court of Justice in Arusha.
Vinsinfo: Netanyahu Says Broader Coalition Enhances Peace Prospects | GCC Countries Weigh Closer Union | Leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are weighing a plan to strengthen their political ties as they begin meeting on Monday. Details remain unclear, but Bahrain's State Minister for Information, Samira Rajab, suggested that it could follow the "European Union model." As a precursor...
About 1,500 people took part in a march of unionists in front of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau on Sunday, Moldnews reported. | The event was timed to the 200th anniversary of the conclusion of the Bucharest Peace Treaty, signed on May 16, 1812, after the Russian-Turkish war. | The territory of modern Moldova covers most of the historical region of Bessarabia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812.
Los Angeles Times: Arsala Rahmani, a member of the High Peace Council, is gunned down in Kabul. His position as an ex-minister in the Taliban government made him a valuable asset.
"It is a treaty that forbids Egypt from exercising full sovereignty in Sinai and allows Israelis to enter Sinai without visas, while they need visas for Cairo," he told Egypt's CBC television in an interview. | Under the peace accord, Israel withdrew from the captured Sinai in 1982, returning it to Egypt. In return, Egypt agreed to leave the area demilitarized. | Aboul-Fotouh is third place with support of 17.
0: A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt€™s presidential election has branded Israel a €œracist state€ and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was €œa national security threat€ that should be revised, Egyptian media reported. Abdul Moniem Abul Fotouh, a front runner in the May 23-24 election according to polls, had earlier described Israel as an €œenemy€ in a televised debate with his main contender, former Arab League chief Amr...
Will Israel's 'king' seek peace deal? | I'm talking about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last week struck a deal to bring one of his main rivals, the Kadima party, into his government. Netanyahu's coalition now commands more than three-quarters of the Knesset €” the largest parliamentary majority in Israeli history. | Netanyahu faces no plausible rival as prime minister.
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh brands Israel a ‘racist state’, denounces Bin Laden's assassination as act of ‘state terrorism’. | CAIRO - A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt's presidential election has branded Israel a "racist state" and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was "a national security threat" that should be revised. | Abul Fotouh, a front runner in the May 23-24 election according to polls, had earlier described Israe...
GOMA, DR Congo, May 13 – Scores of residents fled heavy fighting between government forces and army mutineers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, a local source told AFP. Disgruntled troops have fought for weeks under rebel leader General Bosco Ntaganda — known as the Terminator and wanted by the International Criminal [...]
Ugandan commanders displayed Caesar Achellam to reporters after his capture in what they said was a weekend raid in the Central African Republic. The CAR is one of several African Union countries that has committed troops to hunt down LRA chieftain Joseph Kony, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. | Achellam told reporters he hoped his capture would lead "my people remaining in the brush" to give up...
KAMPALA, Uganda €” A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border. Kony recently became the focus of international attention after the U.S. advocacy group Invisible Children made an online video seeking to make him famous.