[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect .She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this article are solely those of...
[Mô Bleeker is a Senior Fellow at The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, and Special Advisor of the UNSG on the Responsibility to Protect .She served as Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.] The opinions shared in this article are solely those of...
[Maud Sarliève and Dr Pauline Martini are associate research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London] On 4 December 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched its groundbreaking Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage under the Rome Statute: severe environmental harm can now be prosecuted as an international crime. This document represents...
[Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international human rights organization dedicated to meeting urgent needs in communities facing crisis and using the human rights framework to create durable social change] For women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in Afghanistan, the struggle for justice has never been more urgent. With each passing day, the Taliban is consolidating power while the...
[Audrey Plan is a Research Engagement Specialist at University College Dublin, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and specialises in sociolegal research of international courts.] Nuremberg (2025) is the latest attempt to put the first, and arguably most famous, International Criminal Law (ICL) trial on the silver screen. Released in November...
[Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Chair of International Law at Tilburg University, and Senior Faculty at the Institute for Global Law and Policy of Harvard Law School (nikolasrajkovic.com). His research examines how international law is being reshaped by geopolitical, infrastructural, digital, and ecological transformations, drawing on interdisciplinary work across international law, international relations, and critical geography. He is the author of...
[Miguel Lemos is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra] On 14 November 2023, a French court issued an arrest warrant for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on “charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes”. On 26 June 2024, this decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals of Paris. The prosecutor-general at the Paris court...
[Bruno Biazatti is a doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg, and a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil] On 24 July, the Trial Chamber V (TC-V) of the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) issued its judgment in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona case, convicting both co-defendants of war crimes and...
[Heybatollah Najandimanesh is an associate professor of international law at Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran] Introduction The incorporation of international crimes into domestic legislation marks a pivotal stage in the development of international criminal law (ICL). Iran’s proposed Iran’s Draft Bill on International Crimes (IDBIC) seeks to criminalise genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression within its national legal framework. This initiative...
[Sabrina Rewald is a lawyer and independent legal consultant specialising in criminal justice, human rights, and technology, and a co-founder of Fénix Foundation. Basile Simon is the director of the law program at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity, and a fellow at Stanford University. Emma Irving is an independent legal consultant specialising in standards for digital evidence, and a co-founder of...
[Dr. Akanksha Bisoyi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Professorship of Law, Innovation and Legal Design, Technical University of Munich in Germany] Introduction Photographs as legal tools for truth-telling reflect the aphorism ‘seeing is believing’. These images range from visual depictions of war crimes to human rights violations, affirming their role in the objective portrayal of historical events. Photographs are forensic evidentiary mediums that are, paradoxically,...
[Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is a Visiting Associate Professor at Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law, senior legal advisor at MADRE and member of the Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group.] As governments move to negotiate a long-awaited...