Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by renewing an executive order key to establishing a war crimes court to address accountability for civil war-era crimes in the country.
This year Liberia will undergo the fourth review of its human rights records, as part of the UPR, a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council to periodically examine the human rights situation of all UN Member States.
TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the CJA, the ECCHR, the FIDH, and REDRESS, published the 2025 edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review.
Kunti Kamara's judgment marked a step forward in the fight against impunity. It sent an important message to both perpetrators and victims of the most serious crimes: these crimes do not go unpunished.
The world urgently needs a public mobilization around humanitarian law and the necessity of maintaining minimum standards of humanity in war.
The current rate of progress, gender equality won’t be achieved for well over a century. Recent data shows that without further action it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity.
The new U.S. administration is targeting both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Geneva Conventions, as evidenced by the new Secretary of Defense’s stance on international humanitarian law. It is time to wake up, writes Alain Werner.
On 23 January 2025, a pre-sentence evidentiary hearing was held in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in the case against Laye Sekou Camara, aka K-1.
For decades, hope for justice for victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria could be found neither in Syrian courts nor in international tribunals.
Laye Sekou Camara, alleged high-ranking member of the LURD, who was due to stand trial for immigration fraud in Philadelphia beginning on 21 January 2025 has plead guilty to all four counts of immigration fraud.
Laye Sekou Camara, also known by his noms de guerre “General K-1” and “General Dragon Master”, is alleged to have participated in Liberia’s brutal second civil war as a high-ranking member of the LURD.
The dramatic fall of the Syrian regime ten days ago has once again highlighted the growing importance of national jurisdictions in prosecuting the most serious international crimes.
