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NEWS ABOUT: International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court stories: 16 news summaries

 Israel Committed 
 War Crimes in Gaza: 
 UN Report 

Fact-finding mission recommends world court prosecutor take action

Sep 29, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel committed "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during the three-week Gaza war, according to a UN special report that will be released today. The fact-finding mission, headed by the Jewish South African judge Richard Goldstone, also determined that Palestinian militants committed war crimes, but reserved... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • war crimes • crimes against humanity • UN Human Rights Council • International Criminal Court • Gaza war • Arab-Israeli conflict • Richard Goldstone

opinion

 Angelina: UN Must 
 Take a Stand on Darfur 

Jolie writes for Time magazine

Jun 5, 09 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angelina Jolie argues in a Time essay that it's put-up-or-shut-up time for the UN on Darfur. The Security Council will receive a report today on the nation's genocide under the watch of Omar al Bashir, and its response will determine whether the idea of an "international standard of justice"... More »

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entertainment • Darfur • genocide • Angelina Jolie • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • UN Security Council • International Criminal Court

Sudan Invites Aid Groups
Back to Darfur

After getting the boot in March, NGOs to return to troubled region

May 8, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Sudanese government says it will invite new aid groups to work in Darfur and let the UN and other agencies expand their operations in the region. The announcement comes two months after Sudan expelled 13 NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, in the aftermath of the International Criminal Court's indictment... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Darfur • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • Doctors Without Borders • humanitarian organizations • humanitarian aid • International Criminal Court

Analysis

Fierce Rivalries Shape, Threaten Kenyan Politics

Power sharing compromise has resulted in a rancorous impasse

Apr 25, 09 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Election violence in 2007 gave way to an uneasy coalition between Kenyan PM Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki, but that move seems only to have transformed the fighting on the streets into squabbling in the capital. Now, "Kenya does not have a functioning executive at all, just an... More »

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Kenya • corruption • government • Kofi Annan • political factions • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga • International Criminal Court • election violence

'Fugitive' Sudan Prez
Defies World Court

Al-Bashir's Saudi trip seen as effort to undermine support for international justice

Apr 2, 09 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan's president thumbed his nose at the International Criminal Court with a high-profile pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday, reports the Times of London. A ruling last month requires the court's 108 members to arrest Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity in Darfur if he enters their nations. Many see his trips... More »

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Darfur • Saudi Arabia • Sudan • war crimes • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court • arrest warrant

 Sudan President Defies Darfur 
 Warrant, Ejects Aid Groups 

Aid groups ejected from Darfur as Bashir denounces 'colonialists'

Mar 5, 09 6:32 AM CST
(Newser) - A day after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest for atrocities in Darfur, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir vowed to defy the court and called its decision a colonial conspiracy. The New York Times reports that Sudan's government also ordered 10 international humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, to leave... More »

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Darfur • genocide • Sudan • The Hague • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court • arrest warrant

(Newser) - The International Criminal Court today issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charging him with murder, extermination, and rape, among other war crimes and crimes against humanity, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors say orders to kill or displace tribal people in Sudan’s Darfur region, which resulted in... More »

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Africa • Darfur • Sudan • war crimes • crimes against humanity • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court • arrest warrant

World Court Issues Warrant for Sudan President

Bashir may be tried for genocide, war crimes

Feb 11, 09 5:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, a move that Arab and African nations warn could sink peace negotiations in Darfur. Omar al-Bashir is the first state leader that the 7-year-old court has tried to arrest, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors hope to try... More »

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United Nations • genocide • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • criminal trial • International Criminal Court

Int'l Criminal Court Opens With Congo Trial

In first case, warlord pleads not guilty to using child soldiers

Jan 26, 09 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The International Criminal Court in The Hague began its first trial today, as a Congolese militia leader pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers. The court's prosecutor accused Thomas Lubanga of using hundreds of boys as young as nine "to kill, pillage, and rape" in the Democratic... More »

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war crimes • The Hague • child soldier • Democratic Republic of Congo • Congo • International Criminal Court • war crimes tribunal • Thomas Lubanga

(Newser) - Pressure from nonprofits and watchdogs is mounting on the UN to intercede in Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis, GlobalPost reports. Physicians for Human Rights asserts that Robert Mugabe intentionally dismantled the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure, and is directly responsible for the cholera outbreak that has claimed 1,800 lives.... More »

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health care • Africa • United Nations • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • sanitation • crimes against humanity • International Criminal Court • cholera • Physicians for Human Rights

 Sudan Pushes Darfur Ceasefire 

Cooperation from rebels uncertain; past such efforts proved fruitless

Nov 12, 08 4:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced a unilateral ceasefire in Darfur today, saying the government would begin disarming militias. But no rebels were included in the ceasefire discussions, and similar declarations have failed repeatedly. Bashir is trying to persuade international prosecutors to hold off on attempts to indict him for genocide,... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • ceasefire • International Criminal Court

Sudan Rallies Behind Leader, Despite Darfur

Indicted president
seen as only hope of preventing anarchy

Jul 28, 08 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Omar al-Bashir is reviled across the world for presiding over the mass murder of his own people in Darfur, and now the Sudanese president has been accused of genocide by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. But within Sudan his rule has become more secure than ever, as opponent... More »

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Africa • Darfur • Sudan • Crisis in Darfur • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court

OPINION

 Karadzic Arrest
 Shows the Hague's Value

Even warrants can hurt bad actors

Jul 23, 08 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - For all those who doubt the effectiveness of an International Criminal Court warrant, just look at Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Samantha Power imagined the arrest differently when she was reporting from Sarajevo in 1995, but his diminished circumstances now show just how crippling and demeaning it is to run... More »

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Bosnia • Serbia • Yugoslavia • Radovan Karadzic • Sarajevo • Samantha Power • International Criminal Court

 Sudan Swats Away 
 Genocide Charge 

Official says country will work to block international court's indictment of president

Jul 15, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan aims to obstruct an international tribunal's efforts to hold its leader responsible for genocide, the BBC reports. The International Criminal Court's charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against president Omar al-Bashir are designed to engender tension between tribal groups in Darfur, a senior official said today,... More »

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genocide • Sudan • war crimes • Crisis in Darfur • African Union • Arab League • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court

Sudan President Accused of
War Crimes

Court could arrest al-Bashir over Darfur genocide

Jul 14, 08 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was officially accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity today in International Criminal Court, the BBC reports. The court must now decide whether to issue a warrant for Bashir’s arrest. If it does, Sudan’s government says it will disrupt the peace process... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • war crimes • crimes against humanity • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court

Sudan's President to Face Genocide Charge

Some fear move out of the Hague could fuel instability in region

Jul 11, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The International Criminals Court will charge Sudan leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir with genocide Monday in the wake of a five-year campaign of violence that has left hundreds of thousands dead, the Washington Post reports. It will be the first time the court has charged a sitting head of state. But... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • Sudan • peacekeeping force • Omar al Bashir • emergency aid • International Criminal Court

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