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Event: Hidden Genocides – Summer Course
Date: 12 – 31 July 2015 Venue: Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam The Twentieth Century was considered, by many scholars who study political violence, “the century of genocide”...
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The Armenian Genocide Legacy 100 Years On
THE HAGUE – On 5, 6 and 7 March 2015, 22 experts gathered for a conference at The Hague Institute for Global Justice to look at the legacy of the Armenian Genocide from the perspective of law,...
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2015 International Criminal Court Summer School
Date: 15-19 June 2015 Location: Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, University Rd, Galway, Ireland. The annual International Criminal Court Summer School at the Irish Centre...
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Auschwitz Bookkeeper Nazi War Crimes Trial
Today started what should be one the final trials for Nazi war crimes in Lueneburg, Germany. Oskar Groening, former guard at Auschwhitz, is facing charges of accessory to the murder of about 300,000...
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Canadian Governments and Churches Pursued a Policy of “Cultural Genocide”
Representatives of First Nations peoples took part in a march in Ottawa last Saturday Canadian governments and churches pursued a policy of “cultural genocide” against the country’s aboriginal people...
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University of Amsterdam: Summer Course on “Hidden Genocides”
The Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam is known for its high academic standards. Its summer programme: “Hidden Genocides: Overshadowed by the Holocaust” is another...
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South African Court Grants Order Preventing al-Bashir’s Departure
Omar Al Bashir Pretoria High Court Judge Hans Fabricius has granted the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) a temporary order to prevent Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South...
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Rwanda’s Intelligence Chief Arrested under European Arrest Warrant
General Karake ©Getty Images General Karenzi Karake, director general of Rwanda’s National Intelligence and Security Services, was arrested on Saturday, 20 June at Heathrow Airport on the basis of a...
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Twenty Years Since Srebrenica: No Reconciliation, We’re Still At War
by Refik Hodzic* Right now, people in the Balkan region are still living a war, this time for the ‘truth’ about ethnic superiority that will shape the attitudes of future generations. Bosnia and...
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Russia Vetoes UN Resolution to Call Srebrenica Massacre as ‘Genocide’
Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have described the Srebrenica massacre as “genocide”. Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said adopting it “would be...
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Serbia Charges Eight Men over Srebrenica Massacre
Prosecutors in Serbia have charged eight people over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The men charged today belonged to a special Bosnian-Serb police unit that was operating in the eastern village of...
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ECHR: Turkish Politician Had Right to Deny Armenian Genocide
Doğu Perinçek Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of Perinçek v Switzerland. The Grand Chamber held by majority that there had...
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Srebrenica Families Sue the Netherlands Before the ECHR
The families of three Bosnian Muslims filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the Netherlands for failing to investigate whether its peacekeeping commanders in Srebrenica...
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Investigation Reveals ‘Strong Evidence’ of Genocide against Rohingya
Rohingya People who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape violence (AP Photo/Anurup Titu) According to a news article by Al Jazeera of Tuesday the 27th of October, there is ‘strong evidence’ that a...
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Publication: The Armenian Genocide Legacy
On the centennial of the acts commonly referred to as the Armenian Genocide, academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines discuss the impact of the Genocide in their respective fields. In...
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ECCC: New Suspect Charged with Genocide in Case 004
The International Co-Investigating Judge Michael Bohlander of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) has charged Ta Tith, or Yim Tith, with crimes including genocide in Case 004. A...
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Rwanda Genocide: Arrest of Ladislas Ntaganzwa
One of the last suspects wanted for alleged involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, has been arrested in Democratic Republic of Congo. Ladislas Ntaganzwa, 53, is accused of...
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ICTR Delivers its Final Appeal Judgment
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) delivered its judgment of the appeals in the trial of The Prosecutor vs. Nyiramasuhuko et al. (Butare Case) on the 14th of...
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General Zdravko Tolimir Passed Away in Jail
Zdravko Tolimir passed away last night in the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague. In April last year, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)...
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John Kerry: IS is Committing Genocide in Iraq and Syria
John Kerry delivering his statement on IS on 17 March 2016 United States Secretary of State John Kerry today officially determined the Islamic State group (IS) is committing genocide and crimes against...
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