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Berlin, April 21, 2022. The opening of the first German trial  for serious crimes committed in Gambia...
Geneva, 12 April 2022 - A mobile court opens today in Bana Ba Ntumba, Democratic Republic of Congo, to prosecute those a...
Premier procès_Kananga 2021
Major Advance for Victims of Abuses During Yahya Jammeh Rule (Berlin and Geneva, 03.03.2022) – The indictment in German...
Portrait of Baba Hydara
Geneva, 8 February 2022 - It is a giant step forward in the fight against impunity. The Swiss Office of the Attorney Gen...

Denying wartime horrors is now a criminal offence in BiH

29.07.2021 - (Last modified: 31.08.2021)
Denial of genocide and other war crimes, that is likely to incite violence or hatred, is now prohibited by law in Bosnia...
The mining riches of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attract violence from (and b...
After nearly 28 years, the survivor of a rape committed during the war in Foča finally saw her two attackers convicted i...
Geneva/Goma, 23 November 2020. For immediate release. Two years almost to the day after its opening, the case against t...
Goma/Geneva, 20 November 2020 - for immediate release. The verdict is nearing for the warlord Ntabo Ntaberi, better know...
Murals glorifying war criminals, graffiti of fascist symbols, fascist slogans being chanted at football matches, the den...
Why do so few victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) receive reparations even as the number of conviction...

DRC: three militiamen convicted in Kalehe

07.09.2020 - (Last modified: 08.09.2020)
On 22 August 2020 three members of a militia in South Kivu were convicted by the Bukavu military tribunal. Bitale Leonar...