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Netherlands high court rules UN immune from suit
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled Friday that the relatives of Bosnian men murdered by Serbian forces in 1995 cannot sue the UN for failing to protect them during the massacres. The ruling essentially held that the UN is immune from prose (More) |
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Lubanga Verdict a Victory for Victims and ICC
JURIST Guest Columnist Niccolò Pons, Assistant Legal Officer of the Pre-Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court, says that the guilty verdict against Thomas Lubanga, the first verdict issued by the ICC, is a victory for both the forme (More) |
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Mladic pleads not guilty to all charges of war crimes
Former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic [ICTY case materials; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty to all charges in a pre-trial brief released Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Ml (More) |
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Serbia military chief files libel suit against rights activist
Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic on Monday brought a libel suit against the head of a Serbian human rights group that accused him of failing to prevent war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during the war in Kosovo . Natasa Kandic, director of the Humanitaria (More) |
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ICTY war crimes suspect Seselj says tribunal is biased
Serb nationalist politician and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [official website, in Serbian; JURIST news archive] on Thursday told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that he believes the tribunal is (More) |
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Congo militia leader found guilty in landmark first ICC verdict
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Wednesday issued its first verdict, a unanimous decision [judgment, PDF; press release] that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty of the war crimes of enlisting and (More) |
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ICTY prosecutors demand 28-year sentence for Seselj
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday demanded a 28-year prison sentence for former Serb nationalist politician and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [official website, in Serbian; JURIST (More) |
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Former Yugoslavia municipal officer sentenced to 2 months for refusing to testify
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Friday sentenced former president of the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Tupajic , to two months in prison on two (More) |
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Accused war criminal calls Yugoslavia tribunal 'biased'
Former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], accused the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of being "biased" against Serbs and a "puppet" of the North Atlantic Treaty Orga (More) |
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Potential Perils of Localizing International Criminal Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law says atrocity justice localization may not work for countries, such as Cambodia, so thoroughly lacking in justice culture and infrastructure and that localization m (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
