Afghanistan: ICC investigation request a seminal moment for international justice
November 22, 2017
Amnesty International’s response to the request from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an investigation into the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.
By Laura Haigh, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher. The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalised discrimination that amounts to apartheid, said Amnesty International today as it publishes “Caged without a roof”, a major new analysis into the root causes of the current crisis in Rakhine State.
Burundi. Le retrait de la CPI ne fera pas dérailler le cours de la justice
November 2, 2017
L'équipe Justice Internationale d'Amnesty International examine le retrait du Burundi de la CPI et ses conséquences pour les victimes des crimes internationaux commis dans le pays. L'équipe d'Amnesty International au Burundi a aussi contribué à l'analyse.
Burundi: ICC withdrawal will not derail wheels of justice
October 27, 2017
Amnesty International’s International Justice Team consider Burundi's withdrawal from the ICC and its consequences for victims of international crimes committed in the country.
Guinea: 8 years later, justice for massacre needed
October 10, 2017
Joint statement by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Association of Victims, Parents and Friends of the September 28 Massacre on the day of the eighth anniversary of the massacre perpetrated Guinea on September 28, 2009, at a Conakry stadium.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: last chance for justice for wartime sexual violence survivors
October 10, 2017
Two decades after the end of the war, many of the estimated 20,000 women who had been subjected to sexual violence are still battling with the devastating consequences of these crimes. This report paints a bleak picture of the conditions in which many survivors live today and shows how a combination of factors has resulted in the failure of the authorities to provide the victims with meaningful justice and reparation for the crimes they suffered.
UN: expert group to investigate violations in Yemen
October 5, 2017
A resolution was passed by the UN Human Rights Council on 29 September, mandating a group of international experts to investigate abuses by all parties to the conflict in Yemen; this is a momentous breakthrough that will pave the way for justice for countless victims of human rights abuses and grave violations of international law, including war crimes, said Amnesty International.
Al Mahdi case: women and girls must not be excluded from reparation
October 2, 2017
Adrienne Ringin, a student of University of Melbourne Law School’s International Criminal Justice Clinic, highlights important gender concerns arising in the International Criminal Court’s third reparations order. The piece includes input from Amnesty International’s Mali team.
