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This family fled violence in Venezuela and moved to Cucuta, Colombia. File photo (April 2019).

Venezuela abuses amounted to crimes against humanity: UN-appointed panel

16 September 2020

Grave rights violations against anti-government protesters in Venezuela, “amounted to crimes against humanity”, UN-appointed rights investigators said in their first report on abuses inside the Latin American nation.

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Uniting political will and theatre to end wartime rape

22 June 2016

General News

The sentencing this week of a former Congolese rebel leader for crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been hailed by the UN as a sign of progress in global action to end impunity for wartime rape.

The conviction of Jean-Pierre Bemba by the International Criminal Court came just days after the first commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, observed on 19 June.

UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN Gender Focus: wartime sexual violence, indigenous peoples and refugee mothers

12 May 2016

UN Gender Focus

Sexual violence in conflict crimes “so bad” in South Sudan

Security Council welcomes plans for setting up war crimes court for Sierra Leone

24 July 2001

Members of the United Nations Security Council have welcomed plans to move forward with the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone, according to a letter released today at the world body's Headquarters in New York.

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UN prosecutor presses Republika Srpska leaders to arrest war crimes suspects

5 July 2001

The Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today demanded that leaders of the Republika Srpska surrender indicted suspects to the UN court for trial.

UN human rights chief welcomes Belgrade's cooperation with war crimes tribunal

25 June 2001

Calling it a major step forward in the fight against impunity, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson today welcomed the decree issued by the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opening the way for the transfer of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

After talks in Washington, UN war crimes prosecutor foresees speedy progress

10 May 2001

Following a series of high-level meetings in the United States capital, the Prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunals said in New York today that she foresaw "positive results" in achieving the court's goals in the near future.

List of nominees for judges at UN war crimes tribunal sent to Security Council

23 April 2001

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today sent the United Nations Security Council a list of 60 candidates to serve as "temporary" or ad litem judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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