https://sagire.online/topic/international-justice/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/70a5d868/https://sagire.online/wire/70a5d868/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:23:00 -0300Retired Indian judge Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said the panel’s unequivocal conclusion was that Israeli security forces continued to commit “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide” a year after the October 2025 ceasefire brokered by the United States. The report says more than 75,000 Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been killed since October 7, 2023, including at least 21,500 children and 11,000 women. The document was presented by Muralidhar to the UN General Assembly on October 26; according to The Hindu, he could not present the report in person because the United States denied him a visa. The report calls on UN member states to “employ all means” to prevent the genocide, investigate and prosecute suspects, and establish clear rules for the use of artificial intelligence in conflicts.PalestineIsraelInternational justiceUnited NationsHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/25304826/https://sagire.online/wire/25304826/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300The United Nations General Assembly elected, in three rounds of balloting, Dapo Akande of the United Kingdom and four other judges to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for nine-year terms starting on February 6, 2027. Akande received 129 votes, in an election where the absolute majority was 97. Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud of Jordan and Phoebe N. Okowa of Kenya were re-elected, and François Alabrune of France and Rena Lee of Singapore were elected. Akande will become the first British judge on the court since 2018 and is expected to sit on the bench as the court decides the case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention in Gaza.United NationsInternational justiceUnited Kingdom https://sagire.online/wire/43cf84e2/https://sagire.online/wire/43cf84e2/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:25:00 -0300Japan’s government is considering financial aid to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has been hit by sanctions, following a call from the court’s president, according to Kyodo News.JapanInternational Criminal CourtInternational justiceSanctions https://sagire.online/wire/96e8c6f6/https://sagire.online/wire/96e8c6f6/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300Professor Dapo Akande has been elected a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The United Kingdom had not had a judge at the court for almost a decade, and Akande will serve a nine-year term. Nine candidates were running for the five seats in simultaneous elections in the Security Council and the General Assembly, which required an absolute majority in both bodies. The election was treated as a major British diplomatic victory, almost ten years after the previous British judge failed to win re-election.United KingdomInternational justiceUnited Nations https://sagire.online/wire/26689488/https://sagire.online/wire/26689488/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:22:00 -0300The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule on November 19 in the case in which Gambia accuses Myanmar of genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority, the court said on Tuesday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by U.S. News. The judges will start reading out their judgment at 8:00 GMT on November 19. Gambia argues that the 2017 offensive by Myanmar government forces, which forced at least 730,000 Rohingya to seek refuge in Bangladesh, constituted genocide. Myanmar denies the accusations and says the offensive was a legitimate counterterrorism campaign. It will be the first genocide judgment by the court in more than a decade and only the third in the tribunal's history. Gambia brought the case in 2019, and the outcome is likely to shape future cases, including South Africa's 2023 case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, a charge Israel denies.RohingyaMyanmarInternational justiceHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/480f4b6a/https://sagire.online/wire/480f4b6a/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:22:00 -0300France has opened a judicial investigation into a war crimes complaint over an Israeli strike on a residential building in Lebanon, according to the complainant’s lawyer, Clemence Bectarte, speaking to AFP. French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, whose parents were killed in the Beirut strike in 2024, filed the complaint as a civil party this year with the International Federation for Human Rights. The crimes against humanity unit of the Paris Judicial Court appointed two investigating judges to the case, a decision the lawyer called “a first.”FranceIsraelLebanonInternational justice https://sagire.online/wire/75616269/https://sagire.online/wire/75616269/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:21:00 -0300The French judiciary opened a judicial investigation into a war crimes complaint over an Israeli strike on a residential building in Lebanon, according to a lawyer who spoke to AFP on Tuesday. The crimes against humanity unit of the Paris Judicial Court appointed two investigating judges to the case, a move the lawyer described as a first. The complaint, seen by AFP, concerns the November 26, 2024 bombing that killed seven civilians, including Cherri's parents, aged 87 and 77, in a 12-story building in central Beirut; three floors were destroyed.FranceInternational justiceLebanonIsrael https://sagire.online/wire/5f4ecace/https://sagire.online/wire/5f4ecace/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:22:00 -0300International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane told the UN General Assembly on Monday that US sanctions against the court are an attempt to obstruct the course of justice. In a virtual address, she said the measures, imposed on October 9 — the same day the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to former ICC judge Navi Pillay — target 13 independent judges and prosecutors, including herself, and strike at “the heart of the sovereign equality of states.”International Criminal CourtUnited NationsUnited StatesInternational justiceSanctions https://sagire.online/wire/ace951c5/https://sagire.online/wire/ace951c5/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300Prosecutors from 10 EU member states — Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Finland — plus Australia are cooperating and sharing information on complaints of torture, kidnapping and ill-treatment of their nationals who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla missions, intercepted by Israel in international waters. According to legal sources who spoke to El País, the investigations target Israeli politicians, officials and military commanders, including members of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet. Those sources say the meeting took place on September 16 in The Hague, within a framework coordinated by Eurojust, the EU's judicial cooperation agency, with Australian representatives attending as guests.IsraelGazaHuman rightsInternational justice https://sagire.online/wire/3a02f250/https://sagire.online/wire/3a02f250/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:23:00 -0300Switzerland's Supreme Court upheld on Friday the 20-year prison sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for war crimes, but overturned his conviction for crimes against humanity, according to Al Jazeera.SwitzerlandInternational justiceHuman rightsJusticeAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/8a808903/https://sagire.online/wire/8a808903/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:24:00 -0300The United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry found that Israeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts in Gaza even after the ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, according to the commission's report. The commission pointed to at least 196 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire was signed in October 2025, and to Israeli control over Gaza going from 53% to at least 60%, according to the Associated Press (AP). The same commission accuses Israeli soldiers and prison guards of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the West Bank, including extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, according to AP.PalestineGazaIsraelUnited NationsHuman rightsInternational justice https://sagire.online/wire/e28b140c/https://sagire.online/wire/e28b140c/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300A UN independent commission of inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including extermination, persecution, torture and rape, and that it continues to commit genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians. In a report released Monday, the group of experts commissioned by the UN said the ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what it describes as genocide and accused Israeli forces of torture and rape in the West Bank. The document submitted to the General Assembly compares airstrikes in the West Bank: six Palestinians killed between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026.GazaWest BankIsraelUnited NationsHuman rightsInternational justiceConflict https://sagire.online/wire/b6b3bfb4/https://sagire.online/wire/b6b3bfb4/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:23:00 -0300The Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic is at risk of closure by 2028 with thousands of victims awaiting justice, Amnesty International says in a new report — the court has tried six cases since its inauguration on 22 October 2018, resulting in 19 convictions for war crimes and crimes against humanity.International justiceJusticeHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/cf49d5d5/https://sagire.online/wire/cf49d5d5/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:23:00 -0300A United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry accused the Israeli government of committing extermination, persecution, torture and rape against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, according to Opera Mundi. The body also said Israeli forces killed 1,080 Palestinians in the West Bank between October 2023 and September 2026, while more than 34,000 Palestinians remained displaced as of August. The independent commission accused Israel of crimes against humanity, including extermination, against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to UN News.West BankIsraelPalestineUnited NationsHuman rightsInternational justice https://sagire.online/wire/18eac7ed/https://sagire.online/wire/18eac7ed/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:22:00 -0300Israel kept committing genocide in Gaza after last October's US-brokered ceasefire, a UN commission said in a report published on Monday, according to Reuters. The report says Israeli authorities kept committing genocidal acts with the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the report a propaganda document detached from reality aimed at undermining the country's right to self-defense. The commission also recorded almost 500 Palestinians killed annually in the West Bank since 2022, the highest numbers since the UN started collecting that data, according to the Jerusalem Post.IsraelGazaWest BankUnited NationsInternational justiceHuman rights