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The decision to suspend the UNESCO "dictator prize" is a testament to the power of an informed global citizenry to strip away the veneer of untouchability from a corrupt human rights abuser with a god complex.

Many Afghans regard international forces as harming civilians, terrorizing local populations through night raids, and creating instability by bankrolling warlords and private militias.

By taking former child soldiers to The Hague to recount how they were conscripted, the battles they fought, and how they saw their fellow children kill and be killed in battle, the Lubanga war-crimes trial has given the world a vivid picture of...

Israeli investigations into alleged violations during the 2008 Gaza Conflict have not complied with international or comparative standards, according to an Open Society Justice Initiative analysis.

There is no doubt that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was brutally tortured while held in various CIA black sites, including in Poland. The U.S. government's own documents confirm this.

According to a recent survey, more than 99 percent of Nubians in Kenya identify themselves as Kenyan. But the government thinks otherwise.

A sordid saga of cross-border kidnapping, a kangaroo trial, and high-speed executions shows that the president of Equatorial Guinea takes his own solemn promises to reform no more seriously than anyone else.

Roma in Italy, burqas in France, minarets in Switzerland: the idea of European citizenship recedes with each affront to equality and solidarity.

As the glamor and intrigue continue in the war-crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor—with a Hollywood actress and a supermodel's former agent testifying in The Hague about blood diamonds—the view from Sierra Leone looks...

When debating international justice we must remember the important role of local courts, as they will try the vast majority of cases involving human rights violations and war crimes.

The supermodel's testimony in the Charles Taylor war-crimes trial will bring global attention to a bizarre and brutal tale of celebrities, blood diamonds, and intense human suffering.

Milan Makuc became homeless after his name—along with those of more than 18,000 other Slovenians—were deleted by the government from its official registry of residents. Eighteen years later a human rights court rectified this decision, but it came...

This week, more than 30 years since the Khmer Rouge was driven out of the city, the tribunal set up to try the architects of the regime's worst crimes finally delivered its first sentence. But does it amount to real justice for Cambodians?

Despite proof that police are singling out people who "look like" immigrants for identity checks in Spain, government officials continue to deny that such practices even exist.

The first man to be tried by the International Criminal Court has been released once again. But the Trial Chamber's decision does send a deeply important message about the ICC: this is no kangaroo court.

A new model provides a step toward finally making the presumption of innocence—and the humane treatment that goes along with it—a reality in Mexico.

Eighteen years ago, as the country of Yugoslavia began to break apart, Mustafa Kuric became stateless. Last week, the European Court of Human Rights took a small step toward redressing the injustice that Kuric and thousands of other long-term...

Fifteen years after Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, how effective has the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia been?

An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico's prisons and courtrooms.