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The New York Times reported Monday that the United States is withdrawing from the International Centre for The Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA). “The US authorities have informed me that they will conclude their involvement in the ICPA by the end of March” Michael Schmid, president of the European Union Agency for [...]

The White House published a proclamation signed by President Trump on Saturday, outlining a broad crackdown on members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) criminal network. The directive ordered the immediate apprehension and removal of all eligible Venezuelan nationals affiliated with the group, stating that TdA constitutes a “designated Foreign Terrorist Organization” engaged in an [...]

The Helsinki District Court in Finland on Friday sentenced a 38-year-old man to life for committing war crimes in Ukraine. Voislav Torden, 38, a Russian-Norwegian better known as Yan Petrovskiy, was a deputy leader of a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit called Rusich, during Russia’s first attacks on Ukraine in 2014. According to the prosecutors of Helsinki’s [...]

Amnesty International on Friday called former Philippines President Rodrigo Rua Duterte’s appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) a “symbolic moment” for the families of those killed during his administration’s “war on drugs.” Amnesty International’s Southeast Asia researcher Rachel Chhoa-Howard stated: Rodrigo Duterte’s appearance at the International Criminal Court is a sight families of the [...]

A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday found that Israel’s military operations in Gaza since October 7, 2023 have disproportionately impacted Palestinian women and girls, through their systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence. The report, which was presented by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on [...]

The Peruvian Congress approved Wednesday a controversial reform to the 2002 legislation that created the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI) and oversees international aid. The amendment received widespread criticism from human rights organizations, alleging that it hinders the ability of civil society groups to sue the government for human rights violations. The amendment expands [...]

Last month, actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home. Along with their bodies, one of the couple’s dogs, a 12-year-old Australian kelpie named Zinna, was also found dead. How they died matters, as in all cases of unexplained death. When death appears to be criminal, investigators [...]

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe issued a set of decisions on Tuesday for the Russian authorities to follow concerning the situation in Crimea. The Committee of Ministers issued the decisions following meetings between March 4 and 6, 2025. In the meetings, the Committee of Ministers urged Russian authorities to restore Ukrainian [...]

The UN Human Rights spokesperson on Syria confirmed the deaths of 111 Syrian civilians in recent mass killings, in a Geneva press briefing on Tuesday. The spokesperson remarked that the true number is believed to be “significantly higher.” The spokesperson, Thameen Al Kheetan, said that the office is currently working on verifying and documenting civilian [...]

Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of secular considerations. Though far less decipherable and recognizable, these expressions may also include implicit promises of personal immortality. There is meaningful [...]