Customary International Law

The International Criminal Court must reform to better bring the masterminds of mass atrocities to justice, experts have said.

Amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea, the USS Hopper (DDG 70) undertook a decisive operation on November 25, asserting navigational rights and freedoms near the Paracel Islands—a strategic move consistent with international law. This freedom of navigation operation ("FONOP") sent a resolute message, challenging restrictive practices imposed by the People's Republic of China

The Rwanda plan is in tatters - and it is very difficult to see how the PM can salvage its flagship policy.

A persistent irritant to Britain's ruling Conservatives since its creation after Brexit, campaign group Led by Donkeys has built a big online audience with its largely humour-led attempts at political accountability.Founded by four friends in a pub in 2018, the collective's campaigns and stunts skew...

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A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near one of the most important man-made and Chinese controlled islands in the South China Sea on Monday, in a freedom of navigation mission that Beijing denounced as illegal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration has determined that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has legal immunity from a lawsuit filed...

THE HAGUE & SRINAGAR, Dec 04 (IPS) - At the International Court of Justice on Tuesday, December 4, 2024, Brazil called for climate justice, and Canada urged swift action on the world's "greatest challenge," while China advocated for equity and development rights. These countries are among the 98 that will make presentations during the fortnight of hearings, after which the court will give an advisory opinion.

Fin whales aren't doing so well, population-wise. Despite that, Japan added them to the list of whales permitted to be hunted by Japanese commercial whalers.

The UN's top human rights official on Friday made a strong call for accountability for serious violations committed by all parties in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

The Australian Navy is set to be transformed. On top of existing plans for nuclear submarines, the government yesterday announced a scheme for an "enhanced lethality surface combatant fleet" including six new "optionally crewed" vessels.

In the fraught dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the issue of water rights emerges as an unlikely but critical point of contention. The struggle is real, palpable, and woven into the everyday lives of people in ways more tangible than lines on a map or divisions encased in political...

Some 160 Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar and were seeking to leave a camp in Bangladesh, have been adrift in the Andaman Sea for more than two weeks.

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling on Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine for the destruction caused by its war of aggression. But it is not binding. Can Russia be held liable?

An African foreign minister and United Nations diplomat living in New York City walked away from rape allegations scot-free over the weekend after police had...

The United Nations' highest court ruled Thursday that Colombia breached Nicaragua's rights in waters of the Caribbean Sea, including by hindering Nicaraguan ...

Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, a professor at Yale Law School, about the different mechanisms that could be used to bring members of the Russian military to justice, and how the U.S. may have undermined the prospects for accountability.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) ended his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday by asking Jackson why she accused former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of being "war criminals." "I don't know you well, but I've been impressed by our interaction, and you've been gracious and charming. Why in the world would you call Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld…

THE HAGUE, Dec 05 (IPS) - At The Hague, the United Nation's highest court heard Fiji, a small island nation, lay out its arguments on the threat posed by climate change and the legal obligations, especially those of developed nations.

The ICC can exercise jurisdiction over Israeli and Russian nationals on the same basis that the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals exercised jurisdiction over German and Japanese nationals.