Barbara Slavin talks to Stephen Rapp, former US ambassador-at-large and chief of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice about how peace in Syria will not
Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2235 establishing a Joint Investigative Mechanism to look into the use of chemical weapons, including chlorine gas, during the Syrian
Over the past several months, the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre’s (SJAC) Documentation Team in Turkey has worked to document detention centers run by the Islamic State of Iraq
Pieter Hotse Smit reports on new evidence provided by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that Kurdish armed groups used child soldiers in their fight last year against the Islamic State of
As the conflict in Syria worsens, reports have emerged indicating that sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) is being used as a tool of war. However, reliable information on SGBV
Report on Counter-Terrorism Courts in Syria by VDC [http://www.vdc-sy.info/pdf/reports/1430186775-English.pdf] The Violations Documentation Center (VDC), a Syrian human rights documentation organization, recently published a
On June 26, people from around the world commemorated the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Three years ago, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon recognized this
On June 19, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) took control of Tal Abyad and drove out the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The fighting caused about
Last week, in defiance of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant and an order by the South African High Court barring his exit, Omar al-Bashir boarded a plane back