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Sexual and gender-based violence has been pervasive in Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest regions since separatist fighters launched their armed rebellion against government forces six years ago, demanding…

The trials have started early 2023 in the Netherlands and Italy of two Eritrean men arrested last fall and charged with crimes linked to human trafficking in Libya. They are the result of strong cooperation between states on crimes that the International Criminal Court committed itself to prosecute more than six years ago, but has not done.

A UN Fact-Finding Mission recently published its third report unveiling more evidence of “crimes against humanity, war crimes, and gross human rights violations” in Libya, including against migrants. National authorities are supposed to be investigating, but there’s little evidence that they have done much. The International Criminal Court has been seized of the Libyan situation since 2011, but has so far been largely ineffectual.

According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, 15,000 alleged war crimes have been reported since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three months ago. Hundreds more are being...

Prosecuting its own alleged war crimes can help Ukraine undercut Putin’s propaganda war.

Reports of mass rape by Russian forces in Ukraine have led to mass reporting of this war crime, helping to lift many rape survivors.