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According to international law, countries are allowed to defend themselves from attack. But which weapons they can use and which targets they can strike are the subject of much debate.

According to international law, countries are allowed to defend themselves from attack. But which weapons they can use and which targets they can strike are the subject of much debate.

TheInternational Criminal Court (ICC) is looking at the links between the Wagner private military company (PMC) and the Russian leadership, potentially leading to a new arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in connection with the crimescommitted by the “Wagnerites” in Ukraine, said David Scheffer, the former U.S. State Department Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, Voice of America reported on Aug. 3.

According to international law, countries are allowed to defend themselves from attack. But which weapons they can use and which targets they can strike are the subject of much debate.

Joint Symposium on U.S. Cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation.

As the invasion of Ukraine moves into its second year, Global Insight assesses how Putin’s blatant violation of international norms is refocusing global attention on ways of achieving justice and accountability for the worst crimes.

Despite practical impediments, legal challenges to the Putin and Lvova-Belova arrest warrants should not, and likely will not, succeed.

This report documents torture, killings, rapes, forced expulsions, and other war crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. The report reveals a coordinated and systematic campaign to terrorize, kill, and expel the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo that was organized by the highest levels of the Serbian and Yugoslav governments in power at that time.

Panelists discuss the history and legacy of the Helsinki Accords, the 1975 agreement that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and human rights concerns today.

The ICC alleges Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova are responsible for the unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.