The cybercrime prosecutor’s office in Red Sea State, which is controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces, has charged at least 15 media professionals and two media outlets with defamation, invasion of privacy, and spreading false information. These charges follow their online reporting on alleged corruption within the public sector. These prosecutions, accompanied by arrest warrants,…
Author: Chris Anu
Is international law really dying? The question has become increasingly difficult to ignore. The ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, instability in West Asia, violence against civilians, and the inability of international institutions to respond effectively, have led many to conclude that international law is no longer relevant.
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The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 was seen as a breakthrough in the global fight against war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
On 16 July 2026 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice — fifteen judges, none of them Spanish — delivered, through its President Koen Lenaerts, two long-awaited judgments on Organic Law 1/2024 of 10 June, the amnesty statute Spain enacted for the “institutional, political and social normalisation” of Catalonia.
On 16 July, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) 28th anniversary, I wrote in these pages about the court’s deepest crisis yet — a crisis to which Europe’s own double standards, and its own governing bodies, contribute significantly.
This essay was written byElgene Lutshiti, Palesa Maloisane, and Thandeka Chauke, courtesy of The Global Movement Against Statelessness (GMAS), a content partner of Global Voices. This post is part of Global Voices’ July 2026 Spotlight series, “Statelessness.” This series offers insight into the issue of statelessness and how it hinders people’s freedom of movement, educational opportunities, political…
On 8 July 2026, Sadaka-The Ireland Palestine Alliance, and Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine, sent letters with an annexed position paper to Board Members of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). The letters and annex warned that the determination of the FAI, and its Board of Directors, to…
CommentaryBriMoPet / Pixabay Mob looting, forced documentation checks and roughly 160,000 displaced people are not a policing problem; they are a breach of the African Charter and the ICCPR.
Sotomayor denied a request by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to put on hold the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in those shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem…
