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Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, center, and Erin Barclay attend a briefing on the 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, March 20, 2023.

The US is helping the ICC investigate war crimes in Sudan, diplomat says

Conflict & Justice

Roughly 10 million people have been displaced and about 15,000 civilians have been killed due to fighting between two rival generals in Sudan. The ICC has been investigating current ongoing atrocities using a UN Security Council resolution from 2005. The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Beth Van Schaack, the US ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, about the situation.

A man is shown wearing a red sweatshirt and holding up a piece of white paper to block his face.

Conviction in landmark case over Syrian government torture

Justice
A group of four soldiers are shown walking across a field wearing full battlefield fatigues and carrying weapons.

Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed Afghans — report

Military
A general view of the Grand al-Nuri mosque during its reconstruction, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 23, 2020.

Documenting ISIS’ crimes is daunting. Coronavirus makes it even harder.

Conflict & Justice
A woman stands at a memorial.

25 years after Srebrenica massacre, int’l crimes are still difficult to prosecute

Justice
National Security Adviser John Bolton is shown at a microphone with the US flag behind him, speaking at a forum in Washington, DC, 2018.

International court says it is undeterred after Bolton threatens US sanctions

The Trump administration is threatening tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

Three people walk past a stone house bombed out by an air strike in the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen, August 8, 2018.

The UN says some Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes

Conflict

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said on Tuesday.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein discusses the Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's anti-terrorism tactics on December 9, 2014.

Here are four key findings from the gruesome Senate report on torture

Conflict

The conclusions reached by the Senate Intelligence Committee in a new report on so-called harsh interrogation techniques are a damning critique of the Central Intelligence Agency. Not only did the agency torture people, but it did so while lying about it and getting no value from the information it gathered.

The World

Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Secret Vacuum Cleaner Design

Conflict & Justice

This week we learned something we didn’t know about Khalid Sheik Mohammed. When he was first held a decade ago in secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, his handlers allowed him to design a vacuum cleaner.

Do The Positions of Obama’s FBI Nominee Deserve More Scrutiny?

The legality of waterboarding, the role of state-sponsored surveillance and the importance of whistle-blowers–those were just a few of the major questions thrown at James Comey before a Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey is President Obama’s pick to lead the FBI. From 2003 to 2005, Comey served as deputy attorney general under President Bush, and while […]