• Egypt: Q&A on the Trial of Hosni Mubarak
    May 28, 2012
    Hosni Mubarak, his former minister of interior Habib al-Adly, and four assistant ministers of interior, were tried in connection with the killing of hundreds of peaceful anti-government demonstrators from January 25 to 31, 2011. The Q&A includes background on the Mubarak trial, the charges brought, applicable criminal laws and trial procedures, information about related trials, and the trial’s broader political context.
  • Charles Taylor: Q&A on The Case of Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
    April 16, 2012
    The Special Court indicted Taylor on March 7, 2003 on 17 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international law for his role in supporting Sierra Leonean rebel groups during that country’s armed conflict. The Taylor judgment will be a watershed moment for efforts to hold the highest-level leaders to account through a credible judicial process.
  • Habré Case: Q&A on “Belgium v. Senegal”
    March 29, 2012

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard arguments from March 12 to 21, 2012 in “Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal)” over the fate of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré.

     

  • Q&A on Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army
    March 21, 2012
    Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group that originated in 1987 in northern Uganda among ethnic Acholi communities.
  • DR Congo: Q&A on the First Verdict at the International Criminal Court
    February 29, 2012

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue its first verdict on March 14, 2012, in the case of Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Dyilo was the first person arrested and transferred to The Hague to be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has been charged with the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under age 15 as soldiers and using them as active participants in hostilities in 2002-2003.

  • Questions and Answers on the Olympics, Women and Sports in Saudi Arabia
    February 15, 2012
  • Libya: Q&A on the ICC and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
    January 23, 2012
  • Q & A: US Targeted Killings and International Law
    December 19, 2011
    This Q&A focuses on legal and policy issues related to targeted killings, primarily attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles, known as drones, conducted by the US Armed Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • Russian National Elections in 2011 and 2012
    November 21, 2011
    On December 4, Russians will go to the polls to elect a new Duma, the lower house of parliament, and in March 2012 they will elect a new president.
  • Q&A on Incendiary Weapons and CCW Protocol III
    November 11, 2011

    Despite the regulations in Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), incendiary weapons continue to cause needless and unacceptable suffering to civilians in conflicts around the world. These weapons produce conscience-shocking injuries to humans and are frequently indiscriminate. Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic call on states to revisit Protocol III.