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April 1, 2014 News

Accountability for Atrocities Committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Supporting the Government’s Proposal to Establish Specialized Mixed Chambers and other related Judicial Reforms

The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) has been the theatre of grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law over the past two decades. The International Criminal Court(ICC) opened an investigation in Congo in 2004 and has brought…

January 12, 2012 News

Obama Sends Military Support to Help Combat LRA Rebels

In October, 2011, the Obama administration said it would send 100 US military advisers to central Africa to help the region’s armies combat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a vicious Ugandan rebel group. Human Rights Watch has pressed the US government…

December 31, 2002 News

Belgian Senate Committee Passes International Justice Proposals

On January 22, the Justice Committee of the Belgian Senate passed two important proposals. The first aims at restoring the 1993 universal jurisdiction law to its original scope, while the second aims to adapt the same law to the new International Criminal…

December 31, 2001 News

Congo to Ratify ICC

In early December, Human Rights Watch Counsel Pascal Kambale organized a Government-NGO conference on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

November 30, 2001 News

Justice in Colombia

In July 1997, paramilitaries working with the Colombian Army killed more than thirty residents of Mapirip醤, Meta. Army general Jaime Usc醫egui was implicated in the massacre and sentenced by a military tribunal to serve only forty months in prison. In a…

July 31, 2001 News

Take Action Now: Crisis in Colombia

On July 10, Human Rights Watch issued a public letter to Manuel Marulanda, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (known as the FARC), Colombia's main rebel group. Based on a HRW mission to territory in Colombia…

March 31, 2001 News

Colombian Military Officer Prosecuted for Atrocities

A Colombian Army officer whose links with abusive paramilitary groups was a focus of our February 2000 report, "The Ties That Bind: Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links," is now being prosecuted by civilian courts, in part due to the high profile…

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