In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread sexual ...

In 2003 Slovakia established a Special Court, subsequently renamed the Special Criminal Court (SCC), principally for corruption and organised crime cases. ...

The quest for justice and reconciliation: The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and the Et

The yearbook is an on-going project between a number of research institutes, mostly in Europe. The edition is the 12th in the series. It contains artiles ...

This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition of rape that ...

The Philippines' Sandiganbayan is the oldest specialised anti-corruption court in the world. Though established mainly to resolve corruption cases more ...

The Uganda High Court has an Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) with original jurisdiction over all corruption and related cases. The main rationale for its ...

This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, ...

The Indonesian Court for Corruption Crimes, or Tipikor court, has handled corruption cases for more than a decade. Initially there was only one Tipikor ...

Senior Researcher Gunnar M. Sørbø (CMI) and Professor of law Terje Einarsen (UiB) in conversation with Åse Gilje Østensen.

This article explores the conditions that led to the referral of the crisis in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the arrest warrant ...

Frustration with the capacity of the ordinary machinery of justice to deal adequately with corruption has prompted many countries to develop specialised ...

Amerikanske og britiske jurister vil sørge for at Bush og Blair blir stilt til ansvar for eventuelle forbrytelser i Irak. Bakom lurer den internasjonale ...

En lov som åpner for invasjon av Nederland, er foreløpig siste tiltak i USAs kampanje mot Den internasjonale straffedomstolen.

Omverdenen taler med to tunger overfor Sudan, og gjør dermed valgseier mulig for landets ettersøkte president.

Under Sudan’s Criminal Act (1991), rape is defined as zina (adultery and fornication) without consent. This means that the strict rules of evidence ...

Although transitional justice (TJ) has been an area of significant donor engagement for more than a decade, little is known about the scope, trends, and ...

Violence against women has emerged as arguably the single most important focus for both gender programming and women’s rights activism in Afghanistan ...

Samtidig med rettssaken mot Moland og French pågår det en annen rettssak fra Kongo i Haag, Nederland.

Law is increasingly center stage for political battles. Across the globe, people are going to court to claim their right to health or education, to fight for their right to engage in sex work or same-sex relationships - while others mobilize courts and legislatures to criminalize prostitution or homosexual practice.