For more than a decade, many perpetrators of human rights abuses and international crimes in Libya behaved as though accountability simply did not apply to them. In a country fractured
International Women’s Day is often filled with celebration. Flowers. Panels. Campaigns. Words like empowerment and leadership. And those things matter. But today, I want to sit with something quieter and
Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating an armed aggression ongoing since 2014. On this grim anniversary, Ukrainian artist and activist Anna Moskalets shares
On 3 February, Libyan presidential candidate Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was shot dead by a team of four masked gunmen in Zintan. His killing cannot be read as an isolated security
In Portcullis House on Tuesday, former Secretary of State for Defence Rt Hon Sir Ben Wallace told the Defence Committee that ‘there is always a danger with that organisation that
On the twentieth anniversary of the Haditha massacre, justice for the victims is still out of reach. The way wars are fought may be changing, but the evasion of accountability
While the possibility of peace negotiations remains uncertain, Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine continues, with Ukrainian civilians coming under renewed attack. Civilians harmed by the conflict have a right to prompt and adequate reparations.
Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has torn the country apart. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), backed by foreign powers and supported by their respective allied militias, have devastated towns and cities with impunity, waging war on civilians and plunging the country into the world’s worst civilian protection and humanitarian crisis.
In May 2025, nearly six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, US President Donald Trump met the new Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The first high-level
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