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Via the Indian Express. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who accuses the West of monopolising power in world bodies, proposed on Tuesday setting up an international Islamic court to try war criminals and other human rights violators.
The city museum of The Hague has decided not to include in an exhibition a work of art that may offend Muslims, it was reported on Monday.
In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic's forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing.
Families of genocide victims from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica have cleared a legal hurdle in their lawsuit against the Netherlands and the United Nations, which allowed the genocidal Serbian aggressor to mass murder thousands of Bosnian civilians, their lawyers said.
A trail of blood leads from the genocide in Darfur back to the highest levels of government in Khartoum. So Sudan's announcement earlier this month that it would form its own committee to investigate human rights violations in Darfur never inspired tremendous hope.
Sudan has launched the second phase of a campaign against the people of Darfur, spearheaded by a wanted war crimes suspect, says the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor.
Elephants and the ivory trade come under the spotlight as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) summit opens. Just prior to the opening, a committee voted that a limited sale of stockpiled ivory from southern Africa to Japan could go ahead.
The former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is due to go on trial for war crimes in The Hague on Monday. He has been accused of supporting rebels in Sierra Leone, who conducted an 11-year campaign in which thousands of civilians were killed or maimed.
The Council of Europe is a body quite separate from the European Union. Proposed by Winston Churchill, it was founded in 1949 for "the pursuit of peace based upon justice"(1). It drew up the human rights convention and runs the European Court of Human Rights.
Princess Ariane of Holland, the three-week-old daughter of Crown Prince Willem Alexander and Princess Maxima, has been admitted to hospital.
In the spring of 2003, during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, hundreds of documents arrived at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague marked "Defense. State Secret. Strictly Confidential."
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From the page: -- Charles Taylor, the war crimes suspect and former president of Liberia, used his court appearance yesterday to complain about "draconian" conditions and unappetising European food in the Netherlands prison in which he is being held. --
Marco Pastors is a dutch politician who is regarded as the successor of murder politician Pim Fortuyn. He will participate in the coming Dutch elections on november 22th, but has yet to launch his own party.
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-- The United States is seeking to move the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands for security reasons.
In March 2002, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.
The death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell at the Hague on Saturday has unleashed a torrent of historical distortions and outright lies that echo the propaganda campaign waged more than seven years ago to justify the US-NATO war against the country.
Upon learning of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in prison in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 12, the International Action Center in the United States joined organizations and individuals around the world in condemning the court, prison authorities and t
Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said that his client had feared that he might be poisoned, comments that will fuel speculation in Serbia and Montenegro about the death of the country's former president.
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