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War crimes

August 2024

  • Cathie Morant, a distant cousin of Harry “Breaker” Morant, at the Boer War memorial in Canberra.

    ‘Breaker’ Morant killed 12 prisoners during the Boer war. So why do supporters say he should be memorialised in Adelaide?

    Adelaide council has rejected a push to get Morant, who was executed for war crimes, on a memorial – but there are plans to seek a posthumous pardon
  • A memorial marks the location of a mass burial site of those massacred in 2004 by the LRA at the Barlonyo displaced persons camp in northern Uganda.

    Ex-LRA commander convicted of crimes against humanity in landmark Ugandan trial

    Court to sentence Thomas Kwoyelo for 44 offences committed during militia’s 20-year rebellion and reign of terror
  • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

    Rights and freedom
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

    After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka thought she could make a difference in parliament. A new documentary tells of her disillusion with the healing process, and why she is passionate about seeking justice for the violated women without a voice

July 2024

  • A crowd of people on a pro-Palestine march stand behind barriers and hold flags and banners

    Rights and freedom
    Labour must drop challenge over Netanyahu arrest warrant, says human rights chief

  • Relatives carry the bodies of children from the Abu Quta family killed by Israeli strikes on Rafah, during their funeral.

    US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    Rights and freedom
    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • A young woman in a colourful headscarf with her face hidden

    ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

  • I call on Keir Starmer to suspend arms sales to Israel and end Britain’s complicity in the killing

    Zarah Sultana

  • Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

    Gordon Brown

June 2024

  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and defence minister Yoav Gallant (right) at a press conference with Israeli flags behind them

    ICC decision on Netanyahu arrest warrant may be delayed by UK

  • Sergei Shoigu, right, gestures while talking to Valery Gerasimov. Both men are dressed in military uniforms.

    ICC issues arrest warrants for Russian officials over alleged Ukraine war crimes

  • The Investigator

    The Investigator review – harrowing documentary details search for justice after Balkan wars

  • Huts burning with the sky filled with smoke

    UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia

  • There’s a shocking absence in this election: politicians won’t mention the Israel-Gaza war

    Owen Jones

  • The normalisation of dehumanisation in the Israel-Palestine conflict

  • Russia accused of ‘deliberate’ starvation tactics in Mariupol in submission to ICC

May 2024

  • Composite design image of Benjamin Netanyahu and Karim Khan surrounded by CCTV cameras

    Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

  • Simon Tisdall

    Call to prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes exposes the west’s moral doublethink

    Simon Tisdall
  • Husam Mahjoub

    It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out

    Husam Mahjoub
  • A medic almost off-camera gestures at a child's soft toy lying on a hospital bed amid rubble and wreckage from an airstrike

    Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report

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