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AP is reporting that President Bush has picked Under Secretary of State John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations , according to a government official "knowledgeable about the...

The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that it will hold a hearing to discuss what action the Prosecutor's Office will be taking in light of its investigation of the abuses committed in the Democratic Republic of the...

In Thursday's international law brief, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour presented the findings of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Conflict in Darfur to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, stating...

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that the European Union should recognize that the US will never accept the International Criminal Court and should seek a practical solution to the problem....

A European Union spokesperson said Wednesday that the EU supports the UN proposal to try those suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur at the International Criminal...

Continuing a story first reported yesterday on JURIST's Paper Chase, a UN report on whether genocide has been committed in Sudan has accused the Sudanese government and its militia allies of killing, torturing and raping civilians in...

In Thursday's international brief, senior African Union officials are reporting that the Sudanese government bombed a Darfur village Wednesday, with NGO workers present for the first time to actually witness the explosions. The announcement came...

Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law:"I am very reluctantly coming to believe that there's about a 50% chance that a senior administration official will face a war crime trial either for ordering or condoning torture, or for the...

Human rights group Amnesty International Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Sudan to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The group argued that the UN must allow the ICC...

John Bolton (official biography here), the US Under-Secretary of State who led the US campaign against the establishment of the International Criminal Court (see a representative speech by Bolton here) and later helped negotiate a series of controversial bilateral...