The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

As it stands, the court only has jurisdiction to prosecute the crime of aggression against countries that recognize its ...

A misleading post is being shared on the internet to falsely claim that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has declared ...

Latest on U.N. court order in Israel-Hamas war The International Court of Justice, the United Nations' top judicial body, has ordered Israel to pause all operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

International law knows of no graver crime than genocide. The 1948 convention, which Israel was among the first nations to join, defines genocide as the perpetration of any of several heinous ...

In a landmark climate decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that the right to a healthy climate is an ...

July 11, 2025, marks the 3oth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. The Srebrenica genocide refers ...

On September 25, 2024, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced that they had formally taken steps to call on Afghanistan to ...

The International Court of Justice in The Hague today made an initial ruling, four weeks after an application from South Africa that accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians.

FILE - A lone demonstrator waves the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024. (AP ...

The International Court of Justice is international, to be sure, but it is neither behaving like a court nor dispensing justice. Rather, the ICJ is allowing itself to be used as a geopolitical ...