International law

The final declaration of the international conference "25 Years since the Collapse of Communist Dictatorships in Eastern Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward", attended by former heads of state in Central and Eastern Europe, proposes to the new European Parliament and the new European Commission that the problem of the memory of communism victims be taken into account "including

An inter-governmental protocol on investigating and documenting sexual violence in conflicts was promoted in Sarajevo on Wednesday with a message that it is vital to ensure there is no climate of impunity over such crimes.

A Chechen man wanted in Russia for the alleged murder of five policemen should be extradited from Greece, a court in the northern Aegean ruled on Friday. Amaev Khavazi, 34, was arrested on September 5 while trying to enter Greece illegally. Authorities only realized his identity after taking his fingerprints.

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"No political will in Serbia to address impunity"

BELGRADE -- Lack of political will in Serbia makes it impossible to address impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1990s wars, AI said.

BELGRADE - President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Peter Tomka has announced at a General Assembly of the United Nations meeting that a judgment in a dispute before the ICJ comprising a Croatian claim against Serbia and a Serbian counterclaim of genocide will be reached before the Court is renewed in February.

Hague Tribunal prosecutors have been granted permission to present new forensic evidence found at Tomasica, Bosnia’s biggest mass grave, in the war crimes case against Ratko Mladic.

The Bosnian prosecution has indicted 63 people for war crimes this year – a record number compared to previous years – but the increase is stretching the system’s ability to cope.

Three former Bosnian military security officials pleaded not guilty to war crimes against civilians, some of whom were allegedly tortured, in the Srebrenik municipality in 1992.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will completely shut down in 2017 after delivering its last war crimes ruling, said the court’s president Theodor Meron.