The passage of 9/11 Victims Compensation legislation through the US Congress risks the stability of the international legal order, experts have warned. Passing the Senate easily in May, Congress overrode President Obama’s veto to pass the Bill on September 29. The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) allows families
Russia and the United States agreed to a short-lived partial ceasefire in Syria on September 12: the most recent attempt at multilateral agreement in the beleaguered nation. The agreement – brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov – was designed primarily to allow the
The case of The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was one of firsts for the International Criminal Court (ICC)– the first case which focused solely on cultural destruction as a war crime, the first prosecution of an Islamic militant and the first time a war crimes defendant has pleaded
Two years on, interim findings of the MH17 investigation were finally presented at a press conference by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the Netherlands on Wednesday morning. The group, led by Wilbert Paulissen–head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Police–is made up of nearly 200
Saturday, October 1, 2016 was celebrated as the 56th birthday of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and like in previous anniversary celebrations, President Muhammadu Buhari used the occasion to make some public statements. These were impregnated with achievements made so far since he came to power in 2015, as well
Despite the hurdles, the times of despair and hopelessness and just when it seems like everything has gone to smithereens, the world has beaten the odds time and time again and proven its resilience. From post-World War II reconstruction in countries like Germany to the most recent signing of a
