A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.

Despite Trump sanctions, ICC staff and advocates vow to fight on, writes @mollyquell.bsky.social apnews.com/article/icc-...

As U.S. President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure on the International Criminal Court, staff responsible for investigating the world’s worst crimes are finding ways to work around U.S. sanctions of the kind more usually imposed on officials from autocratic regimes.

Former U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin testified Monday as the first defense witness for Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, who is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his country’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.

Judges at the United Nations’ top court sided with France on Friday in a long-running legal tug-of-war with Equatorial Guinea over the sale of a mansion on one of Paris’ poshest avenues.

The Dutch will not participate in Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete.

One swelteringly hot day this summer I saw the “no swim” advice and I got desperate.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court began presenting evidence Tuesday to support their charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first ever in absentia hearing, alleging that he inflicted horrors on Ugandan society that still echo two decades later.

The International Criminal Court announced on Monday it was postponing a pretrial hearing for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over concerns about his health.

Confirmation of charges hearings for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte - scheduled for September 23 - have been postponed because there are questions if the 80-year-old is fit to stand trial.

Oh Vonnegut.

My August wrap

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Does anyone know how to join witness protection?

Thousands of redheads celebrate their strands at Dutch festival.

I will be updating my business cards.

The Israel-Hamas war has been one of the bloodiest conflicts for media workers, with at least 192 journalists killed in Gaza in the 22-month conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Comparatively, 18 journalists have been killed so far in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

I have agency and disposable income and what I choose to do with those is between me and god.

"US Customs has not provided clarity on how to process these packages."

It's not just the courts that can ruin my Friday evenings.

I crash out less often than the Dutch government.

I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness

The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors.

A flotilla of hundreds of historic ships was heading into Amsterdam on Wednesday, kicking off a five-day festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history.

Me, if I go to bed past 9PM.

Overheard in the Bloemenmarkt in Amsterdam: "Ya know, for a flower market, there aren't any flowers."

While Parisians have recently rediscovered the pleasure of swimming in the Seine, Amsterdammers have been enjoying a cooling dip in the Dutch capital’s Ij waterway for years.

"Alerting the world to the starvation of civilians, reporting on Israel’s military conduct in Gaza, even disseminating pro-Hamas propaganda, none of this would count as direct participation in hostilities,” Janina Dill, a professor of global security a the University of Oxford.

I realized as I was putting my July post together, I never posted my June reads. So buckle up for a double feature.

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday ordered chief prosecutor Karim Khan to recuse himself from an investigation into Venezuela, citing a conflict of interest.

Judges at the EU’s top court ruled Friday that Italy can fast-track deportations of migrants to countries designated as “safe,” but with limits.

The Netherlands will ban two far-right Israeli ministers from entering the country, in the latest European response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Gaza, the country’s foreign minister said.

I've started my advent calendar shopping.

Have you, I don't know, seen the current state of the world?

France’s highest court on Friday ruled that ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad had head of state immunity while he was in office and couldn't be prosecuted on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court reported Hungary to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest in April, saying the move undercut the court’s ability to bring suspects to justice.

International Criminal Court judges convicted two leaders of a predominantly Christian rebel group in the Central African Republic of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Thursday, sentencing each to more than a decade in prison.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change. Here are some of the key points from the opinion delivered Wednesday

The UN’s highest court is handing down a historic opinion on climate change Wednesday, a decision that could set a legal benchmark for action around the globe to the climate crisis.

"Being a hater means appropriately adjudicating the garbage in front of you," @scaachi.bsky.social

Belgian police questioned two members of the Israeli army who were attending a music festival in Belgium over allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

Every time I have taken a holiday this year, the ICC has arrested someone. Should I be taking this personally?

Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea accused France of “neo-colonial” behavior on Tuesday, urging United Nations judges to block the sale of a mansion on one of Paris’ poshest avenues in the latest instalment in a long-running legal tug-of-war over the multimillion-dollar property.

I have started packing for a week-long vacation and by "packing" I mean "I've started to pick which books to bring."

How am I supposed to know what other people suspect me of?

Europe’s top human rights court said Wednesday that Russia violated international law during the conflict in Ukraine and was behind the downing of Flight MH17.

ECHR is living in the future with a non-delayed live stream of the ruling:

Europe’s top human rights court is set to rule Wednesday on Russia’s actions in the conflict in Ukraine, including human rights violations during the full-scale invasion and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.