The UN's top court is set to issue a landmark opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based at The Hague in the Netherlands, has been examining the issue (...)
Judges at the top United Nations court have called on Israel to halt its intended military offensive in the city of Rafah in a session in the Hague on Friday.
The International Court of Justice President Nawaf Salam, who led the court's hearing, (...)
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war (...)
Israel has accused South Africa of distorting reality in its attempt to get the UN's top court to force it to stop its military campaign in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began two days of hearings on (...)
The International Court of Justice has ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop Germany's arms sales to Israel.
Nicaragua brought the case, arguing that Germany had breached the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to (...)
Germany has said Israel's security is at the "core" of its foreign policy, as it defends a genocide case brought against it at the UN's highest court.
Nicaragua had accused it of breaching the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to (...)
Nicaragua has asked the UN's highest court to halt German weapons sales to Israel at the start of a landmark case.
Germany is accused of breaching the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to Israel and ceasing funding of the UN's aid (...)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.
The world court issued the new order in response to a recent (...)
The UN's top court has unanimously ordered Israel to enable the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza in order to avert a famine.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel must act "without delay" to allow the "provision... of urgently needed (...)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian commanders over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, an army lieutenant general and a navy admiral, are the two men named by the (...)
The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), is hearing the final arguments in a case challenging Israel's 56-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
The question at the heart of this week's hearings is: What are the legal (...)
The International Court of Justice began hearing historic oral arguments Monday over the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, thrusting the decades-old debate before a panel of international judges as the region remains locked in an (...)
The UN's top court ordered Israel to "take all measures" to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for Israel to suspend its military campaign in the war-torn enclave.
In a hearing in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Friday, the (...)
Namibia has condemned former colonial ruler Germany for rejecting a case at a UN court accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
Germany has offered to intervene on Israel's behalf in the case brought by South Africa at the International Court (...)
Israel's plan to "destroy" Gaza comes from "the highest level of state", the UN's top court has heard.
The claims were made by South African lawyers as it presented its case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
South (...)
The UN's International Court of Justice is hearing a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The submission also calls on the court to order Israel to stop military operations there.
The ICJ (...)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday said it will hold public hearings next week regarding proceedings brought by South Africa against Israel over allegations of genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
The hearings will be (...)
A major Dutch political party has said it will not enter talks with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders about forming a coalition cabinet for now.
The New Social Contract party said Wilders's election manifesto risked breaching the Dutch (...)
Environmental groups have expressed shock and promised climate action in response to Dutch election results. Wednesday night saw the historic victory of the far right Party for Freedom (PVV).
The party led by Geert Wilders is projected to win 37 (...)
Veteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election, according to the latest results with almost all votes counted.
After 25 years in parliament, his Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, (...)
Four parties have emerged as front-runners as Dutch voters decide on Wednesday who will lead their country into a new political era.
Voting starts at 07:30 (06:30GMT), and the polls suggest a neck-and-neck race.
Center-right leader Dilan Yesilgöz is (...)
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor told CNN Friday that efforts to bring justice for the Rohingya must be accelerated and the world cannot look away from the ongoing crisis.
Chief prosecutor Karim Khan visited Cox's Bazar, (...)
When Juanita Marín turned 18, she decided she wanted to study economics outside her native Colombia and had her eyes set on Europe.
She had spent a summer in Germany and wanted to go back, but when she had a look at their university degrees in (...)
An 88-year-old man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a UN court has ruled.
Félicien Kabuga's lawyers had argued that he suffered from dementia.
He was arrested in Paris in 2020 after evading (...)
The President of the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) Hala Bint Mazyad Al-Tuwaijri discussed joint cooperation and coordination between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands during an official visit with an accompanying delegation.
She (...)
