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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda began operating from its seat in Arusha, Tanzania in 1995, in the near-immediate aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in which hundreds of thousands of Rwandans lost their lives when the government incited the country’s majority ethnic group to attack the minority group. The ICTR, which was established pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 955 of November

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which had its seat in the Hague, Netherlands, was established in 1993, pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 827 of May 25, 1993, while the conflict in the former Yugoslavia was still ongoing. Its purpose was to establish individual criminal liability for atrocities committed  in the course of the Yugoslav Wars, from

The term “universal jurisdiction” refers to the idea that a national court may prosecute individuals for serious crimes against international law — such as crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, and torture — based on the principle that such crimes harm the international community or international order itself, which individual States may act to protect. Generally, universal jurisdiction is invoked when

This section covers criminal prosecutions carried out in domestic courts of crimes committed in the national territory, as well as civil suits heard in domestic courts regarding events that occurred in the country or abroad. Also, for a user-friendly introduction to significant domestic precedents with regard to implementation of international humanitarian law, see the International Committee of the Red Cross’

Download our guide to Researching International Human Rights Law for a full overview of the available international human rights law databases and websites, for accessing treaty texts, judgments, decisions, resolutions, and other interpretations. The links below identify just a few of these tools. Use the International Justice Resource Center’s custom Google search form to search the websites of the African, European,

Human rights cases may be resolved at the domestic level in a number of ways, including through direct application of international standards (because they have been ratified and codified domestically, or are jus cogens norms or other customary international law); through the direct application of analogous but independent provisions found in domestic law (such as national constitutions or U.S. civil