It is with real sadness that we share the news that our colleague and friend Najlaa Ahmed, Legal Adviser at Rights for Peace, passed away on Monday, 3 November 2025. Najlaa was a unique human rights lawyer. She dedicated her career to advancing protection for victims of serious human rights violations in Sudan and South Sudan, and to pursuing accountability as well as the prevention of crimes based on discrimination. Her expertise spanned documentation of conflict-related sexual violence,...

Permanent Premises of the International Criminal Court (c) UN Photo/Rick Bajornas New reports in the Financial Times, Reuters and elsewhere indicate that we are about to see another wave of US sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) or its personnel. Days after he was in Office for his second term, on 6 February 2025, US President Trump issued Executive Order 14203, authorising sanctions on the ICC. The language used designates: "foreign persons engaged in certain malign...

Mapping of crime locations in the Ali Kusheyb case. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, was a senior commander of...