President Obama's first big meeting with BP executives at the White House reaffirms that BP would be held liable for the Gulf oil spill until communities are whole again. BP is a strong and viable company, and it is in all of our interests that it re...
A United Nations court has sentenced a former interior minister of Rwanda to a 30-year prison term for his role in that country's 1994 genocide. Callixte Kalimanzira was convicted on charges of genocide and incitement to commit genocide. The trial c...
The United Nations war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia has acquitted a former Serbian president of atrocities committed in Kosovo but jailed five others on Thursday. It was the court's first ruling on Serbian crimes committed during the Kosov...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 27 March 2008 The U.N. secretary-general says a special tribunal to try suspects in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has entered the startup period and will begin functioning in phases, but...
By Kate Woodsome Phnom Penh 03 December 2007 A United Nations-backed tribunal formed to hear charges against Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge leaders has denied bail to the first defendant it has seen. As VOA's Kate Woodsome reports from Phnom Penh, the...
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 07 November 2007 The trial of Serb-Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj has opened at the U.N. war crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He faces nine charges related to his use of hate speech and recruiting paramilitary groups, wh...
By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 21 June 2007 The first international trial of an African leader is set to reconvene June 25th, despite a faltering start after the defendant, former Liberian President Charles Taylor, refused to show up in court. Undeter...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 29 May 2007 The U.N. Security Council is to vote Wednesday to create an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. VOA's Peter Heinlein at U.N. headquar...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 September 2006 The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Thursday called on the Kenyan government to help find one of the leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide. He is reported to have business interest...
