A Ugandan warlord must be acquitted of war crimes because he himself was a brutalised former child victim of the Lord’s Resistance Army, defence lawyers told the International Criminal Court on ...

Dominic Ongwen was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army militia as a child, and later rose to be one of its commanders. He was once a victim of some of the same crimes he was accused of later in ...

Every morning, Joseph gets on his motorbike to tend to his field of manioc, in the thick bush surrounding the Obo, in southeastern Central African Republic. This day, though, is not ordinary. Joseph ...

The formal request by Niger’s military government to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) this month should prompt sober reflection — what happens to victims of atrocities in Niger, ...

DUNGU, Democratic Republic of the Congo, September 18 (UNHCR) - Monique's* voice is loud and clear, ringing out from a small lively choir of young people outside a church in the remote town of Dungu ...