Press Release – 9 October 2026 Geneva – Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) unequivocally condemns the United States’ decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), targeting the institution as a whole. The sanctions announced minutes ago prohibit transactions with the Court and are explicitly intended to “cut off their resources and crippling its…
PRESS RELEASE – 8 October 2026 A coalition of seven human rights organisations has submitted an amicus curiae brief to Argentina’s Federal Court of Criminal Cassation, calling on the Court to reject the use of official immunity as a bar to investigating and prosecuting foreign State officials for alleged crimes against humanity. The brief was…
PRESS RELEASE – 9 October 2026 The Hague – One day before gender justice practitioners, survivors and advocates from across Asia, the Pacific and beyond gathered in the Hague for the Gender Justice in International Criminal Law Conference 2026, the International Criminal Court unsealed four arrest warrants in the Situation in Afghanistan. They are the…
Human Rights Council 63rd Session Interactive dialogue on High Commissioner oral update on Ukraine 2 October 2026 Mr.Vice-President, Anatolii Kornieiev was 80 years old when the Kakhovka Dam collapsed and flooded his town in Kherson, Ukraine. He lived alone. When his family managed to get through to him by phone, he shouted one word –…
Human Rights Council 63rd Session Adoption of the Universal Periodic Review – Somalia 24 September 2026 Mr. President, Somalia has taken important legislative steps to address violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence. The challenge now is implementation. Legal Action Worldwide has represented 80 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence before Somali…
For nine years, Rohingya survivors have carried a truth the world has been slow to confront: that the violence inflicted on them in 2016 and 2017 was the culmination of decades of exclusion, persecution, and organised destruction. In January 2026, when Rohingya witnesses gave evidence before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the merits…
Interactive Dialogue with Working Group on Arbitrary Detention 15 September 2026 Mr. President, Arrests and detentions of aid workers increased by more than 520 per cent between 2024 and 2025, with 280 aid workers detained last year, while an additional 350 aid workers were killed. Legal Action Worldwide’s work has further shown the consequences of…
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 63nd Session Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan 7th September 2026 Thank you, Mr. President. The Fact-Finding Mission’s report confirms what Sudanese survivors and civil society have been documenting for years, and what Legal Action Worldwide found in its March report on the siege of El Fasher: external arms…
Extensive Interactive Dialogue on reports of the High Commissioner and the IIMM 7 September 2026 Mr. President, Nine years after the genocide against the Rohingya, the International Court of Justice is approaching a historic judgment in The Gambia v. Myanmar case. The international community cannot afford to wait for the ruling before deciding how to respond. …
General Debate following High Commissioner update on Sri Lanka Monday 7 September Mr. President, Twenty years ago, on 4 August 2006, Action Against Hunger lost radio contact with their humanitarian team in Muttur, Sri Lanka: Two days later, the bodies of 17 aid workers were found, all faced downwards on the front lawn of their…