Sudan’s peace process should account for interests of multiple parties
21/7/2026: Most peace initiatives approach Sudan as a two-sided conflict between a national army and a paramilitary rebellion. This approach overlooks that both camps contain armed movements, tribal formations and local commanders with their own expectations of the postwar order.
Source: African Arguments
Support the ICC as a vital Court of last resort
17/7/2026: Marking International Justice Day dozens of US civil society organisations have expressed their alarm at the US administration’s campaign to “dismantle” and “systematically disable” the International Criminal Court - which prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The US played a defining role in the early development of international criminal justice.
Source: Human Rights Watch
ICC greenlights first Libyan case to move to trial
16/7/2026: The International Criminal Court has confirmed its intention to take forward war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against the Libyan suspect Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri. Applauding this milestone for justice in Libya, Human Rights Watch calls on Libyan authorities to surrender remaining suspects to the Court.
Source: Human Rights Watch
European Parliament resolution on Sudan should spark action
10/7/2026: The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that calls for action to end the war in Sudan, for the first time naming the UAE as an active participant. Human Rights Watch cites evidence that the UAE is assisting or otherwise substantially contributing to the RSF’s capacity to commit war crimes.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Framework agreement betrays victims of war crimes in Lebanon
3/7/2026: Human rights campaign groups have expressed concern that the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement signed in Washington on June 26 threatens to betray war crimes victims in Lebanon. Parts of the text appear to be aimed at preventing victims of serious international crimes from seeking justice. Others seem to acquiesce to forced displacement of tens of thousands of residents of southern Lebanon occupied by Israeli forces.
Source: Amnesty International
Sahel countries’ withdrawal from ICC betrays victims
2/7/2026: Niger on June 18 and Burkina Faso and Mali on June 24 notified the UN secretary-general of their respective decisions to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. All three governments face international condemnation for atrocities committed by their security forces.
Source: Human Rights Watch
UK funding for nuclear weapons make for more dangerous world
1/7/2026: The majority of the funding of the Defence Investment Plan announced by the UK Prime Minister is dedicated to nuclear weapons. Surveys show that the security priorities of most British people centre on access to healthcare, the affordability of housing, transport, food and energy, and reducing the risk of street crime. A nuclear missile does nothing to provide any of these.
Source: Campaign Against Arms Trade
Why Sudan’s war cannot be understood through SAF and RSF alone
26/6/2026: Much of the international response to the conflict in Sudan continues to assume that meaningful political change depends on an agreement between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Yet significant aspects of governance are already taking place through other actors and structures who are largely absent from prevailing visions of political settlement.
Source: African Arguments
UN envoy reports on peace process in eastern DR Congo
26/6/2026: The new head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has warned that the security situation in the east remains highly unstable and called for the swift deployment of the mechanism for monitoring and verifying ceasefire commitments under the Doha process. It is nearly a year since the DRC and Rwanda signed a peace agreement in Washington, DC.
Source: UN News
Peace fails if it is not defended and resourced
2/6/2026: Investing in peace is both a moral imperative and a strategic necessity. The cost of prevention and stabilisation is always far lower than the cost of conflict, displacement and instability.
Source: The Guardian