On February 3, 2026, the Republic of Botswana deposited its instrument of accession to the 1907 Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Convention’s depository.
Botswana will become a contracting party of the Permanent...
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On January 26, 2026, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a public redacted decision finding that former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is fit to participate in pre-trial proceedings in the Situation in the Republic of the...
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On December 18, 2025, the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons. The resolution strongly condemned human trafficking, particularly of women and children. The...
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On January 30, 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) announced the commencement of an arbitration between the Republic of Rwanda and the United Kingdom under the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Rwanda and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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On January 20, 2025, the President of the United States issued an Executive Order announcing the United States’ intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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On January 17, 2026, the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (“BBNJ Agreement”) entered into force, becoming legally binding for the states that have ratified it.
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On December 6, 2025, Australia imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on senior officials of Afghanistan’s Taliban government in response to the country’s declining human rights situation that has targeted women, girls, and minority groups. The sanctions include travel...
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The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has introduced a new Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage Through the Rome Statute, in December 2025. Under this Policy, the ICC can investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression when these crimes cause or result in serious harm to...
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On December 18, 2025 UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) published a report documenting killings, sexual violence, torture, and abductions of civilians during a three-day assault on the Zamzam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in North Darfur, Sudan. The attack...
On December 2, 2025, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted a decision under its Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure concerning the Chagos Archipelago and the rights of the Chagossian people. CERD recalled the forced eviction and displacement of the Chagossian population from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1960s for the establishment of a military base on Diego Garcia.
The decision addresses the bilateral agreement signed on May 22, 2025 between the...