The International Court of Justice, the world's highest court, held hearings in mid-December 2024 on the legal obligations ...

"By legally intervening in South Africa’s case, Ireland will be asking the ICJ to broaden its interpretation of what ...

Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin is asking the U.N. court to broaden the interpretation of "genocide" to include the war against Hamas.

The case of two men facing dozens of counts of murder, torture and the destruction of religious sites opened three years ago.

Whether the ICJ is able to provide some succour to the small island States or not remains to be seen. Its verdict won’t be ...

The world’s biggest climate case begins at The Hague in the Netherlands. Oral arguments will be heard by the International ...

The campaign to bring the case to the ICJ was initiated in 2019 by 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific in ...

A closely-watched international climate case that could yield guidance for governments around the world wrapped its first ...

The president of the International Criminal Court has lashed out at the United States and Russia for interfering with its ...

The Hague Court of Appeal found in the case Millieudefensie vs. Shell that the Shell Group has an obligation to ...

The United States argued that its pollution is not subject to international law at a hearing in The Hague. The United States ...