Domestic prosecutions in Germany and other European countries offer some hope of justice to victims of war crimes.


Mia Swart is a producer with the Public Liberties and Human Rights Centre at Al Jazeera. Mia is an international lawyer with a particular interest in ...international criminal law and humanitarian law.
Domestic prosecutions in Germany and other European countries offer some hope of justice to victims of war crimes.

Don Ferencz’s father prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg and made sure his son understood the depths of their crimes.
![Don Ferencz as a baby with his father, Benjamin Ferencz, in Nuremberg in 1952 [Photo courtesy of the Ferencz family]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DonFbaby-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Seventy-five years after senior Nazis were tried, a survivor’s daughter describes growing up in the Holocaust’s shadow.
![On the right, Moses Turner, the father of Tali Nates, with other Holocaust survivors. This photograph was taken after liberation in 1945 [Photo courtesy of Tali Nates]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Talioldyoungmen.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The son of a senior Nazi sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials on growing up in the shadow of his father’s crimes.
![The Frank children - (from left to right) Norman, Michael, Niklas, Sigrid and Brigitte - in 1942 at their house in Schliersee, Germany [Photo courtesy of Niklas Frank]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Niklasbalckwhite.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Booker Prize shortlisted author on being arrested, having more Black characters in fiction and why she writes.
![Tsitsi Dangarembga with a copy of her book, This Mournable Body, at her home in Harare, Zimbabwe [Aaron Ufumeli/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/h_56404159.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
International Commission of Jurists says amendment to FCRA law will ‘obstruct’ the work of NGOs in the country.

Experts expect a return to multilateralism and a closer relationship with the International Criminal Court.
![US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a visit to a voter activation centre in Chester, Pennsylvania, US, October 26, 2020 [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-26T203350Z_20293266_RC2KQJ90YHWA_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-BIDEN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
UN expert proposes human rights framework to manage the world’s tens of thousands of mass grave sites.
![Investigators of the International War Crimes Tribunal work at a mass grave where they discovered the remains of more than 100 executed people outside the village of Pilica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in September, 1996 [File: Odd Andersen/EPA-EFE]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56198066.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Jennifer Robinson speaks to Al Jazeera about the trial and what the future may hold for Assange, who is in poor health.
![WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, attends his trial at the Old Bailey in London, on October 1 2020 [Will Oliver/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56386741.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The watchdog says the targeting of civilians by the Syria-Russia alliance may amount to crimes against humanity.
