war crimes

Avalon Project : the International Military Tribunal for Germany: Contents of the Nuremberg trials collection

Presented as part of the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, these web pages provide the documentation relating to the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945-1946. The texts available on the site include motions, orders, rules of procedure, testimony, evidence reports, judgements and sentences, key documents relating to the proceedings and supporting documents. Users can select documents from the listing, or use a search engine to search by keyword.

Erasing history: ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (1999)

This site contains the full-text of a report released by the US Department of State in May 1999. It provides a chronology of the nature and extent of war crimes in the region after the departure of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission which had previously made regular human rights reports. Information available includes details of the extent of the atrocities, their location and type, covering such forms as detention, execution, rape and looting.

Coalition for the International Criminal Court

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is the primary NGO provider of online information about the International Criminal Court. There is a link to the International Criminal Court (ICC) website detailing stages in its implementation. The site provides organisational, historical and general information on the ICC along with details of updates and developments, current cases and situations.There are documents from the United Nations, governments and non-governmental organizations accessible on the site.

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - (ICTY)

The ICTY was established by a United Nations Security Council Resolution in May 1993 to prosecute persons responsible for violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991. Its website contains legal documents relating to the operation of the Tribunal including the rules of procedure and regulations of conduct. It also contains details of all the cases tried by the tribunal, including the full-text of the initial indictments, data on the progress of the case and some transcripts.

Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945

Website of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property a charitable organisation set up under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies to provide information and resources on Nazi looted cultural property. The site contains information from 40 countries which participated in the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets. Information provided for each country includes laws, policies and guidelines, official reports and research resources. Information on the site is fully searchable by phrase or keyword.

International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: A Guide to Online and Print Resources

Online guide to the international criminal courts of Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone compiled by Amy Burchfield who is Head of Access and Faculty Services at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library and updated by Andrew Dorchak who is Head of Reference and Foreign/International Law Specialist at The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library at Case Western Reserve University's School of Law. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2025 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

Humanitarian Law Center

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) is a non-governmental human rights and humanitarian law centre established in 1992 following the conflict in former Yugoslavia. It is based in Serbia. The HLC's work includes researching human rights violations, campaigning for justice and institutional reform and gathering documentation on war crimes. The website provides court documentation, reports, press releases and other information. Details of conferences and courses organised by the HLC are also available. The site is in Serbian, English and Albanian

Armenian National Institute

The Armenian National Institute is a US-based organisation committed to affirmation of and research into the Armenian genocide, which occurred during the First World War. Its website provides a large collection of resources, including a timeline; photographic images; contemporary press coverage; full-text treaties, reports and other documents; the indictment and verdict of the Turkish Military Tribunal of 1919; and bibliographies. The site also offers an educational resources section for teachers.

Nuremberg Trials Project

The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project will make available digital images or full-text versions of documents relating to the trials of German Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The project will take place over the next 10 years. Currently the website has trial documents from the Medical Case (Case 1 of the NMT trials) and includes transcripts of court proceedings, analytical data and a search engine for documents currently available on the site.

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