The formal process by which states or international courts acknowledge a mass atrocity as genocide under the 1948 UN Convention, with diplomatic and legal consequences worldwide.
The UN's principal court for state-to-state disputes, seated at The Hague; its judgments are binding but only as enforceable as the UN Security Council's political will.
full dossier ›A 159,500 sq km territory comprising two-thirds of Guyana's landmass, claimed by Venezuela since 1962, currently before the International Court of Justice.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague dismissed all of Rwanda's financial claims against the United Kingdom on 1 June 2026, ruling that a November 2024 diplomatic exchange had constituted a mutual agreement to forgo outstanding payments under the cancelled asylum deportation deal
The Hague weighs the 1899 boundary while Caracas swears in a governor of the territory it doesn't administer and Guyana arms up