Is Australia a safe haven for war criminals and torturers?
This month marked 22 years since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court but Australia is still not living up to the promise of international justice.
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Human suffering through the eyes of a war photographer
War Story deftly delves into the post-traumatic life of an embattled war photographer, writes Sonia Nair.
No Fire Zone – Mid-Week Review
No Fire Zone is a haunting but important film that explicitly documents violent acts of war, committed in a supposed protection zone in Sri Lanka, writes Maya Borom.
The world adopts an Arms Trade Treaty, but will it work?
Armed violence kills more than half a million people each year, small arms being responsible for a great proportion of these deaths. As Stephanie Koorey recently noted in Inside Story, while small arms and other conventional weapons do not cause wars, they do contribute to the “outbreak, intensity and duration of conflict”. As a consequence, […]