Day of International Criminal Justice

  The UNAT 2025 Summer Session will be held from 16 to 27 June 2025. On 27 June 2025, the outcome of the judgments rendered during the 2025 Summer Session will be announced by the Judges in the UNAT's oral proceedings in CR 11. The UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) was established by the General Assembly in 2009, as part of the new UN system for the administration of justice. As the second level appellate review tribunal within the administration of justice system, UNAT reviews, within its specific jurisdiction, appeals against judgments rendered by the UN Dispute Tribunal, the Dispute Tribunal of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as well as appeals of decisions taken by the Standing Committee acting on behalf of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (UNJSPB), and by those organizations, agencies and entities that have accepted UNAT's jurisdiction. UNAT usually meets in session three times a year, in spring, summer and fall sessions...

War crimes include grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict and in conflicts not of an international character listed in the Rome Statute, when they are committed as part of a plan or policy or on a large scale. Specifically prohibited are murder, mutilation, torture, taking of hostages, acts of sexual violence, creating child soldiers, and attacks on civilians, hospitals, and houses of worship.