International Court of Justice
Primary judicial organ of the United Nations
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| 2025 | Yuji Iwasawa from Japan becomes the 28th President of the International Court of Justice |
| 2024 | Nawaf Salam from Lebanon becomes the 27th President of the International Court of Justice |
| 2024 | Joan Donoghue from the United States becomes the 26th President of the International Court of Justice |
| 2024 | Nawaf Salam resigned as ICJ President to assume the office of Prime Minister of Lebanon, with Yuji Iwasawa elected to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term. |
| 2024 | Russia no longer had a judge on the Court, following the Soviet Union's historical representation. |
| 2024 | New judges appointed from the USA, Mexico, Romania, and South Africa, demonstrating ongoing international judicial representation. |
| December 2024 | The International Court of Justice begins historic hearings on climate change, involving 99 countries and over 12 intergovernmental organizations. The General Assembly requested an advisory opinion addressing states' obligations to protect the climate system and the legal consequences of environmental harm. |
| 2023 | Judges were elected to take office from 2024 without a Russian member, marking the first time in the court's history that no judge would be from the Commonwealth of Independent States or Russia. |
| November 13 2023 | The ICJ had entertained 191 cases as of this date. |
| March 16 2022 | Ukraine filed a complaint against Russia for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. The ICJ ordered Russia to 'immediately suspend military operations' with a 13-2 vote, which Russian representatives refused to acknowledge. |
| 2021 | Abdulqawi Yusuf from Somalia becomes the 25th President of the International Court of Justice |
| 2021 | Germany's Georg Nolte and Australia's Hilary Charlesworth joined the court, representing continued global judicial diversity. |
| 2018 | The UK no longer had a judge on the Court, breaking the tradition of permanent UN Security Council members having a seat. |
| 2018 | The conventional seat allocation was broken when an Asian judge was elected to a seat previously held by the Western Europe and others group. |
| 2018 | Lebanon's Nawaf Salam and Japan's Yuji Iwasawa were appointed to the International Court of Justice. |
| 2017 | India filed a complaint regarding a death penalty verdict against Kulbhushan Jadhav by a Pakistani military court, alleging espionage charges. |
| 2017 | British judge Sir Christopher Greenwood was withdrawn as a candidate for a second nine-year term on the court, leaving the United Kingdom without a judge on the ICJ. Indian judge Dalveer Bhandari took the seat instead. |
| 2012 | Julia Sebutinde became Vice-president of the International Court of Justice, with a term extending until 2030. |
| December 5 2011 | The Republic of North Macedonia's complaint against Greece for vetoing its NATO accession was decided in favor of North Macedonia. |
| February 2011 | Number of states with optional clause declarations increased to seventy-four, up from sixty-six in February. |
| 2010 | USA's Joan E. Donoghue joined the court, continuing the international representation. |
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