amy: reed brody, thanks for being with us. former counsel of human rights watch.of “to catch a dictator: the pursuit and trial of hissene habre." next, the cdc warns teenage girls face record levels of hopelessness and depression. we look at the role of social media. back in 30 seconds. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the centers for disease control is warning teenage girls across the u.s. are engulfed in a " growing wave of violence and trauma." data shows there has been an increase in rapes and assaults as well as record levels of depression and hopelessness. the data is from a cdc survey conducted on 17,000 high school teenagers, were nearly a third of teenage girls said they considered suicide, up nearly 60% from a decade ago. at least 13% of them said they had attempted suicide in the past year, while almost 15% of the girls surveyed said they'd been sexually assaulted. we look at calls from congress to do more to protect children, especially girls online. we are joined by three guest

we go now to longtime human rights attorney reed brody.author of "to catch a dictator: the pursuit and trial of hissÈne habrÉ." he is joining us from spain. welcome back to democracy now! can you talk about the significance of what is being set up and what you think needs to be understood? >> well, the first thing to be understood is that there already is the largest war crimes investigation in history going on right now in ukraine. ukrainian prosecutors have opened tens of thousands of cases. the international criminal court has opened its largest field operation ever. you have 15 countries that have opened up their own investigations war into war crimes. you have this joint investigative team of seven countries, but all of these investigations are looking at war crimes and crimes against humanity. they are not looking at the crime of aggression. and so the proposal has been made to create a special tribunal for the crime of aggression. and this announcement by ursula von der leyen is just a precursor to that. it is to set up a center to