#ClimateJustice [in-depth interview] - The #COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel (Climate Litigation Network), reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has trickled up to the international level. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151928-th...

Bonaire v. the Netherlands: a landmark climate trial: “We are in court to be heard and for the people to know that we have the same rights as European Dutch citizens.” - Angelo Vrolijk (resident of Bonaire / Netherlands) #ClimateJustice #GlobalWarming #IndigenousRights

#Afghanistan [podcast] 🎧 - There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151875-fi...

#Eritrea👉 #Libya 👉 #Netherlands - Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya. #HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction www.justiceinfo.net/en/151860-ex...

#JusticeForGaza - Our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what? #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC) #InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ) #UnitedNations (UN) #UniversalJurisdiction

The #LafargeTrial opens today in Paris. “The debates, which the defense can sometimes make technical, must not obscure the real impacts on people who have not been properly protected.” Cannelle Lavite (ECCHR - @ecchr.bsky.social) Justice Info will follow this case closely.

🇵🇸 #Palestine - It's a battle that is worrying Israel. Since the offensive in #Gaza in 2023, numerous courts, both international and national, have been seized for the alleged crimes committed by Israelis. #JusticeForGaza: our world map. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151753-ju...

Syria/France - Who is in charge in the Lafarge trial? [infographic] The French cement manufacturer is suspected of having paid €5 million to armed groups in Syria between 2013 and 2014. #Lafarge #LafargeTrial

#Syria - The #Lafarge trial opens on Tuesday 4 November in Paris. The French cement manufacturer is in the dock, as a legal entity, along with eight former executives, managers and intermediaries, for financing terrorism in Syria. (article + infographic) www.justiceinfo.net/en/151678-la...

What is the impact of #ClimateChange on Bonaire*? “Where we used to work, play, walk, or fish outdoors, it’s now unbearable in the middle of the day”, said Onnie Emerenciana at the opening of a new ‘climate trial’ against the Dutch state. [1/5] - Thread 👇

🇳🇱 #Netherlands - #Bonaire is both Caribbean and European. Now, the inhabitants of this flat island threatened by rising sea levels are filing a complaint against the Netherlands, demanding to be treated like other Dutch citizens. #ClimateJustice www.justiceinfo.net/en/151589-cl...

[podcast] 🎧 When is war legally war? This new episode from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts, with Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg and Tamsin Philipa Paige, help us consider and rethink the rights of #war today. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151545-wh...

#Syria - Syrian trials continue in Sweden: last week, a court in Stockholm began hearing the case of a man from Yarmouk camp near Damascus, accused of participating in the repression carried out by the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151533-a-...

#HasinaTrial - Md Asaduzzaman (Attorney general of Bangladesh): “If we cannot ensure justice, the people of Bangladesh will remain cowardly and spineless in the ruins of history,” he said, adding that he expected “the maximum punishment.” #SheikhHasina #CrimesAgainstHumanity

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh - At the end of a nearly three-month in absentia trial, the chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal asked the judges to pronounce a death penalty on the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh #Hasina. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151456-ha...

#Gaza - “These companies did contribute to the commission of these crimes, and the documentation of this complicity is unprecedented.” - Damien Scalia & Elisa Novic, for Justice Info #WarCrimes #GenocideinGaza

🇵🇸 #Gaza [opinion] - Can the fragile prospect of peace in Gaza wipe the slate clean of the crimes and complicity of arms suppliers? #LordsOfWar #WarCrimes #genocide www.justiceinfo.net/en/151422-ga...

#Syria [AFP] - French investigating judges issued a third arrest warrant on 29 July against former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks carried out in 2013, according to judicial sources. #BasharAlAssad #UniversalJurisdiction www.justiceinfo.net/en/151313-as...

#Gaza [AFP] - An advisory opinion from the UN’s top court (International Court of Justice / #ICJ) said on Wednesday, that #Israel has a legal obligation to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151265-un...

#Australia - First People’s Assembly's co-chair Rueben Berg, in a speech on the floor of Victoria’s parliament, said: “The time for paternalistic governments making decisions on behalf of our people ends with this treaty. No longer will policies be made about us without us.” #FirstPeoples

🇦🇺 #Australia - In the state of Victoria, the first treaty between an Australian government and #FirstPeoples is on the verge of ratification, after a bill giving effect to the agreement passed the lower house of the parliament last week. #IndigenousPeoples www.justiceinfo.net/en/151293-vi...

#Ukraine : “Sometimes artists try to earn reputation credits on trauma. But sometimes it’s the opposite: powerful artistic actions, as in Banksy’s case, help the world see something important.” - Sofia Martyniuk Read our article 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/151223-ir... #StreetArt #memory #Irpin

🇺🇦 #Ukraine [report] - At the start of Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine, the violence against civilians in Bucha and Irpin made headlines. The city of #Irpin is taking on the task of memorializing these events. #memory www.justiceinfo.net/en/151223-ir...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - How does Ukraine remember its citizens who died as a result of #WarCrimes? In Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson, the military administration, local governments, artists and philosophers are creating a large number of memorials. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151161-ho...

#Lyba #Kadhafi #Trump #Putin #Airbnb #Bookingcom #Israel #InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #KarimKhan #Bosnia #WarCrimes Below is our selection of 5 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh - Justice seems to be tackling head-on the scourge of enforced disappearances under the former regime. 24 arrest warrants were issued against army officers allegedly responsible for #CrimesAgainstHumanity. 13 had been detained. www.justiceinfo.net/en/151031-cr...

🇱🇷 #Liberia - After 11 years of investigation, 🇧🇪 Belgian judicial authorities have closed a #WarCrimes investigation against Martina Johnson, a former Liberian commander close to Charles Taylor. She is accused of torture and mutilation in the 1990s. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150986-be...

🇨🇩 #RDCongo [interview] - Ithiel Batumike Mihigo, a jurist at Congolese political research institute Ebuteli, answers Justice Info’s questions after the High Military Court in Kinshasa on September 30 handed down a death sentence on Joseph Kabila. #JosephKabila www.justiceinfo.net/en/150885-ka...

For Mohamed Osman (@hrw.org), “it is also important to see the International Criminal Court jurisdiction be expanded to the whole country of Sudan, because these crimes are no longer confined to the Darfur region”. #InternationalCriminalCourt #Sudan #Darfur

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - What has justice been able to achieve for Lukashivka, a village of less than 400 residents in the Chernihiv region, three years and a half after its liberation? #WarCrimes #JusticeInAbsentia www.justiceinfo.net/en/150829-ju...

#InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #Philippines #Italy #Lybia #WarCrimes #Israel #Hamas #ceasefire Below is our selection of 3 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

🇸🇩 #Sudan - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has handed down its judgement against "Ali Kushayb". Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, it offers "some relief" to the victims but remains an isolated act of justice. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150750-al...

⚖️ #InternationalCourtofJustice [podcast] 🎧 - Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the ICJ, this new podcast updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150722-ic...

Some excerpts and quotes from our article on the impacts of oil exploration by #Pluspetrol (based in the Netherlands) on #IndigenousPeoples and the environment in Peru. Thread 1/7 👇

🇷🇼 #Rwanda [opinion] - When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court? #Kabuga by @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/150638-th...

🇸🇩 #Sudan [AFP] - Today, in the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in #Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity. #AliKushayb www.justiceinfo.net/en/150592-ic...

🇵🇪 #Peru - How a OECD Dutch 🇳🇱 panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru. #Pluspetrol #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalJustice #CorporateResponsibility #OECD www.justiceinfo.net/en/150580-an...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from #Frivao, the compensation fund for victims of the Ugandan army in the DRC. #Corruption www.justiceinfo.net/en/150512-dr...

#MacharTrial - South Sudan’s Civil Society Forum called for judicial independence, due process & restraint from “political interference or incitement,” noting that the case “will have profound implications for peacebuilding, national healing, reconciliation, & justice for all South Sudanese people.”

🇸🇸 #SouthSudan [opinion] - Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for #WarCrimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger state. By Jehanne Henry www.justiceinfo.net/en/150462-th...

#ResponsibilityToProtect - "If we had a culture and politics of permanent prevention much earlier, that would change everything. […] The problem is that very often when we raise the alert very early about the possibility of atrocity crimes, people do not take it seriously." - Mo Bleeker (UN #R2P)

#genocides #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity “I want every perpetrator to think there's a file on him, or at least to go to bed at night worrying about it.” - Nicholas Koumjian (Head of IIMM / UN)

#InternationalJustice [interview] - What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect (#R2P) mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere? Mô Bleeker (UN) answers questions from Justice Info. #UnitedNations www.justiceinfo.net/en/150411-mo...

#Rohingya - “What jumps out at me from this report is that this is a pattern that directly echoes previous genocides, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, and current genocides like in Gaza.” - Melanie O' Brien (Genocide scholar) #Myanmar #UN

#Myanmar - “I’ve worked on five separate #genocide cases before and this was some of the most compelling evidence I’ve ever seen,” says a former senior member of the NGO Commission for International Justice & Accountability (CIJA). #Rohingya #UNreport #IIMM

🇲🇲 #Myanmar - Today, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM) publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of #Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the #genocide, it says. By @janethanderson.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...

🇵🇭 #Philippines [podcast] 🎧 - Benjie Aquino tells how the postponement of the #Duterte trial at the #InternationalCriminalCourt and the uncertainty on the whole process have increased the space for #disinformation, rumors and wild speculations. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150292-du... FYI: @redress.org

🇵🇸 #Palestine [opinion] - Tomorrow, Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address the United Nations's General Assembly, after a UN independent inquiry established that the government of Israel was committing a #GenocideinGaza. Why is this report important? www.justiceinfo.net/en/150253-ge...

🇬🇱 #Greenland [opinion] - On September 24, #Denmark 🇩🇰 will officially apologize to Greenland for the so-called “IUD campaign,” which claimed thousands of victims among Greenlandic women. Against the backdrop of the threat of American annexation. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150175-de...

#Sahel [AFP] - On September 22, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). All three countries are ruled by military juntas supported by Russia. 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/150149-th... #InternationalCriminalCourt