📌 🇨🇴 #Colombia - After 7 years of work and 4 years since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's #TransitionalJustice tribunal – known as the #JEP – finally handed down its first convictions. So what will the future bring? www.justiceinfo.net/en/150107-co...

#Duterte: "Justice should have been a Filipino fight. It still can be - but not without a brave and concerted effort." - Tom Smith (Professor of International Relations) #InternationalCriminalCourt #JusticeInPhilippines

"If you think the International Criminal Court’s case against Rodrigo Duterte is just about law, you’re missing the bigger picture. In Manila, the trial lands right in the middle of a recalibrated power game." - Tom Smith (professor of international relations) Thread 1/6 👇

🇵🇭 #Philippines #ICC [opinion] - Hearings in the case against former Philippines president Rodrigo #Duterte before the International Criminal Court were postponed. Professor Tom Smith explains how the ICC trial could avoid being just a show trial. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150012-ho...

🇽🇰 #Kosovo - James Rubin * was a defence witness this week in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. * former chief spokesman for the US State Department under Madeleine Albright and Clinton www.justiceinfo.net/en/149960-ja...

Colombia - "This week, as the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) hands out its first sentences, the main issue is which lessons, if any, will be learned from existing restorative projects." - Abigail Herrad / Meghan Velotas #RestorativeJustice #JEP

🇵🇸 #Palestine [AFP] - The report published today by the international commission of inquiry established by the UN Human Rights Council finds that Israel is committing #genocide against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149807-ga...

🇨🇴 #Colombia [opinion] - As Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) is about to issue its 2 first sentences on 16 and 18 September, Abigail Herrada and Meghan Velotas examine the restorative aspect of the sanctions. #RestorativeJustice #JEP www.justiceinfo.net/en/149852-co...

“Is it going to be in vain? […] At the end, this hearing will cause victims a lot of distress, because they will lose trust.” - Jackline Owacgiu Atingo (Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium) #InternationalCriminalCourt #Kony #Uganda

🇺🇬 #Uganda #ICC - Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) held an unprecedented hearing against Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan rebel movement Lord's Resistance Army. In the absence of the accused, what was the point? #InternationalCriminalCourt www.justiceinfo.net/en/149784-ko...

#SouthSudan #RiekMachar #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Philippines #Duterte #InternationalCriminalCourt #SouthAfrica #SteveBiko #SriLanka #WarCrimes #UN Below is our selection of 4 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

#InternationalCriminalCourt [podcast] - Lucy Gaynor, a close follower of the Hague court and historian, comment this week highly-publicized Joseph Kony’s in absentia confirmation of charges hearing. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social #Uganda #WarCrimes www.justiceinfo.net/en/149703-ko...

#Uganda - “Our dream is to have justice,” says Angel Stella Lanam. “Even in absence of justice, our work will continue majorly in providing livelihood support for the victims, giving medical assistance to victims with bullet wounds still lodged in their bodies...” Thread 1/4 👇

🇺🇬 #Uganda [report] - “Confusing for victims”, the video screening on Joseph #Kony’s case in the Ugandan city Gulu by the #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC), is reopening old wounds of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Victims are still waiting for justice. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149659-th...

“As an institution, they have to survive; the ICC is going through a hard period with sanctions, and states that ignore their obligations, so they need cases that they can deliver.” - Alette Smeulers (professor of criminology) 👉 @alettesmeulers.bsky.social #InternationalCriminalCourt

🇨🇭 #Switzerland - Justice on #UniversalJurisdiction cases continues to go at a snail’s pace, despite the current attorney general’s promises to make them a priority. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149594-sl...

“The Kony confirmation in absentia is a trial run in an important precedent for other bigger cases*.” - Michael Scharf (Professor of International Law) * Like Putin and Netanyahu cases #Uganda #InternationalCriminalCourt

🇺🇬 #Uganda - The case of Joseph Kony, a war criminal facing 39 charges, has been languishing for 20 years in a dusty corner at the #InternationalCriminalCourt in The Hague. But Kony's spirit is resurfacing. Only his spirit, though. Thread 1/4 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/149520-ko...

#UN #WarCrimes #DRCongo #UnitedStates #ICC #Palestine #Sudan #Darfur #CrimesAgainstHumanity #France #Syria #ArrestWarrant #Journalists Below is our selection of 4 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

🇸🇩 #Sudan - When few international journalists could witness the violence in Sudan, satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above did. Debate surrounding a new type of evidence during the #Lundin trial in Sweden. #WarCrimes www.justiceinfo.net/en/149477-ey...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - Former justice minister caught by the law. The verdict has been handed down in the Mutamba case, convicted of embezzling $19 million intended for war victims. #Mutamba #Frivao www.justiceinfo.net/en/149425-dr...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - In Odessa, a man who symbolises the grey areas of war is on trial. Former director of the Kherson pre-trial detention centre and victim of the Russians, Ihor Huryakov is being tried for high treason. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149354-ki...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - More than a year after the opening of the in absentia case of former Balakliya mayor Ivan Stolbovyi, accused of high treason, it has made little progress. What Balakliya resident remember about him? www.justiceinfo.net/en/149312-aw...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - Who defends victims of war crimes in Ukraine and how? What challenges they face? What motivates them when a verdict does not guarantee that victims feel justice has been served? Ukrainian lawyers tell their own stories. #WarCrimes #JusticeInUkraine www.justiceinfo.net/en/149249-th...

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh - One year after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country, her trial for crimes against humanity began before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh in early August. #SheikhHasina #CrimesAgainstHumanity www.justiceinfo.net/en/149180-ba...

🇬🇳 #Guinea - One year after a landmark verdict in the trial of the 2009 massacre at Conakry stadium, an appeals trial remains uncertain. Some are putting their faith in it, some no longer want it, and some are remaining silent. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149119-gu...

Twenty years after the violence of the FARC in Colombia, how the truth (and a little justice) resurfaces bit by bit, while love letters are unearthed from a woman's memory. Read this story now on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/149063-ki... Thread below 👇 1/3

The case of the 'Niger 8' has, with Zigiranyirazo's death, become the 'Niger 5'. Three men have died since 2021. See @justiceinfo.bsky.social from 2022 - www.justiceinfo.net/en/93462-pun... And @asymmetricalh.bsky.social from 2023 - www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

🇨🇴 #Colombia - The extraordinary journey of Abby Reyes and Julie Freitas through Colombia’s #TransitionalJustice to find out about the kidnapping and murder of three US indigenous rights activists by the FARC guerilla in 1999. By @bermudezlievano.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/149063-ki...

How difficult to choose the “Best Of”! Justice Info is 10 years old. For our traditional summer break, we have selected 10 justice stories that have marked this decade. See you on August 25. #InternationalJustice Check out the slideshow on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/148675-10...

🇨🇫 #CentralAfricanRepublic - In 10 years of existence and 7 years of operations, the Special Criminal Court in the CAR has indicted 36 people. Here is what this hybrid court has achieved and how it may fare after the US withdrew support. www.justiceinfo.net/en/148599-ca...

Yekatom & Ngaissona, from @justiceinfo.bsky.social: "There's the tension between what is the actual bread and butter of the #ICC & what a lot of people who observe and also participate in those trials want it to be...something bigger, something more symbolic, something that reaches more #victims."

#Ukraine - "In the past, when Russia stole our name and our history, the looted artifacts were displayed in the Hermitage or museums in Moscow. Now, they are being openly traded on the black market." - Mykola Tochytskyi (Ukraine’s minister of culture and strategic communications)

Rwanda-DRC : peace without justice This is the title of the opinion piece we are publishing today, by Evelyn Namakula Mayanja. So what does Trump have to do with this? Read it now on Justice Info 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/148526-rw...

#Ukraine - “The destruction and appropriation of culture is a weapon of war. By erasing memory and stealing heritage, occupiers attempt to rewrite history and replace a nation’s story with their own.” - Oksana Semenova (Ukrainian cultural historian) #LootedArt

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - Thousands of artworks, artifacts, and historical relics have been systematically looted by Russian forces from Ukrainian museums, galleries, and heritage sites in occupied territories. www.justiceinfo.net/en/148452-ar... #StolenArt

🇨🇫 #CentralAfricanRepublic - On July 24, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes committed in 2013-2014 in Central African Republic. It was an emblematic trial of old days. www.justiceinfo.net/en/148388-ic...

#ClimateJustice "The ICJ has told the world that climate impunity is no longer allowed and that those who have caused the greatest harm are required to provide remedy to the people most affected." Vishal Prasad Pacific Islands Students fighting #ClimateChange 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/148305-ic...

According to Amos Goldberg, historian of the Holocaust (Jerusalem), what the Israeli defence minister laid out in #Rafah was clear plans for the ethnic cleansing of #Gaza: “[It is] a transit camp for Palestinians before they expel them. It is neither humanitarian nor a city.”

[AFP] Assad trial in France: no... but maybe France's highest court rejected the arrest warrant against Bashar al-Assad on the grounds of presidential immunity. However, it stated that Bashar could be prosecuted in the future as he’s now been removed from power. www.justiceinfo.net/en/148334-as...

#ClimateJustice - The ICJ judges “have shown me that we are not powerless, that when you are organising, change is possible.” - Raki Ap (spokesperson of The United Liberation Movement for West Papua) #ClimateChange #InternationalCourtofJustice

#Rafah - This ‘humanitarian city’ would essentially become an open-air prison. Palestinians would be reliant on international aid under strict Israeli military control. #Palestine #Gaza - Shannon Bosch (Associate Professor in international law & international humanitarian law)

🚨🌏 #ClimateJustice - On July 23, the International Court of justice (ICJ) declared that climate change was “an existential problem of planetary proportions”. It stated the legal obligations of states and the right to reparations. By @margheritacapacci.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/148305-ic...

🇵🇸 #Palestine [opinion] - Law professor Shannon Bosch describes Israel's official plan for a “humanitarian city” in Rafah as a prelude to a mass expulsion of Palestinians, in major violation of international law. #Gaza #CrimeAgainstHumanity #InternationalLaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/148240-is...

🌍 [AFP] On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized that states have obligations to achieve results in the face of #ClimateChange. That their failures to do so are “wrongful”. And that claims for reparations are possible. #ClimateJustice #ICJ www.justiceinfo.net/en/148228-cl...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - Who is defending Russian soldiers on trial in Ukraine, why, and under what conditions? What are their professional challenges, fees, and security concerns? An investigation in the northern city of Chernihiv. #JusticeInUkraine #Lawyers www.justiceinfo.net/en/148130-oc...

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh - Electric shocks, “rotating chairs”, waterboarding: the latest report by Bangladesh’s Commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances uncovers the former regime's chambers of horror. #torture #EnforcedDisappearances www.justiceinfo.net/en/148038-ba...

En audiencia pública en Caicedo y Medellín, 7 ex mandos regionales de FARC reconocieron su rol en secuestros. Al hacerlo, empezaron a aportar a sus víctimas a nivel local fragmentos de verdad que llevaban años buscado. Mi reportaje en @justiceinfo.bsky.social→ www.justiceinfo.net/es/147845-se...

"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies." - Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social Read her article on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke... #Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid

🇱🇾 #Libya [AFP] - On July 18, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the arrest of a Libyan suspect in Germany. In hope that it doesn't go through the same humiliation as in Italy last January. #InternationalCriminalCourt #ICC www.justiceinfo.net/en/147989-ic...