#Mexico - Last month, the UN Committee on #EnforcedDisappearances said they have “well founded indications that enforced disappearances in Mexico have been & continue to be committed as crimes against humanity”. It referred the situation to the General Assembly. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159438-me...

#LundinTrial (crimes in Sudan / trial in Sweden) - Alex Schneiter's defence in brief 👇 ... #WarCrimes #UniversalJurisdiction

#Philippines - Last week Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s flight through the Senate corridors was not a constitutional crisis caused by foreign justice. It was a local production, staged by Filipino politicians, using Filipino institutions, to protect Filipino impunity. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159354-ic...

#Ukraine [AFP] - The European Union and 36 states, mostly European, formally committed on Friday 15 May 2026 to establishing the Special Tribunal for the #CrimeOfAggression against Ukraine. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159263-tr...

🎧 #Myanmar [podcast] - Investigations have been opening in southeast Asia – by Myanmar’s neighbours – into alleged crimes committed after the military took over in 2021, which we discover in this new Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159252-wi... #UniversalJurisdiction

#SouthSudan - Last week in Stockholm (Sweden), it was Alexandre Schneiter’s defence team turn to present its closing arguments. For four days, #Lundin ’s former CEO and “sub-surface guy” meticulously tackled the geology of the evidence. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159242-sc... #UniversalJurisdiction

#WarWords - 🗨️ "In Sudan, the problem is not only the existence of legal offences related to collaboration or aiding armed actors. Many legal systems recognise such crimes." 👇 Quotes by Eglal Hamid, Sudanese writer and policy commentator #CollaborationTrials #language #WarLanguage

#Sudan [opinion] - War survives in language, warns Sudanese writer Eglal Hamid. Labels like “collaborators” shape how responsibility is understood and how justice is administered. Here are four tasks for Sudan’s #TransitionalJustice not to reproduce exclusion. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159065-wh...

#Philippines [AFP] - A new arrest warrant from the #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC) was made public today, 11 May 2026, against Ronald Marapon Dela Rosa, a former Philippine police officer who took part in the Duterte anti-drug campaign and is now a senator. www.justiceinfo.net/en/159019-ne...

123 countries have voted for a UN resolution recognising slavery of Africans as "the gravest crime against humanity". They are calling for reparative justice. Quote from Maurizio Delli Santi's article 👇 #SlaveTrade #slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity

#Africa - The UN resolution of 25 March 2026 recognizes the transatlantic trade in Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity”, and asks for reparative justice. Europe should pay attention, says jurist Maurizio Delli Santi. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158997-sl... #Slavery #TransatlanticTrade

#JusticeInGuatemala - “For all of us who have sought justice and fought against impunity, this is a sigh of relief,” Rosalina Tuyuc, told Justice Info regarding Porras’s imminent departure from the Attorney General’s Office. #IndigenousRights #impunity #corruption #transitionalJustice

🎧 #MilitaryAI [podcast] - “Everybody’s trying to get their hands on it.” This podcast looks into the new role of Artificial intelligence in military targeting & explains what it means for international humanitarian law. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158876-ai... #IHL #AI

#Guatemala - Guatemala’s Attorney General for 8 years is bound to leave her office. She has been the nightmare of anticorruption prosecutors, #HumanRights activists and #TransitionalJustice advocates. But does it signal profound change? www.justiceinfo.net/en/158869-gu... #impunity #corruption

#InternationalCriminalCourt - Excerpt from Karim Khan’s interview with Mehdi Hasan: “Can you confirm today that you had no sexual relations with this woman who worked for you [and] under you?” asks Hassan. “Well, I didn't,” answers Khan. More below 👇

#KarimKhan - In the probe into alleged sexual misconduct by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan, which he denies, the latest stage of the drama is a media interview, his first since he stepped aside a year ago. Here are his key answers. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158759-ka...

#LundinTrial in Sweden - The defence’s closing theme was the reverse of the prosecution’s. The prosecution says war enabled oil. The defence says oil required peace. “It was not fighting, but peace, that made operations possible.” #WarAndPeace #WarCrimes #UniversalJurisdiction

#SouthSudan - Two and a half years after the #Lundin trial opened in Stockholm District Court, Ian Lundin’s defence opened its final argument by attacking the very foundation of the prosecution’s case. Here’s a detailed account of their position. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158720-lu... #WarCrimes

Crimes in Syria + Trial in Germany = #UniversalJurisdiction - 3 quotes from the accused, Fahd Al-Hamid (Syrian former prison guard / defector). #Syria #JusticeForSyria #defectors

#Syria - The trial of Syrian former prison guard Fahd Al-Hamid opened in Germany. And as in several other #UniversalJurisdiction trials, it poses the question whether those who defected and shared crucial information should face prosecution. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158606-ho... #Branch251 #AlKhatib

#Syria: excerpts from our report 👉 “My son is not a terrorist!” Om Eyhab screamed, as the crowded court held its breath and listened. “I am Om Eyhab Al-Mhamid,” she added. “You killed him in Ramadan, on August 15, 2012, because he was handing out bread ... #AtefNajibTrial #TransitionalJustice

#InternationalLaw 🎧 [podcast] - In this second episode of our new podcast, #DeadMenWalking, produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, we turn our attention to international law. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158551-de... #ChangingWorldOrder

#Syria [report] - “Today marks the beginning of the first transitional justice trial in Syria”. The moment felt historical, and loaded with anger and uncertainty. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158536-to... #TransitionalJustice #HumanRights #torture Thread 👇

When the US uses #militaryAI in Iran, to what extent are the use of AI to carry out these strikes and the error (at Minab School) committed lawful under #InternationalLaw? Quotes from Luis Perez 👇 #Iran #Minab #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #IHL #AI

#Iran [opinion] - The war in Iran highlights the U.S. and Israeli militaries’ reliance on military artificial intelligence. Yet the bombing of a school in Minab, which killed 170 civilians, did not set off any alarms. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158475-ai... #MilitaryArtificialIntelligence #MilitaryAI

#Iran - “During war, human rights violations don’t get attention and there is less political cost for the regime,” says Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, an Iranian exile in Norway who is director of the NGO Iran Human Rights. #WarCrimes #HumanRights #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #IHL

#Iran - Since February 28, 2026, Iranians have found themselves targeted by two opposing forces: US-Israeli airstrikes and aggression; and their own government, which has stepped up repression. What hopes for justice? www.justiceinfo.net/en/158387-ir... #WarCrimes #HumanRights #InternationalLaw

#Whistleblowers and #TransitionalJustice in Gambia - Didier Gbery, Gambia's representative for the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), said a strong legal and institutional measure should be in place for proper vetting to ensure a safe working environment for victims.

🇧🇪 #Belgium [podcast] 🎧 - In 2003, Belgium went from one of the great hopes for all accountability campaigners into a relatively minor player in the field. Why? Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts talk to lawyer & scholar Mathias Holvoet. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158318-be... #UniversalJurisdiction

🇬🇲 #Gambia - A new witness in the trial of former hitman Sanna Manjang is working under the authority of a man who sat on the panel that had sent him to prison back in 2006. Showing the limits of the vetting procedure in Gambia’s post dictatorship. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158305-di... #torture

Australian #WarCrimes in #Afghanistan - Professor Donald Rothwell, of The Australian National University, says that the Schultz case “is the test case for how the law works, and how the procedures will be applied before the courts”.

#Afghanistan - Federal Police boarded a commercial flight in Sydney, on April 7, to arrest Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s highest-profile and most-decorated former soldier. It marked a new step in a #WarCrimes investigation that began more than five years ago. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158226-ro...

#InternationalCriminalCourt #KarimKhan - A statement by the coalition of NGOs from Francophone Africa for the ICC has been addressed to the ASP bureau, insisting on the integrity of the process. Quote from Ali Ouattara, the coordinator 👇

#JusticeReporters in #Syria [video] - On 18/04, Justice Info hosted a panel discussion at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The full recording of this discussion (50min) is available on the event website and on YouTube. 👇 #IJF26 #InternationalJournalism #Perugia #journalism

#InternationalCriminalCourt - The investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan is not over. The legal and political community is now fracturing in different camps. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158169-ho... #KarimKhan

Will you be in Perugia (Italy) tomorrow, Saturday morning? Don’t miss our panel discussion: "Justice at last? Covering Syrian justice playing out on multiple stages" The event will be live streamed 👉 www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20... #InternationalJournalism #IJF26 #Perugia #HumanRights

#CentralAfricanRepublic - Following the death of its chief prosecutor, the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in Bangui is operating without a chief prosecutor and without an approved budget for 2026. While many cases are ready to trial. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158091-cp... #SpecialCriminalCourt

#Sudan [interview] - April 15 marked 3 years since the start of the current conflict. There is little end in sight, and little sign of justice for civilians there. We talk to Mona Rishmawi, a Swiss Palestinian expert on Sudan. www.justiceinfo.net/en/158028-th... #genocide #Darfur #UnitedNations

#InternationalCriminalCourt 🎧 [podcast] - This 1st episode of « Dead Men Walking » scrutinizes the ICC, one of the most embattled international institutions of our time. www.justiceinfo.net/en/156717-de... #InternationalJustice #GlobalCriminalJustice #ChangingWorldOrder

#Lafarge: This is a “historic” verdict that is “proportionate to the extreme gravity of the facts”, says Cannelle Lavite, co-director of the Business and Human Rights Program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) which was recognized as a civil party. @ecchr.bsky.social

#Syria - In a landmark ruling on #CorporateResponisibility, a French court on April 13 found cement giant #Lafarge guilty of financing terrorism in Syria. Two executives were jailed and there was an unprecedented conviction for a corporation. www.justiceinfo.net/en/157907-to...

Excellent article by @janethanderson.bsky.social on the impact of US sanctions against ICC judges + staff members. It’s worse than you think. And it looks like sanctions are spearheading an attack against the judiciary outside the US www.justiceinfo.net/en/156847-li... via @justiceinfo.bsky.social

#InternationalJournalism - This week, from Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 April, Justice Info will be attending the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. #Perugia #IJF26 #InternationalJustice #JusticeReporting

#Syria - A new Syrian trial began. Rafiq al Q. is the most senior alleged official with close ties to Bashar al-Assad’s regime to be tried in the Netherlands, on charges of sexual violence classified as a #CrimeAgainstHumanity. www.justiceinfo.net/en/157803-sy... #UniversalJurisdiction #torture

#Lundin executives accused in Sweden of complicity in war crimes commited in Sudan - “The company operated in an environment of maximum insecurity - and that was seen as an advantage, because it kept competitors away.”

#Ecocide [podcast] 🎧 - The activists who lobbied to have ecocide included in the Rome Statute will have to rely on ICC’s provisions that categorize environmental crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity. www.justiceinfo.net/en/157358-ec... #InternationalCriminalCourt #EnvironmentalJustice

🇸🇸 #SouthSudan - According to the prosecution’s conclusions, #Lundin Oil’s operations in Sudan were not merely conducted in a conflict. They were intertwined with it. And Ian Lundin & Alexandre Schneiter should be sentenced to prison for complicity in #WarCrimes. www.justiceinfo.net/en/157352-pr...

#Syria [opinion] - More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, a central question remains: what will convince Syrians that the new state is not just the same old machinery in a different form? #TransitionalJustice www.justiceinfo.net/en/157239-sy...

#deportation from #Belarus to #Lithuania - It's a “huge issue”, confirms Marieke De Hoon (University of Amsterdam), who has visited the country regularly, with “migrants being pushed into their [Lithuanian] territory” & the pushback. #HumanRights #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalCriminalCourt

🇧🇾 #Belarus - Those who have lobbied for accountability for the regime of Alexander Lukashenko and his political crackdown in 2020 are cheered: the #InternationalCriminalCourt has opened a full investigation. But the court’s legal and political space is tight. www.justiceinfo.net/en/157161-ic...