Today marks the end of the #Lafarge trial in Paris. In partnership with Justice Info, Sharon Weill, professor of international law, and 11 students from Sciences Po Paris provided weekly coverage of the trial in six episodes. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153834-la... #InternationalLaw

🎧 Podcast - Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts, Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, are wrapping up the events and highlights of #InternationalJustice in 2025. So what’s the storm like in The Hague? And what is it like behind the scenes? www.justiceinfo.net/en/153778-in...

Multinationals and international crimes - As the #Lafarge trial draws to a close in Paris, awareness of criminal liability remains limited in the business world. Few companies seem ready to fully integrate it into their strategic decisions. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153748-la...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - Yesterday (December 15) a French court sentenced 67-year-old former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in prison. This comes as armed violence is intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. #Lumbala #UniversalJurisdiction www.justiceinfo.net/en/153708-lu...

Human rights activist, Madi Jobarteh, said Sanna Manjang’s arrest opens doors for the eventual trial of Yahya Jammeh (former president of Gambia): “With his arrest, we will have information about the network of Junglers outside. It is one step closer to the dictator himself”.

#Syria #France - Lafarge trial courtroom diary (part 5): what could possibly lead to this? Only on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/153663-la... #LafargeTrial #Lafarge

Richard Bennett: "There are at least two ways of making gender apartheid an international crime. One is by amending the Rome Statute*, and the other is by including it in a new treaty on crimes against humanity, which is currently being negotiated at the UN in New York." #GenderApartheid

🇦🇫 #Afghanistan [interview] - Richard Bennett*: “If you applied to gender the language that defines apartheid, it applies to Afghanistan”. * UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan #GenderApartheid #HumanRights www.justiceinfo.net/en/153634-ri...

#Gambia - “I got prior knowledge that [Sanna Manjang] was coming to the court. I went to stand in front of him. I stood in his path to the courtroom and I stared at him. He was covering his face,” Baba Hydara told Justice Info.

🇬🇲 #Gambia - The arrest of Sanna Manjang, a key player in Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, may lead to a spectacular trial about crimes of the former hit squad, the Junglers. It also comes under the threat of Jammeh’s return to The Gambia. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153581-ga...

#HumanTrafficking [podcast] - Eritrean Amanuel Walid was arguably the highest human trafficker to stand trial in Europe. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts draw lessons from this trial in the Netherlands + an upcoming one at the International Criminal Court. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...

#ICC - “US sanctions on the court seem to have had several effects on states,” says Matt Cannock (Amnesty International). “They’re so egregious, so big-hammer, small-nail that there’s now almost a siege mentality among states,” which has led to “a sort of a resilient joint message”. @amnesty.org

🇨🇩 #DRCongo (trial in France) - The Paris Assize Court has finished hearing civil parties and witnesses in former Congolese warlord Roger Lumbala’s trial for complicity in crimes against humanity. #RogerLumbala #CrimesAgainstHumanity www.justiceinfo.net/en/153518-lu...

#InternationalCriminalCourt - "It feels as if the institutional ‘erasure’ of the third ICC Prosecutor* has begun, even before the current improvised, imperfect, and non-transparent investigation process has run its course." - Sergey Vasiliev (professor of international law) * Karim Khan

#JusticeForSyria - One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what? #TransitionalJustice

#Sudan [AFP] - Ali Kushayb, the 76-year-old former leader of the Sudanese Janjaweed militia had been found guilty by the #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC) of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur more than 20 years ago. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153434-20...

#InternationalCriminalCourt - While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the #ICC, refused to address the elephant in the room. This year, there were several of them. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... #ASP24

#Syria #France - Lafarge trial courtroom diary (part 3): re-humanising the hearings Only on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/153407-la... #LafargeTrial #Lafarge

📍 #Syria [infographic] - One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the map of transitional justice for grave violations of international law has been transformed, both in Syria and in other countries where crimes of his regime are being tried. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153370-ju...

🇬🇲 #Gambia [AFP] - Sanna Manjang, one of the leaders of the ‘Junglers’, the commandos responsible for the dirty work of Yahya Jammeh’s regime, was arrested in Senegal and handed over to Gambia, which charged him with several murders on Wednesday 3 December. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153146-sa...

#Syria - While #Lafarge is on trial in Paris for funding terrorism, the complicity in crimes against humanity aspect of this case remains under investigation. Former Syrian employees fear they will never see justice. #CrimesAgainstHumanity www.justiceinfo.net/en/153258-la...

"This project* is written like a campaign promise. Believing in it means running a high risk of disappointment, and the African peoples of the Sahel, more particularly those of the AES, cannot follow their leaders down such a path."

#DRCongo - “I came to defend justice and human rights. I travelled along dangerous roads to reach Beni and then flew to Paris because I want justice,” explained the Pygmy chief, who regrets that Lumbala is not attending his trial. #Lumbala #Justice #HumanRights #UniversalJurisdiction

#InternationalCriminalCourt [opinion] - More than two months ago, the three members of the Sahel Alliance (AES) announced their withdrawal from the ICC. According to the author of this Opinion, this was merely a publicity stunt. #Sahel www.justiceinfo.net/en/153200-sa...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - The first week of witness and victim testimony in Roger Lumbala’s Paris trial looked at the facts, and at the responsibility of the former Congolese rebel leader acting under Jean-Pierre Bemba’s protection. #LumbalaTrial www.justiceinfo.net/en/153103-lu...

🇱🇾 #Libya [AFP] - A Libyan suspect was transferred yesterday, Monday 1 December, to the International Criminal Court (#ICC) by Germany, nearly 15 years after the Security Council referred the situation to the Court to try serious crimes committed in Libya. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153046-a-...

#InternationalCriminalCourt - “The prosecutor has always been the public face of the court” says Mark Ellis, the head of the International Bar Association, and “the gap suggests that the ICC is kind of leaderless”.

Lafarge trial courtroom diary (part 3): Tracing the flow of funds to terrorist groups Only on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/153022-la... #Lafarge #LafargeTrial

#InternationalCriminalCourt - “People are quitting or just have to be so cautious that it’s changing every single meeting. We have precautions with every single thing we do...” - Danya Chaikel (FIDH representative to the ICC) #ICC @danyachaikel.bsky.social @fidh-official.bsky.social Thread 1/4👇

#InternationalCriminalCourt - In the 2025 Staff Engagement Survey, which Justice Info has seen, fewer than half the staff would recommend the #ICC as a place to work and less than a third believe the ICC has an open and honest culture. #ASP24

#ICC - As the Annual Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court opens today, Justice Info reviews the main challenges facing a court in mortal danger, attacked on many sides, abandoned by certain states, and lacking leadership. #ASP24 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152952-ic...

🇱🇾 #Libya - The trial of a migrant smuggling alleged leader concluded on 26 November at the court of Zwolle, in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. The Eritrean man has paved the way for another trial scheduled for spring. #MigrantSmuggling By @margheritacapacci.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/152885-mi...

#TransitionalJustice - “If the U.S. is serious about learning from Afghanistan, it must start by confronting the legacy of impunity it left behind.” - Huma Saeed (human rights activist / transitional justice expert)

🇦🇫 #Afghanistan [opinion] - The Afghanistan War Commission established by the 🇺🇸 U.S. Congress has been going on for 4 years. As it embarks on its last round of hearings it must fully address the U.S. failure to provide accountability, says the author. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152817-af...

#HashimThaci - “He was the most presentable. He was the youngest, had a better haircut, better clothes. But he wasn't a military commander.” - Wesley Clark (ex-NATO commander) #Kosovo #ThaciTrial

#Syria - A new trial of 5 Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime. #Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...

Lafarge trial courtroom diary (part 2): White-Collar Terror Trial Only on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152660-la... #Lafarge

🇽🇰 #Kosovo - Former NATO commander Wesley Clark testified in the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. #HashimThaci #KosovoSpecialistChambers www.justiceinfo.net/en/152619-wh...

#RightsoftheNature - The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy. #ClimateJustice www.justiceinfo.net/en/152554-th...

#Nuremberg [in-depth interview] - Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152507-nu...

#Ukraine - Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression: "I don’t agree that the tribunal is limited by immunity: it can investigate crimes of aggression without restriction..." - Andrii Kostin (Ambassador of Ukraine, Netherlands)

🇨🇩 #RDCongo - The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced. Read 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152396-fi... #RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction

#CrimeOfAggression against #Ukraine - “Indeed, the Special Tribunal does not yet exist, but a massive groundwork has already been laid for it to start functioning.” - Andrii Leshchenko (Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine)

🚨 🇧🇩 #Bangladesh [AFP] - On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by her country's courts for ordering the deadly crackdown on protests that led to her downfall in 2024. #SheikhHasina #DeathPenalty www.justiceinfo.net/en/152345-ba...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine 🇪🇺 #Europe - The Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, signed by the European Council, does not yet have its own building, judges or administrative staff. But it mobilizes its Ukrainian actors. #CrimeOfAggression www.justiceinfo.net/en/152324-uk...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo [report] - In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12. #LumbalaTrial www.justiceinfo.net/en/152244-wi...

🇸🇸 #SouthSudan - They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet 25 years later, in the #Lundin trial in Stockholm (Sweden), the oil company’s former security chiefs remember almost nothing. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152186-th... #WarCrimes

#ClimateJustice - "The International Court of Justice has set a non-binding standard and a lot of that will now go back to national cases before national courts with binding judgments. And there the law will develop further." #ICJ - Dennis van Berkel (Dutch lawyer)

#LafargeTrial - In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial. First episode 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152066-la... @sciencespo.bsky.social

#LafargeTrial: Already 5 publications in our special focus. Justice Info offers exceptional coverage of this extraordinary trial: journalistic insights, analytical op-eds, and monitoring by political science students. #Lafarge #WarAndBusiness www.justiceinfo.net/en/151989-wa...