Out Now: What is the state of accountability for the children of Ukraine? We asked @thordiskolbrun.bsky.social, the Council of Europe's Special Representative on this issue, what we know today about the children + which avenues for justice are there www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Out tomorrow! What more do we know now about the illegal deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children when #Russia invaded #Ukraine? We talked to the Council of Europe’s special representative for the children of Ukraine, @thordiskolbrun.bsky.social

Loved speaking to @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social about accountability pathways for Afghanistan, opportunities and limitations. Thank you for having me on. Very excited to have been on @asymmetricalh.bsky.social. Was nervous tbh

#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...

Out now! Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC. Listen here 👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

Out tomorrow We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.

Out Now! In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico. @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

Out now on #Patreon🎙 What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' www.patreon.com/c/Asymmetric...

Out tomorrow What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico? How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined? @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain

Out tomorrow on #Patreon 📣 We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME! We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators

Want to know details of the statute for the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? How will it work? Our main interlocutor is Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s ambassador to The Hague and former prosecutor general. Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.

Coming tomorrow: We are getting our heads around the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. But there’s still a lot of detail to be ironed out. Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.

Check out our special episode, introducing our Bookclub over on #Patreon. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social is one of our occasional contributors there. She recommended and reviewed Michel Trouillot’s Silencing the Past for us. One of her faves Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/bon...

Question to my followers: is anyone working on the intersection of international law/norm contestation and memory politics? Please be in touch if you are...

"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings". www.reuters.com/world/middle...

⚖️ #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...

There’s a lot going on at the ICJ including the return of ‘ghost’ cases. Juliette McIntyre explains what’s going on & looks ahead to the big genocide case coming up on #Myanmar - how will it affect the #Israel case that follows? Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

UN establishes “ongoing independent investigative mechanism to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...

Out tomorrow: Why do states bring cases to the ICJ - even when there’s no jurisdiction? @drnajimagi.bsky.social helps run though the current caseload. Plus with the genocide cases against Myanmar and Israel, are states trying to be useful or just delaying when they make additional interventions?

There are very rare wins for survivors and activists in the current climate. Uplifting to see the establishment of an independent investigative mechanism for #Afghanistan following over 4.5 years of advocacy by Afghan & international civil society. Unsurprisingly, the US has always been opposed.

Also on Monday, the International Court of Justice will kick off three days of hearings over the right to strike for yet another advisory opinion.

Can the largest permanent saltwater lagoon in Europe – Mar Menor in Spain – as the first ecosystem granted legal personhood in Europe in 2022, be represented at the European Court of Human Rights? Our guest Monica Feria-Tinta, explains what the case could mean for climate justice. Episode out now👇

Out tomorrow We are exploring the largest permanent saltwater lagoon in #Europe, Mar Menor in #Spain. Why? Because it’s the first ecosystem to be granted legal personhood in Europe. And now it’s also likely to be the first ecosystem to be represented at the European Court of Human Rights.

My country is made offline and for tens of thousands of young women who connected to learning, to hope, to community, to aspirations through Internet, all of that is gone by the orders of a small group of tyrannical, fearful men. #Afghanistan

Link to the IIMM report. Extensive list of entire villages destroyed to make way for large Border Guard Police compounds, leaving it impossible for those villages to be rebuilt. Clearly shows targeted destruction of #Rohingya villages (intent). iimm.un.org/sites/defaul...

It's a really interesting report, because it focuses on property destruction (i.e. not killing), & the important role this crime plays in #genocide. Tatmadaw has used the #law to prevent #Rohingya from reclaiming their land, just like the Ottoman Turks & Nazis did for Armenians & Jews.

The IIMM has released a report on the destruction of #Rohingya property in #Myanmar, positioning this as #genocide. I spoke to @janethanderson.bsky.social, who covered the report. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...

Russia once again assured the UN that it wants peace, but bombed peaceful cities in Ukraine for 12 hours straight. Four people died in Kyiv, including a nurse and a patient at the cardiology institute. A whole street was destroyed in Petropavlivskyi Borshchagovka.

If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...

How is social media being used to shift public perception around the ICC? Benjie Aquino from Redress explains how disinformation campaigns have - and continue to be - used in the Philippines around the alleged crimes against humanity of former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte.

The gang was all there for #Kabuga at the #IRMCT only to learn it was the last ever hearing in the #ICTY's legendary courtroom 1 where I spent a big chunk of my late twenties with accused Yugoslav war criminals @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social @janethanderson.bsky.social @mollyquell.bsky.social

How is social media being used to shift public perception around the ICC? Benjie Aquino from Redress explains how disinformation campaigns have - and continue to be - used in the Philippines around the alleged crimes against humanity of former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte.

Out now on #Patreon 🎙️ For our September episode of the War Criminals Book Club, we reviewed 'The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and His Son', about war crimes in #Bosnia & a fictional trial at the #ICTY "Everyone came out looking bad" - we agreed👇 www.patreon.com/c/Asymmetric...

Out Tomorrow - With former Filipino President Duterte waiting to stand trial at the ICC, we look at the misinformation initiatives employed during and after his ‘War on Drugs’ campaign in which human rights orgs say over 12,000 Filipinos were murdered.

Yesterday my colleagues and I wrote up the story that was floating around for a few days, lets see what's next www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Out tomorrow on #Patreon 📣 For the War Criminals #BookClub, we watched the 2015 movie 'The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and His Son' and we discussed what was accurate and what wasn't in the depiction of Bosnia, the Netherlands and the processes at the #ICTY

The #ICC's Office of the Prosecutor has released its 'Pre-Confirmation Brief' to accompany the 'Document Containing the Charges' against former President of the #Philippines, Rodrigo Roa #Duterte The PCB is a legal narrative outline of the 'story' of the charges. A short 🧵on the main takeaways:

What an avalanche of problems at the #ICC. Scary. #Accountability #Justice www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

🎯ICYMI - go listen to our latest epsiode where @szarmsky.bsky.social unpacks the challenges of prosecuting harmful online content! asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi... With @janethanderson.bsky.social & @svdberg.bsky.social

Out now! Can international courts adapt to the rise of digital evidence? Sarah Zarmsky argues that if international criminal law is to survive, it must catch up with advances in technology. Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

What are the ethical dilemmas of using digital evidence in international criminal law for the victims and survivors involved? In this week’s podcast, we sit down with Sarah Zarmsky to discuss what she calls “digital harms.” 🎧 Tune in tomorrow!

Former U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin testified Monday as the first defense witness for Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, who is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his country’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.

ICYMI: The ICC held it's first in absentia hearing last week on Joseph Kony — its first-ever indictee, still at large after 20+ years. 🎧 Listen for expert insights from Michael Scharf & @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Great episode on the Kony in absentia proceedings at the International Criminal Court from @asymmetricalh.bsky.social

#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...

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We went through the arguments aired at the extraordinary hearings at the ICC - Joseph Kony faces 39 counts of crimes mainly against women and children. At the media centre we were joined by @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social. Episode out now: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Why is the ICC holding an in absentia hearing against #Uganda’s rebel leader Joseph #Kony? The arrest warrant was issued 20 years ago. He can’t be found. Is the ICC likely to use this new way to remind the world of the alleged crimes against other accused?

My government is now sanctioning three leading Palestinian human rights groups: (1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind; (2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; (3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Utterly disgraceful.