The Dutch government, which hosts the International Criminal Court on its territory, says that it plans to vote for the removal of ICC ​prosecutor Karim Khan during next week's special session of the court's 125 ‌member states www.reuters.com/world/nether... #ICC

Canada can do the same to protect the #ICC and its staff 👇 We have the legislation to effectively nullify the effect of sanctions on 🇨🇦 ICC Judge, Kimberly Prost. Foreign Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social and PM @mark-carney.bsky.social have refused to do so. Prost was sanctioned a year ago.

Canada is not a member of the UN Security Council in part bc of its lackluster approach to international law, but it did play a central role in creating the ICC. So, where is its defence of the Court? Is Ottawa’s policy on the ICC really made in Washington, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?

Agreed. A good place to start would be to intervene in the SDNY case brought by Judge Prost and two of her colleagues, against the sanctions Trump imposed against them for doing their jobs.

I find this odd. I don’t think this should be too controversial a position to hold globally to defend the ICC even on a principled stance and not endorsing the work.

The EU calls US threats against the #ICC 'unacceptable'. Canada has yet to say... anything. Will Canada find the basic moral integrity to denounce the Trump regime's latest bout of anti-justice hysteria, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, and @mark-carney.bsky.social? www.euronews.com/2026/07/14/m...

Canada is standing aside as the US seeks to destroy the #ICC, a court 🇨🇦 helped create, & ruin the lives of those who have dedicated their life to combating the worst atrocities. Forget elbows up; where is our spine @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social? We must urgently defend the ICC.

On point 🎯

"We have got additional evidence, strong evidence, linking what is occurring in Darfur with leadership levels. And we are very, very pleased to say that this is a breakthrough for us.” 👀 👀 ICC official says breakthrough made in Darfur investigations: www.reuters.com/world/africa...

What Jason Kenney calls "brilliant" is a horribly inaccurate account of the abolition of slavery 👇 The video he's applauding speaks admiringly of the compensation of enslavers, omitting that enslaved ppl received nothing. And what "Canadian version" does he allude to??

What kind of shameful and callous stupidity is this? Russia has not ended its war, its war crimes, or its illegal occupation of Ukraine. The @iocmedia should stand with the dignity civilians across the world, not their oppressors. theguardian.com/sport/2026/j... #Ukraine

What kind of shameful and callous stupidity is this? Russia has not ended its war, its war crimes, or its illegal occupation of Ukraine. The @iocmedia should stand with the dignity civilians across the world, not their oppressors. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j... #Ukraine

May the AfD never win power so that the memorial remains.

Staggering just how deeply the Memorial to Resistance of the Nazis in Berlin resonates today. Fascism must be resisted, in all of its forms.

“When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake” UEFA’s take on #internationalorder / the #worldcup www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

East meets West. #Berlin

"A country can defend itself against extremism and hate by raising the education rate. If Canada can move it up another notch, we’ll be more resistant to the awful ideas from the U.S., our parties less inclined to choose leaders who echo them." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Three rights organizations have filed a criminal complaint against representatives of Nitro-Chem, a state-owned company in Poland and the largest producer of TNT in NATO, for alleged involvement in international crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. www.fidh.org/en/issues/in...

“We were inside the shelter and felt the shelter shaking – the ceiling and floor, everything.” Russia launches major attack on Kyiv, killing at least 21: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Happy 🇨🇦 Day! My parents came to Canada from communist Europe to forge a better life for their children, & they did. For those of us lucky enough to call Canada home, let's work for truth & reconciliation and the dignity of all. Let's work, every day, to make this great country even greater.

“I’d like to address the 51st state discourse, which I find unsettling & frankly insulting. Canada’s a strong independent nation that’s deep-rooted in decency, and it’s a place that values high ethics and respect unlike the polarized, disrespectful & often now hate-fueled climate that is in the US.”

"The submission names the UAE and other regional supporters of the RSF, including officials and intermediaries from Libya, Ethiopia, Chad, Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda." Senior UAE and regional officials referred to ICC over role in Sudan atrocities www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-... #Darfur

"They appear to be advancing a particular viewpoint while omitting information necessary for a balanced and comprehensive understanding of the subject matter," concluded Auditors. Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ HRC fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status: futureofgood.co/pro-israel-m...

Dong Guangping, a Chinese human-rights activist who escaped China by crossing open seas on a rubber dinghy for 40 hours, has finally arrived in Canada, a destination he’d been trying to reach for more than a decade: theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnpoli #HumanRights

The RCMP has detained a man allegedly involved in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda & charged him with 16 *immigration* related charges. If he was involved in genocide, prosecute him for it. Canada has the laws to do so & is obligated to do so under the Genocide Convention: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The sanctions regime punishes Judges Prost, Bossa and Alapini-Gansou for having done nothing more than... faithfully discharge their judicial offices by rendering decisions with which the administration disagrees." Sanctioned ICC judges sue Trump in New York: www.courthousenews.com/sanctioned-i...

“What Brussels is offering instead is something more insidious: normalisation...It happens incrementally, through granting visas, meeting rooms and the quiet replacement of principle with transaction.” EU faces fierce criticism over plans to host Taliban: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Good 👇 Seven UNIFIL peacekeepers were killed in Lebanon, and over a dozen injured. The gravesites of Canadian peacekeepers were systematically destroyed in Gaza, with no respect for their remains. Hold the perpetrators to account for war crimes.

"This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional." UN Commission finds that between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were killed in Gaza, around 30% of the overall death toll www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #Gaza

"The judgment has been widely welcomed as an important step toward justice", but "declined to qualify the acts as torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and refrained from recognising forced sterilisations as crimes against humanity." www.ejiltalk.org/forced-steri...

Transnational Institute says public money should not go to corporations involved in war crimes, genocide and human rights abuses: pbicanada.org/2026/06/18/t... @pbicanada.bsky.social

Israel’s Military Ad-hoc Court for October 7 is breaking "with all standards of truth-seeking and fair trial enshrined in international human rights law, IHL, and in Israeli criminal law and procedure". www.ejiltalk.org/israels-mili... @ejiltalk.bsky.social

Canadian weapons continue to be sent to actors who use them to commit atrocities. Will the government finally be honest about it and act to end sales - direct or indirect - of weapons to perpetrators & prosecute companies who flout the law? cbc.ca/news/canada/... @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

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New Supreme Court Canada appointment coming 'imminently' as Carney considers 2 top applicants; Glenn Joyal Chief Justice MBKB and Anna Loparco appointed to ABKB in 2019. 'Advisory Board' only recommended 2 candidates. #SCC #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/news/politic...

"International crimes cannot be committed without support networks." A group of Sudanese survivors has asked the #ICC to investigate senior Emirati officials & business figures over alleged backing of Rapid Support Forces atrocities in Darfur: www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudanes... #KeepEyesonSudan

Likud reportedly scraps election campaign highlighting Netanyahu’s close ties to Trump in wake of US-Iran deal www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Remarkable for Vance to say, out loud, that the Trump is the only Head of State in the world that remains "sympathetic to the nation Israel at this moment in time." www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

Fixed it for him.

"Monday’s shocking strike on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is a reminder that Putin... is pursuing a far more ambitious imperial agenda that includes ending Ukrainian independence and extinguishing Ukrainian identity altogether." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain... #Ukraine #WarCrimes

The World Zionist Organization, an organization that works with the Israeli government to help with the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank was on a draft list of entities Ottawa was set to sanction - and then was removed: cbc.ca/news/politic... #WestBank

No mention from PM Carney of the 168 children killed. No mention of international laws violated, incl the UN Charter. No mention of the IRGC ending up stronger than before. No mention of the price of Israel & US illegal wars costing Canadians at the pump & grocery store. "Worth it"? To whom?

Agreed. You can say things that make the Orange Oaf feel flattered (as Carney must, given that’s how you manipulate the guy) but that went too far. Sometimes I wish @mark-carney.bsky.social allowed foreign policy officials to draft his talking points.

Disappointing. Canada should 100% help secure whatever peace is available in the Middle East. But to say that the wars in Iran & Lebanon were "worth it"? The IRGC is stronger, thousands have been killed, & regional peace is more fragile than ever. That's not worth it. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

“We’re thousands of miles away," says Trump about why he doesn't care about the war in Ukraine after setting the Middle East, which is no closer to America, on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/w... #G7

The human right to clean drinking water shouldn't be "progressively realizable". It should be immediately guaranteed. That it still isn't is appalling. Revised legislation missing assertion that First Nations have right to clean drinking water: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnpoli

"Survival has strengthened the regime. Its worst nightmare was a full-scale attempt at regime change by the US and Israel. It happened and failed. The hard men in Tehran who survived have emerged emboldened." www.bbc.com/news/article... #IranWar‌

There was an actual agreement. It was called the JCPOA. Until someone ripped it up.

🚨 The District Court of The Hague has convicted a 58-year-old man of 19 international crimes - including sexual violence - committed in 2013 + 2014 in Syria under the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The man has been sentenced to 26 years’ imprisonment. www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-...

All states have an obligation to work to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. That means holding accountable those companies that lubricate Israeli operations in the West Bank while lining their pockets. My latest at JiC: justiceinconflict.org/2026/06/15/t... #bizhumanrights