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...

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

Today is the 3rd day of the trial. You can follow the live stream (with English simultaneous interpretation) here: streams.nfgd.nl/onderzoek-pe... the Court is focusing on charges of human trafficking and extortion (it's alleged that family members had to pay ransom to get their relatives released).

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.

A few words on an important new book by Olivera Simic observer.co.uk/culture/book...

British Army ends controversial use of white phosphorus in Kenya. Questions of accountability and compensation linger aoav.org.uk/2025/british...

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 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

#Sudan Since seizing the city of El Fasher just last week, after an extensive siege and bombardment, the #paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of the ethnically motivated mass killing of more than 2,000 unarmed civilians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

4 more strikes today, killing 14 more people, with one survivor left to the Mexicans to deal with - this ongoing campaign of extra-judicial killing flagrantly violates international law and reflects a notorious disregard for the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

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...

My thread on the #ICJ's AO ruling. #Israel has been hammered, its obligations under treaty law & CIL made clear. Honestly, nothing surprising, just the ICJ confirming #intlaw obligations. But plenty of noting of Israel's violations of intLaw. Sebutinde out in the cold as was expected.

#Israel prohibited from taking actions contrary to obligations under UN Charter & CPIUN in and regards to OPT. Must allow free movement of UN personnel so they can carry out their mandated activities.

ICERD, ICCPR, ICESCR, CEDAW, CAT, CROC, CRPD all relevant!! #ICJ says #humanRights obligations outside its own territory, esp in OT applies with respect to all these treaties. CIL also applies. Wide range of human rights apply & are relevant to OPT pop'n. All alongside #IHL occupation obligations.

#Israel has positive obligation to respect & fulfil #humanRights of OT pop'n even in times of armed conflict. Doing so has been assisted by UN incl #UNRWA, so diminishment of UN ability means Israel's obligations increase.

All occupied persons must be respected & humanely treated. Rights incl right to life, right to freedom from torture (etc), right to liberty & security, right to freedom of movement, protection of family life, adequate std of living, enjoyment of health, education, freedom from discrimination

#Israel obligated not to use starvation as method of warfare. As OP, Israel has #IHL obligations to respect & fulfil #HumanRights of pop'n.

Starvation is prohibited as method of warfare. #Israel blocked humanitarian aid, preventing relief from entering. Israel's consent to ops of GHF since May 2025 & to other ltd humanitarian aid has not signfiicantly alleviated the situation. Local pop'n inadquately supplied.

#Israel must provide supplies essential for survival of pop'n of OT. Art 55-56 API obligations extend beyond #Gaza to other parts of OPT, Not only a positive obligation to provide supplies to pop'n to the fullest extent, & negative obligation not to impede provision of supplies or health services.

Those minutes until you find your child after the kindergarten is shelled. If you need to explain what hell is, this is it. The world's biggest child kidnapper, Putin, hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. There is a fire in the kindergarten.

The top United Nations court is set to give an opinion Wednesday on Israel’s legal obligations to ensure desperately needed humanitarian aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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.

Betald jobbmöjlighet (folkrätt) för juriststudenter i Stockholmsområdet. Dela gärna detta inlägg, särskilt ni som är juristudenter eller har nätverk med studenter i Stockholmsområdet. www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-k...

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...

Meloni’s government in #Italy has just voted to block the prosecution of these 3 officials, who allegedly helped Al-Masri escape an #ICC arrest warrant for crimes committed in #Libya www.politico.eu/article/ital...

Thank you to the lovely Asymmetrical Haircuts team for letting me hyperfixate at them!!

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?

Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof beschuldigd van seksueel misbruik. Nieuw, uitgebreid onderzoek in @nrc.nl: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

A farmer, a prison guard, and a teacher were among residents of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire to speak in a Hague courtroom Tuesday and accuse the Netherlands of not doing enough to protect them from the effects of climate change.

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👇

www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi... With @janethanderson.bsky.social @svdberg.bsky.social #AsymmetricalHaircuts #podcast #pod #internationallaw #internationaljustice #thehague #warcrimes #reporting + #spain #climatejustice #ecthr #pollution #environment #Marmenor

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

🇲🇲 #Myanmar - Today, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM) publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of #Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the #genocide, it says. By @janethanderson.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...

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...

It would appear that Amazon (Web Services) is lining up to help Israel's mass surveillance campaign on Palestinian civilians: "Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform": www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Al-Masri - wanted by the #ICC for crimes committed at Mitiga prison in #Libya -was arrested in January after a football game in #Italy, but released after 48 hours. 3 gov. officials allegedly helped him escape justice & hid secret meetings about it from parliament. www.politico.eu/article/liby...

In this post @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & I trace how the Starmer Government's repeatedly misconstrues its obligations under the Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away with a position that we call "legally illiterate" and "morally indefensible".

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.

A surprise end to the #Kabuga status conference. Judge Bonomy announces that this will be the last time Courtroom 1 at the mechanism, #IRMCT, formerly the #ICTY, will be used as a Courtroom. The last time “this storied and historic courtroom will be used”.

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.

can i crowdsource some research please? if you've ever read something that engages directly with the concept of 'la bonne administration de la justice' or 'good [etc] administration of justice' i'd love to read it

🎯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!

Extroardinary short doco filmed in #Israel, incl a young man about to go fight in #Gaza saying 'people think the children, the men & the women in Gaza are innocent. Bullshit. Everyone has taken part in 7 Oct... No innocents... The children are gonna be terrorists, killers.' youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8?...