Two years ofnwar in Sudan: The London Ministerial Conference musr act decisively to end the bloodshed open.substack.com/pub/jamestdl...

My appreciation to the Banyamulenge community in Bradford for inviting me last week to join their discussions on truth, justice, reconciliation, and addressing historical and current challenges impacting their community in South Kivu, the Eastern DRC, and worldwide.

Today, we honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda by calling upon states to uphold their #R2P populations at risk of atrocities today. As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities. #WeRemember #Kwibuka31

Delighted fo be quoted in this @cnn.com piece alongside eminent ICL professionals: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/05/a...

‘...the most recent data for the last three months of 2024 immigration statistics show 26 #Afghan women had their claims rejected.’ #Afghanistan #WomanLifeFreedom #AfghanWomen 🔗⬇️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The video is now online! In case you have missed the 4th edition of the Nuremberg Academy Lectures "The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600 Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...

This potential "new treaty and the hope it represents is not just a piece of paper: It is a promise to survivors" – Prof. Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in her Nuremberg Academy Lecture at Courtroom 600. Thank you so much for your insights! #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IntlLaw

preventingac.org/blog/f/state... The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, 🇪🇹 , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.

Ok, so this one is the ICJ and this one is the ICC...

I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

Heading to Keele University Politics and International Relations careers day today to talk all-things peacebuilding, democracy, and international law. A visual representation of how today willl go:

The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink I will now be posting blogs solely through Substack! Please consider subscribing: open.substack.com/pub/jamestdl...

Carolina Silvestre joins joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director. thedutylegacy.com/tdl-news/f/c...

#HRC58 Side event on reparations for #Ukraine. Commissioner Pablo de Greiff: 'I beg the international community to make itself much more present in providing assistance and cooperation in those [non-judicial] dimensions of accountability, which for the victims are unpostponable.'

📣🇭🇹 We've joined 60+ CSOs from around the globe to demand that #Haiti's President Jean take immediate corrective action to safeguard the rights of women and girls by fully implementing the Policy Framework for an Effective and Equitable Transition. 👀⬇️ www.globalr2p.org/publications...

ACADEMIC/ ICL LAWYERS WANTED FOR INTERVIEW: One of my team is looking for interviewees for her LLM project at Leiden University on "Challenging the Hierarchy of Criminal Justice: Civil Society, People’s Tribunals, and Victim-Centered Accountability in International Law".. cont... 1/2

This is not neutral ‘peacekeeping’ that has anyway a bad reputation everywhere. Besides, when the West has been heavily arming Ukraine, Russia will understandably not accept Western boots on ground. No more than West accepting N.Korean & Iranian boots on other side. aje.io/ep3m8q

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Can ae take a minute to appreciate the sunset earlier tongiht. Not edited!

#UK police received 1st report that Mugambe was holding a "slave" in Feb '23. Mugambe got a visa for the young woman, alleging she'd be paid/employed by the #Uganda Embassy's Deputy High Commissioner, but picked her up from airport & drove her to Oxfordshire, forcing her to work as a nanny & maid.

Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink | @justiceinfo.bsky.social | www.justiceinfo.net/en/142825-du...

What is it about peacekeepers - whether African Union here in Somalia or UN peacekeepers elsewhere abusing populations they supposedly protect? Yet more codes of conduct & so-called institutional development not enough www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

The ICC Prosecutor's arrest warrant application for Duterte is now available: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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"The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the arrest and transfer of the suspect Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte" www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

#Duterte is in the custody of the #ICC - accused of the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, and rape. For all the criticisms (including my own) of the prosecutor’s strategy of ‘performatively’ going after big names - not many would have predicted this. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

We only rate dogs. This is a very cuddly croissant. We understand the confusion between puppies and pastries, but please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10

First time I've watched PMQs for a while. Won't be making that mistake again.

Following cuts to USAID, the scholarships of 82 Afghan women pursuing further education in Oman have been ended and they face returning to Afghanistan. I wrote to the Education Secretary urging her to work with UK universities to see if the students could continue their studies here.

Incredible news. Despite all of the scepticism of arrest warrants and their execution, the arrest of Duerte on charges of CAH is quite incredible.

I was honoured to join former Afghanistan Diplomst @sadiqaminiafg.bsky.social for a wide-ranging discussion on the crisis in #Afghanistan, where we discussed Taliban rule, global response & what's next for Afghan people. Listen below 🎧👇

Yesterday, on Commonwealth Day I had the pleasure of hosting The Congress of Nations and States, a coalition of groups seeking recognition and justice for genocide and atrocity crimes. Many thanks to @duffieldrosie.bsky.social MP for sponsoring and for those MPs who spoke!

Huge thanks to @duffieldrosie.bsky.social with The Maiden Factor, @womensrightsnet.bsky.social, Tracy Edwards MBE & others, for the powerful event for #IWD2025 today, ‘Giving a Voice to Silenced Women in #Afghanistan’ #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #LetHerLearn #MyVoiceIsNotForbidden #IWD #AccelerateAction

Only a few days left to apply for our Chief Executive vacancy! We're looking for a visionary and collaborative leader at this pivotal moment for both the UN and the UK's international engagement. Find out how to apply here: una.org.uk/who-we-are/w... #hiring #chiefexecutive

UNA-UK is looking for it's next Chief Executive. Are you a visionary leader with a track record of affecting change? Committed to collaboration and collective action? Excited to shape grassroots movements in support of the UN? Then this could be for you. ➡️ www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe11915...

The #ICC has put out a call & a link for the submission of #evidence regarding the situation in the #Congo “thousands of persons have been wounded & hundreds killed in and around #Goma, including #civilians #peacekeepers” due to clashes between #DRC forces and #M23 www.icc-cpi.int/drc/call-for...

🚨 Exciting Opportunity for UK Law Students! 🚨 @juristnews.bsky.social is on the lookout for talented undergraduates, postgraduates, or research law students eager to get published.

History repeating itself again and Congolese civilians will suffer the brunt - Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help M23 rebels seize city www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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I’ve had the lost incredible couple of weeks in Oman resetting, relaxing and taking a break. Looking forward to returning to my desk on Thursday. 🇴🇲

In principle, it isn’t a bad idea for any country to review its foreign aid policies/allocations from time to time. Issue in this context is wider moral one: is foreign aid about helping poor foreigners who need such help, or is it about advancing donor interests? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Our reporters and editors have compiled a list of thirteen humanitarian crises that demand attention in 2025. Read: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4293DdC

JURIST is recruiting US-based law student reporters and correspondents! Apply by January 31 at jurist.org/apply.

"If the ICC is allowed to collapse, it won’t merely be due to American sanctions, but because the Court wasn’t adequately defended, insulated, and supported by its member-states. It is time for the ICC’s real supporters to please stand up." justiceinconflict.org/2025/01/15/t... #ICC

Probsbly my favourite photo from driving thotugh the Omani desert

In this explainer, JURIST Associate Editor Alexis Boddy, a student at City University London, discusses the recent verdict in France's Gisele Pelicot rape trial. www.jurist.org/features/202...