#InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #Philippines #Italy #Lybia #WarCrimes #Israel #Hamas #ceasefire Below is our selection of 3 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

🇸🇩 #Sudan - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has handed down its judgement against "Ali Kushayb". Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, it offers "some relief" to the victims but remains an isolated act of justice. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150750-al...

⚖️ #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...

Some excerpts and quotes from our article on the impacts of oil exploration by #Pluspetrol (based in the Netherlands) on #IndigenousPeoples and the environment in Peru. Thread 1/7 👇

🇷🇼 #Rwanda [opinion] - When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court? #Kabuga by @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/150638-th...

🇸🇩 #Sudan [AFP] - Today, in the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in #Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity. #AliKushayb www.justiceinfo.net/en/150592-ic...

🇵🇪 #Peru - How a OECD Dutch 🇳🇱 panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru. #Pluspetrol #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalJustice #CorporateResponsibility #OECD www.justiceinfo.net/en/150580-an...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from #Frivao, the compensation fund for victims of the Ugandan army in the DRC. #Corruption www.justiceinfo.net/en/150512-dr...

#MacharTrial - South Sudan’s Civil Society Forum called for judicial independence, due process & restraint from “political interference or incitement,” noting that the case “will have profound implications for peacebuilding, national healing, reconciliation, & justice for all South Sudanese people.”

🇸🇸 #SouthSudan [opinion] - Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for #WarCrimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger state. By Jehanne Henry www.justiceinfo.net/en/150462-th...

#ResponsibilityToProtect - "If we had a culture and politics of permanent prevention much earlier, that would change everything. […] The problem is that very often when we raise the alert very early about the possibility of atrocity crimes, people do not take it seriously." - Mo Bleeker (UN #R2P)

#genocides #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity “I want every perpetrator to think there's a file on him, or at least to go to bed at night worrying about it.” - Nicholas Koumjian (Head of IIMM / UN)

#InternationalJustice [interview] - What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect (#R2P) mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere? Mô Bleeker (UN) answers questions from Justice Info. #UnitedNations www.justiceinfo.net/en/150411-mo...

#Rohingya - “What jumps out at me from this report is that this is a pattern that directly echoes previous genocides, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, and current genocides like in Gaza.” - Melanie O' Brien (Genocide scholar) #Myanmar #UN

#Myanmar - “I’ve worked on five separate #genocide cases before and this was some of the most compelling evidence I’ve ever seen,” says a former senior member of the NGO Commission for International Justice & Accountability (CIJA). #Rohingya #UNreport #IIMM

🇲🇲 #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...

🇵🇭 #Philippines [podcast] 🎧 - Benjie Aquino tells how the postponement of the #Duterte trial at the #InternationalCriminalCourt and the uncertainty on the whole process have increased the space for #disinformation, rumors and wild speculations. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150292-du... FYI: @redress.org

🇵🇸 #Palestine [opinion] - Tomorrow, Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address the United Nations's General Assembly, after a UN independent inquiry established that the government of Israel was committing a #GenocideinGaza. Why is this report important? www.justiceinfo.net/en/150253-ge...

🇬🇱 #Greenland [opinion] - On September 24, #Denmark 🇩🇰 will officially apologize to Greenland for the so-called “IUD campaign,” which claimed thousands of victims among Greenlandic women. Against the backdrop of the threat of American annexation. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150175-de...

#Sahel [AFP] - On September 22, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). All three countries are ruled by military juntas supported by Russia. 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/150149-th... #InternationalCriminalCourt

📌 🇨🇴 #Colombia - After 7 years of work and 4 years since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's #TransitionalJustice tribunal – known as the #JEP – finally handed down its first convictions. So what will the future bring? www.justiceinfo.net/en/150107-co...

#Duterte: "Justice should have been a Filipino fight. It still can be - but not without a brave and concerted effort." - Tom Smith (Professor of International Relations) #InternationalCriminalCourt #JusticeInPhilippines

"If you think the International Criminal Court’s case against Rodrigo Duterte is just about law, you’re missing the bigger picture. In Manila, the trial lands right in the middle of a recalibrated power game." - Tom Smith (professor of international relations) Thread 1/6 👇

🇵🇭 #Philippines #ICC [opinion] - Hearings in the case against former Philippines president Rodrigo #Duterte before the International Criminal Court were postponed. Professor Tom Smith explains how the ICC trial could avoid being just a show trial. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150012-ho...

🇽🇰 #Kosovo - James Rubin * was a defence witness this week in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. * former chief spokesman for the US State Department under Madeleine Albright and Clinton www.justiceinfo.net/en/149960-ja...

Colombia - "This week, as the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) hands out its first sentences, the main issue is which lessons, if any, will be learned from existing restorative projects." - Abigail Herrad / Meghan Velotas #RestorativeJustice #JEP

🇵🇸 #Palestine [AFP] - The report published today by the international commission of inquiry established by the UN Human Rights Council finds that Israel is committing #genocide against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149807-ga...

🇨🇴 #Colombia [opinion] - As Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) is about to issue its 2 first sentences on 16 and 18 September, Abigail Herrada and Meghan Velotas examine the restorative aspect of the sanctions. #RestorativeJustice #JEP www.justiceinfo.net/en/149852-co...

“Is it going to be in vain? […] At the end, this hearing will cause victims a lot of distress, because they will lose trust.” - Jackline Owacgiu Atingo (Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium) #InternationalCriminalCourt #Kony #Uganda

🇺🇬 #Uganda #ICC - Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) held an unprecedented hearing against Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan rebel movement Lord's Resistance Army. In the absence of the accused, what was the point? #InternationalCriminalCourt www.justiceinfo.net/en/149784-ko...

#SouthSudan #RiekMachar #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Philippines #Duterte #InternationalCriminalCourt #SouthAfrica #SteveBiko #SriLanka #WarCrimes #UN Below is our selection of 4 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

#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...

#Uganda - “Our dream is to have justice,” says Angel Stella Lanam. “Even in absence of justice, our work will continue majorly in providing livelihood support for the victims, giving medical assistance to victims with bullet wounds still lodged in their bodies...” Thread 1/4 👇

🇺🇬 #Uganda [report] - “Confusing for victims”, the video screening on Joseph #Kony’s case in the Ugandan city Gulu by the #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC), is reopening old wounds of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Victims are still waiting for justice. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149659-th...

“As an institution, they have to survive; the ICC is going through a hard period with sanctions, and states that ignore their obligations, so they need cases that they can deliver.” - Alette Smeulers (professor of criminology) 👉 @alettesmeulers.bsky.social #InternationalCriminalCourt

🇨🇭 #Switzerland - Justice on #UniversalJurisdiction cases continues to go at a snail’s pace, despite the current attorney general’s promises to make them a priority. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149594-sl...

“The Kony confirmation in absentia is a trial run in an important precedent for other bigger cases*.” - Michael Scharf (Professor of International Law) * Like Putin and Netanyahu cases #Uganda #InternationalCriminalCourt

🇺🇬 #Uganda - The case of Joseph Kony, a war criminal facing 39 charges, has been languishing for 20 years in a dusty corner at the #InternationalCriminalCourt in The Hague. But Kony's spirit is resurfacing. Only his spirit, though. Thread 1/4 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/149520-ko...

#UN #WarCrimes #DRCongo #UnitedStates #ICC #Palestine #Sudan #Darfur #CrimesAgainstHumanity #France #Syria #ArrestWarrant #Journalists Below is our selection of 4 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice. Check the thread 👇

🇸🇩 #Sudan - When few international journalists could witness the violence in Sudan, satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above did. Debate surrounding a new type of evidence during the #Lundin trial in Sweden. #WarCrimes www.justiceinfo.net/en/149477-ey...

🇨🇩 #DRCongo - Former justice minister caught by the law. The verdict has been handed down in the Mutamba case, convicted of embezzling $19 million intended for war victims. #Mutamba #Frivao www.justiceinfo.net/en/149425-dr...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - In Odessa, a man who symbolises the grey areas of war is on trial. Former director of the Kherson pre-trial detention centre and victim of the Russians, Ihor Huryakov is being tried for high treason. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149354-ki...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - More than a year after the opening of the in absentia case of former Balakliya mayor Ivan Stolbovyi, accused of high treason, it has made little progress. What Balakliya resident remember about him? www.justiceinfo.net/en/149312-aw...

🇺🇦 #Ukraine - Who defends victims of war crimes in Ukraine and how? What challenges they face? What motivates them when a verdict does not guarantee that victims feel justice has been served? Ukrainian lawyers tell their own stories. #WarCrimes #JusticeInUkraine www.justiceinfo.net/en/149249-th...

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh - One year after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country, her trial for crimes against humanity began before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh in early August. #SheikhHasina #CrimesAgainstHumanity www.justiceinfo.net/en/149180-ba...

🇬🇳 #Guinea - One year after a landmark verdict in the trial of the 2009 massacre at Conakry stadium, an appeals trial remains uncertain. Some are putting their faith in it, some no longer want it, and some are remaining silent. www.justiceinfo.net/en/149119-gu...

Twenty years after the violence of the FARC in Colombia, how the truth (and a little justice) resurfaces bit by bit, while love letters are unearthed from a woman's memory. Read this story now on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/149063-ki... Thread below 👇 1/3

The case of the 'Niger 8' has, with Zigiranyirazo's death, become the 'Niger 5'. Three men have died since 2021. See @justiceinfo.bsky.social from 2022 - www.justiceinfo.net/en/93462-pun... And @asymmetricalh.bsky.social from 2023 - www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

🇨🇴 #Colombia - The extraordinary journey of Abby Reyes and Julie Freitas through Colombia’s #TransitionalJustice to find out about the kidnapping and murder of three US indigenous rights activists by the FARC guerilla in 1999. By @bermudezlievano.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/149063-ki...

How difficult to choose the “Best Of”! Justice Info is 10 years old. For our traditional summer break, we have selected 10 justice stories that have marked this decade. See you on August 25. #InternationalJustice Check out the slideshow on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/148675-10...