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18 Sep

...until the creation of the NIMs, very few MHs have been provided the resources and bandwidth to fulfil these additional requirements. At the same time, it also appears more and more likely that the same situations of mass violence probed by UN MHs will eventually become “crime scenes” where full-fledged criminal investigations will be carried out by the prosecution authorities of international or national courts. Syria and Myanmar are, perhaps, the most illustrative examples of this, with Syria simultaneously being probed by the UN CoI, the IIIM, and domestic authorities...
18.09.20 | , and |

08 Feb

...(Principles and Guidelines). The Republic of Congo has launched an investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse involving its troops serving as UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR). Middle East and Northern Africa The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is ready to send ground troops to Syria as part of an international coalition to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, a top official has said. Foreign army soldiers who enter Syria without government consent would “return home in wooden coffins“, Syria’s Foreign Minister...
08.02.16 | |

22 Oct

Violence erupted in Beirut after the funeral of the slain intelligence chief, raising fears that Lebanon will be unable to escape the tensions in Syria. Foreign Policy has more here. In Syria itself, violence continues, and Special Envoy Brahimi has once again called for a ceasefire over the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha starting this Thursday. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has told the special envoy to Syria that the weapons flow to rebel forces must stop. Turkey has called for international intervention in Syria. Jordanian officials have claimed that they...
22.10.12 | |

15 Apr

...to Bangladeshi nationality. The Background Bangladesh is entirely foreign to Shamima who is London-born. Yet by the age of 20 she has lost her 3 children and her British nationality. She travelled to Syria in 2015 at the age of just 15, beguiled to be an ISIL bride. After the collapse of the ISIL State she was detained in the Al-Hawl camp in north-east Syria under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Front. Her two elder children had died sometime earlier and her third, a son born in the...
15.04.21 | |

23 Apr

...which Russia and China vetoed resolution after resolution that would have aided the Syrian people.  Both Russia and China argued that each resolution they vetoed was biased against the Syrian regime and would open the door to military intervention and regime change.  However, through detailed analysis Nahlawi shows that this was false.  The UNSC resolutions did not authorize the use of force, and instead outlined non-military measures, or referrals to the ICC.  She rightly accuses Russia and China of being bad actors in these vetoes, abusing their power in bad...
23.04.20 | |

16 Oct

[Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. He returned to Yale in January 2013 after serving for nearly four years as the 22nd Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.] I have been educated by the thoughtful symposium on my new book, The Trump Administration and International Law (Oxford University Press 2018). I am grateful to the committed colleagues who contributed to this Symposium for enlightening me, and deepening my understanding. I especially thank my kind friend Kevin Jon Heller for graciously hosting...
16.10.18 | |

16 Jun

...crime, a private citizen or certain nongovernmental organizations to be a party in the criminal process together with, or instead of, public prosecutors. To see these causal pathways in action, consider the three recent cases in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Anwar Raslan — a former security official in Syrian President Bashir al-Assad’s regime — fled Syria shortly after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War and ultimately settled in Germany in 2014. During this same period, Syrian migrants in Germany organized to promote prosecutions. They created their own nongovernmental...
16.06.22 | , and |

28 Sep

...least two military installations in air strikes in neighbouring Syria, according to the Israeli military. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any attempts to overthrow the government in Syria could lead to a failed state like Iraq or Libya. Seventeen Syrian refugees, including five children, have drowned after their boat sank in Turkish waters on its way to Greece, according to local media reports. Asia Japan, which accepted just 11 asylum seekers out of 5,000 applications last year, will provide about $810 million in aid in response to refugees...
28.09.15 | |

30 Jul

carry the death penalty.” However, Kotey and Elsheikh are not subject to this specific protection because as they were captured in Syria by US-backed forces they are not being extradited from the UK nor from the authority of the UK in Syria, which would come under the State’s (extra-territorial) jurisdiction and engage the UK’s obligations under the ECHR (Sanchez Ramirez v France, Al-Saadoon and Mufdhi v the United Kingdom, and Al-Skeini and Others v the United Kingdom). The UK’s strategy for the abolition of the death penalty lists the US...
30.07.18 | |

16 Oct

[ Jens Iverson is a Researcher for the ‘Jus Post Bellum’ project at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, part of the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden.] The debate on the legality of a U.S. strike in Syrian territory is unlikely to produce consensus, in part because those involved in the debate take fundamentally different approaches to international law. Unless the underlying commitments of each approach are brought to the foreground, contributors to the debate risk talking past each other. As a result, an important opportunity will...
16.10.13 | |

27 Sep

As Ken notes below, the draft UN Security Council Resolution regarding the disposition of Syria’s chemical weapons is now available. While it can’t be construed as authorizing the use of force against Syria to ensure compliance without further Security Council action – entirely consistent with the Council’s past practice in Iraq, Kosovo, and elsewhere with slowly escalating Security Council threats and then reality of sanctions it decides to impose – marks an obvious and large step forward in what had, until a few weeks ago, been a seemingly intractable disaster....
27.09.13 | |

02 Jun

...British government is strongly considering providing weapons to rebels in Syria — and that the CIA has already facilitated weapons shipments to the rebels from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. There is no question that that much of the fighting being waged by rebel groups in Syria is perfectly lawful under international humanitarian law. But there is also no question — as the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and Human Rights Watch have richly documented — that rebel groups have also committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity. Unless...
02.06.13 | |