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25 May

[Laura Posada-Orjuela is a Colombian lawyer with an LL.M. from McGill University, specializing in international human rights and transitional justice. She served as legal advisor to a commissioner at the Commission for the Verification of Identity and Kinship of Victims of the Patriotic Union (Comisión para la Constatación de Identidad y Parentesco de Víctimas de la Unión Patriótica, UP)] Introduction On March 31, 2026, the mandate of the Commission...

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25 May

[Kostiantyn Davydenko lived in Donetsk and worked in property valuation before the war. He was detained by officers of the FSB in Simferopol and accused of espionage. He remained in captivity from February 11, 2018, until August 24, 2025, after being released through an exchange procedure. After his release, he co-founded the Charitable Foundation "Civilians in Captivity", and he continues...

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25 May

[Ana Cutts Dougherty is a Legal Consultant at REDRESS, an NGO based in London and The Hague that seeks justice and reparation for survivors of serious international crimes and human rights violations. Katya Ravinska is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Alejandro Rodríguez-Díaz is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Julie Bardèche is a Senior Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Lyra Nightingale is a Senior Legal Advisor...

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22 May

[Milena Sterio is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University and Managing Director of the International Law & Policy Group.  Bhavani Fonseka is a human rights defender and transitional justice expert from Sri Lanka. Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals.] Introduction ‘The Court of the...

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22 May

[Kevin Bell is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia) and Adjunct Professor at Monash University.  Goran Lambertz is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of Sweden and former Chancellor of Justice of Sweden.] Introduction ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, sat as an Ecocide Tribunal in Berlin, Germany, during 16-19...

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22 May

[Stephen Rapp is a former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and former international prosecutor at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone tribunals] Introduction by Stephen Rapp ‘The Court of the Citizens of the World organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, sat as an Ecocide Tribunal in Berlin, Germany, during 16-19 February 2026, to hear witnesses and receive documentary evidence. The Prosecution...

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20 May

[Anny Matamoros Pineda is a Doctoral student in public international law at Lund University] One of the central appeals of science fiction lies in its capacity to imagine worlds that move beyond present reality while still remaining consistent with the known laws of the universe. Within this genre, utopian visions serve a deeper function by questioning the inevitability of existing institutions....

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20 May

[Yaroslav Halieiev is a second-year PhD Candidate at the University of Tartu (Estonia)] The Context: Maymulakhin and Markiv v. Ukraine  In June 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) issued a landmark decision in the case of Maymulakhin and Markiv v. Ukraine in which the Court addressed the lack of legal protection for same-sex couples under Ukrainian law. Rooting...

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19 May

[Zahra Jafarbeklou is a researcher in international law based in Iran and an LL.M. candidate at the Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University] Introduction: The Paradox of “Permitted” Isolation The late 2025 snapback mechanism triggered the digital siege stifling Iran’s academic community. On paper, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued General License D-2...

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18 May

[Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol and serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town] The recently adopted “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” (unofficial translation, here) was met with widespread condemnation by governments (e.g., here, here), civil society and human rights groups (e.g., here), the UN High...

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15 May

[Harry Mwesigwa is an LLM candidate in human rights and democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and a research assistant at the Human Rights and Peace Centre, Makerere University] Introduction In March 2025, Uganda deployed its troops to South Sudan at the invitation of the South Sudanese government which requested ‘urgent military support in order to...

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