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28 Jul

[Benoit Meystre is a Swiss lawyer and legal advisor at the International Investigations and Litigation Program of TRIAL International.] TRIAL International filed a criminal complaint against Ousman Sonko in 2017. The organisation supported nine plaintiffs who traveled to Switzerland in January 2024 to be heard by the court. It also ensured the regular publication of summaries of the hearings throughout the trial and advocated for the proceedings to...

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24 Jul

“What will Gaza become after genocide?” Nour Jaddah asked this lamentable question, and it is the one I tackle today. I do so for two reasons. First, nearly two years ago, Antonio Guterres bemoaned that Gaza had become a graveyard for children. Little did he know that the graveyard would morph into a killing field, with official death tolls topping...

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24 Jul

[Benazir Jatoi is a human rights lawyer from Pakistan currently living in Bath, UK. She has worked as a consultant with UNFPA and UNWomen, Pakistan.] A buried mobile phone, along with its owner, Refat Radwan, in a shallow sand grave has settled, at least one thing we have been debating for a while. That Israel’s Defence Force operates with immunity until...

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22 Jul

[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University] The Iranian Non-proliferation Problem: Where to Enrich? The main sticking point for a nuclear non-proliferation deal with Iran is domestic uranium enrichment. It seems intractable: but it might not be.  Iran has been clear that it is open to a new deal, but insists it must be able to enrich uranium...

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11 Jul

On June 25, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the President of Ukraine signed an agreement to create a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (STCoA). The tribunal, which will be based on Ukraine's territorial jurisdiction but will have a number of international elements -- and is thus properly categorised as a hybrid...

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30 Jun

[Megan Hirst is ICC victims' representative in the Bangladesh/Myanmar and Afghanistan situations. Marie O'Leary is acting Principal Counsel for the ICC Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD). The views in this post are those of the author alone and do not reflect the views of the ICC. Valeria Babără is Legal Adviser at Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. Danya Chaikel...

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30 Jun

[Megan Hirst is ICC victims' representative in the Bangladesh/Myanmar and Afghanistan situations. Marie O'Leary is acting Principal Counsel for the ICC Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD). The views in this post are those of the author alone and do not reflect the views of the ICC. Valeria Babără is Legal Adviser at Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. Danya Chaikel is the...

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26 Jun

[Dr Alison Bisset is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading School of Law] The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes was adopted in May 2023, creating a previously lacking global framework for inter-state judicial cooperation on international...

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24 Jun

[Isabelle Haßfurther is a senior legal advisor in the International Crimes and Accountability program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). ECCHR has been supporting the reform process and is one of over 80 co-signatories of the Joint Civil Society Statement calling for harmonization of the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression with jurisdiction over the other three core crimes.] In less...

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23 Jun

[Nieves Molina-Clemente is the Chief Adviser for International Law, Human Rights and Tech at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law] Disclaimer: The views reflected in this piece are the opinions of the authors writing in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the views of...

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03 Jun

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Javaid Rehman is Professor of Law at Brunel University of London and former Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018–2024). He is currently Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Law School...

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