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22 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
...civilians as well as armed rebels and may amount to war crimes. Ugandan soldiers hunting Lord’s Resistance Army group leader Joseph Kony have killed one of his key bodyguards who earned notoriety for the abduction of children, according to an army spokesman. Over the weekend, over 140 nations met in Geneva to conclude four years of work on a new treaty to reduce exposure to mercury, which is known to have negative health and environmental effects. The ECHR Blog features a commentary on last week’s ECtHR decision in Eweida and...
02 Jul The Use of Benchmarks in the Colombia Situation: An Opportunity for a Victim-Oriented Approach to ICC Complementarity
...victims, especially when directly balanced against a more lenient sentencing regime for their perpetrators. Thus far, the Court has not given victims’ rights and interests a prominent role in admissibility considerations. Concerns raised by victims in the situations in Uganda and Libya on their lack of access to justice, the absence of protective measures, limited possibilities to participate in proceedings and difficulties in obtaining reparations were not addressed by the Pre-Trial Chamber for either being premature (Kony et al ., paras. 47-51) or having already established the inability of the...07 Oct Could the US Prosecute Ugandan Military Officials for Using Child Soldiers?
...into LDUs in late 2004 in Kitgum, Pader and parts of Teso had apparently not been demobilized by October 2007. I don’t know how often UPDF officials visit the US, or how likely a US Attorney would be to arrest a UPDF official who did. But it would be deeply ironic if a UPDF official was ever prosecuted in a US court, given that the ICC has charged Joseph Kony and the other LRA leaders with (inter alia) conscripting child soldiers but ignored crimes committed by the Ugandan government. The...02 Apr The NY Times on the ICC and Darfur
...reconciliation and compensation better justice than prosecution and punishment? In northern Uganda, many tribal groups were against the intervention of the I.C.C. at first. But some of Moreno-Ocampo’s initial enemies, like the northern mayors he was meeting with when I went to visit him in The Hague, subsequently brainstormed with him on how to arrest Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Sudanese intellectuals close to the government are very good at painting pictures of Armageddon to foreigners, insisting that if the international community demands justice it will...31 Jul Emerging Voices: Taking Forced Marriage out of the “Other Inhumane Acts” Box
...than an “other inhumane act” is not simply for legal categorization. Rather, it is to cast a greater spotlight on a crime that has received scant recognition by the international community. As a result this has led to weak criminal enforcement. For instance, the ICC has issued arrest warrants for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and other high-ranking officials of the Lord’s Resistance Army for crimes against humanity, such as sexual slavery, rape, and murder. However, there was no mention of forced marriage in the indictment despite widespread reports. The ICC’s...22 Sep Poor ICC Outreach — Uganda Edition
...Kony. To this day, the ICC has never emerged from under this cloud of apparent bias towards the Museveni Government. Recent events won’t foster much hope that it ever will. Given this history, you would think the Court would go out of its way to make sure people understand that it is not investigating only the LRA. You would be wrong. As I was perusing the ICC website yesterday, I found myself on the page dedicated to the Uganda situation. Other than providing information about ongoing cases, the page simply...