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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...04 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 4, 2013
The US has added Joseph Kony to its war crimes rewards programme and offered a US$5 million reward for his capture, after the recent coup in the Central African Republic forced the suspension of the manhunt for him. The US has moved missile defenses to Guam to respond to North Korea’s nuclear threat, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel labeled a “real and clear danger” to the US and its South-Korean and Japanese allies. Amnesty International has condemned as torture a sentence of paralysis reportedly to be imposed in Saudi Arabia...24 Mar Weekly News Wrap: Monday, March 24, 2014
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Pentagon has reported that the Obama administration is sending about 150 Special Operations troops along with military aircraft to Uganda to help in the search for warlord Joseph Kony. Suspected Boko Haram fighters have detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 20 people. Asia A Chinese court has handed an 18-month jail term to a man who applied to hold a protest on the anniversary of the 1989...27 Apr ICC Watch: An Ugandan NGO Tells the ICC to Butt Out
...has arrogated itself the responsibility to judge the process of the peace talks.There have been accusations that although atrocities have also been committed by the UPDF, the ICC is going to investigate only the LRA. Based on the field work we have done, there are those who want Kony forgiven. There are those who say that justice is when all the people who are in the LRA are brought to justice irrespective of whether they are at the top or not. They make reservations for the children who were abducted...
11 Apr Symposium on Dominic Ongwen Case: Prepare Victims to Receive Reparations
...(like many others) also suffered. We would not have been involved in this if Joseph Kony had not started the war. Everyone was impacted. Women and children have been the most affected and many of them are living with chronic wounds, both physical and psychological which have not healed because the process of getting assistance and compensation has taken a long time. Even our men are suffering but are afraid to speak out about what has happened to them. The decision gives victims hope that they will finally be compensated...01 Aug Emerging Voices: The Preliminary Examinations in Iraq: A Net Loss for the ICC’s Political Capital
...of the State Department’s War Crimes Rewards Program, which offers financial rewards for information leading to the arrest of suspects sought by the ICC (and especially leaders of the Joseph Kony’s Lord Resistance Army). At first glance, these seem to be rather weighty indicators of the evolution of America’s relationship with the Court. The handover of alleged Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda from the American Embassy in Rwanda to the custody of the ICC further supports the notion of the ‘Obama thaw.’ Closer examination, however, shows that the relationship is not...26 Nov ICC Stands Firm: Will Not Retract Uganda Arrest Warrants
The ICC is standing tough in Uganda: The International Criminal Court ruled out Thursday canceling arrest warrants for Ugandan rebel commanders, saying the rebel leaders and not the warrants are the obstacle to peace. “It is time to marginalise, isolate and arrest individuals sought by the court. The international community must give them no support,” ICC Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement. “People such as Joseph Kony or Ahmed Haroun committed unspeakable atrocities; they are a stumbling block to lasting peace and security,” she added. The stalemate continues…...
25 Mar Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: The Lengthy Wait for an Arrest Warrant for the Acting Head of State of Myanmar Before the ICC
...in absentia, which, after the ICC Kony decision, stands as a vivid possibility. And any such hearing will pull together the different efforts taken at the national level – especially the universal jurisdiction cases, as these cases have the potential of international collaboration and engagement with ICC mechanisms. In this “third wave of accountability” in international criminal justice – where national prosecutorial and judicial initiatives in different States and grassroot efforts by different interested parties attempt to fill the vacuum resulting from lack of political will – an arrest warrant...13 Mar Uganda Will Defy ICC: LRA Rebels Will Not Be Turned Over
Somehow, I knew it would come to this. The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, is headed for a confrontation with the international criminal court after saying he will not hand over to The Hague the leaders of his country’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army indicted for war crimes. Museveni said Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and his commanders will instead be brought before “traditional” Ugandan courts – which emphasise apologies and compensation rather than punishment – as part of a deal to end a 21-year civil war marked by the abduction of...