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crimes against humanity Tag

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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08 May

[Renée Ramona Robinson holds law degrees from Sciences Po, Queen Mary, and Harvard Law. She is a PhD researcher specializing in the paradoxes of international law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a creator and lecturer of law modules at Sciences Po Paris.] In March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the...

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08 May

[Dylan Jesse Andrian is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard University, holding undergraduate law degrees from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Maastricht University. He has worked at the ITLOS Legal Office, the Al Hassan Defence team before the ICC, and has drafted legal opinions for Amnesty International Indonesia, the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, and the Government of Indonesia in the ICJ...

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06 May

[Hakan Kaplankaya is a former Turkish diplomat, lawyer and instituDE member] On 16 December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR” or “the Court”) found violations of Articles 7 and/or 6 § 1 of the Convention in respect of 2,420 applications in Yalçınkaya follow-up cases. The applicants are (perceived) members of the Gülen Group, which has been targeted by the...

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02 Apr

[Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law. Wendy Isaack is Senior Legal Fellow at MADRE. Huma Saeed is Senior Transitional Justice Fellow at Human Rights and Gender Justice...

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27 Mar

[Pablo Gavira-Díaz is a Spanish lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He holds a PhD in public international law from the University of Kiel and currently works as a Project Officer at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy] Introduction The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. forces and other allies from...

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10 Mar

[Metra Mehran, is an activist from Afghanistan, member of the End Gender Apartheid Campaign and Afghanistan Advocacy Specialist at Amnesty International.  Azadah Raz Mohammad is a legal advisor for the End Gender Apartheid Campaign and a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. She is the co-author of the Handbook on Universal Jurisdiction: Holding the Taliban Accountable for International Crimes. Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer...

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28 Jan

[Metra Mehran, is an activist from Afghanistan, member of the End Gender Apartheid Campaign and Afghanistan Advocacy Specialist at Amnesty International.  Venesa Sulimani is a survivor-led advocate from Kosovo, advancing accountability for conflict-related sexual and other gender-based violence and mental health awareness.] Last week, we sat in the United Nations in New York as preparations began on what could become the first global...

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16 Jan

[Christine Ryan is the director of the Crimes against Humanity Project at Columbia Law School. Richard Dicker is the founding director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch. Akshaya Kumar is the Crisis Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch.] On January 19, a process that has been 80 years in the making will get underway at United Nations headquarters in New York....

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23 Dec

[Bruno Biazatti is a doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg, and a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil] On 24 July, the Trial Chamber V (TC-V) of the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) issued its judgment in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona case, convicting both co-defendants of war crimes and...

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