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22 Apr

[Rafael Braga da Silva is a Brazilian-Portuguese criminal and human rights lawyer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in international human rights and criminal law before tribunals including the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals] Introduction Twenty-five years ago, the Portuguese-speaking world was present at the founding of the modern international criminal justice system. Lusophone states...

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30 May

[Lisa Reinsberg is the founding executive director of the International Justice Resource Center, a PhD candidate with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law] Human rights oversight bodies have rejected an unknown number of complaints because individual complainants used language that was insulting or offensive to...

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31 Jul

[Rugenge wa Nciko is an LLB student at Kabarak University Law School, a Kabarak Legal Aid Clinic (CLACLE) board member and a Trainee Editor at the Kabarak Law Review. He was born in the war-torn Eastern DRC and a citizen of DRC and interested in contributing to addressing the human rights and humanitarian situation in his country, across Africa.] International law...

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31 Jan

[Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, within the University of Sydney, researching in the field of international criminal law. Ludmila Stern is a Professor at UNSW in the field of interpreting studies, whose research examines interpreter-mediated communication in complex legal/courtroom settings, including those of war trials in national and international courts.] Conducting atrocity trials in multiple languages is...

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20 Dec

[Dr Anna Dolidze (Twitter: @dolidze_anna) is Research Lead at Rabdan Academy, UAE] Introduction ‘My good friend Roosevelt I don’t know very English, but I know as much as write to you’, wrote a fourteen-year-old Fidel Castro to the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt.   The note carries the degree of cute naiveté, simplicity, and directness that characterize the writings...

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02 Nov

[Justina Uriburu is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.] The question of English-centrism In his memoir titled A Life Beyond Boundaries, Benedict Anderson provides a testimony of his intellectual journey and his experience in academia. He navigates through different dimensions of scholarly life: the rise...

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