Tag Archive for 'Africa'
May 20th, 2013 by Julien Maton
by Doughty Street Chambers and the International Law Programme Date: Thursday 30 May 2013, from 18:00 to 19:30. Venue: Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE. Participants: – Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House – Dr Tiyanjana Maluwa, Associate Dean and Director, Pennsylvania State University – Dr Max [...]
December 3rd, 2012 by Julien Maton
by Max du Plessis Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; Senior Research Associate, International Crime in Africa Programme, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria; Barrister, South Africa; Associate Tenant; Doughty Street Chambers, London It has become fashionable to criticize the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its exclusive focus on African cases. The critical perception of the [...]
October 28th, 2012 by Dina Mahmoud
A recent report by the Robert Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights emphasised the human rights violations taking place in the occupied Western Sahara by the Algerian authorities, and called for urgency in implementing a permanent international mechanism for the protection of the human rights of the Saharan people. In a consultative meeting the day [...]
June 26th, 2012 by Dina Mahmoud
In his judgement delivered on 2 June 2012, Judge Ahmad Refaat, President of the Criminal Court in Cairo, convicted ousted ex-President Hosni Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib Al-Aadly for murder and conspiracy to murder pro-revolutionary protesters in January 2011, and sentenced each of the convicted defendants to life imprisonment. However, the judgement declared that the financial charges [...]
May 9th, 2012 by Dina Mahmoud
In a recent press release, the Arab League confirmed that the second and final delegation of its monitoring mission in Algeria had arrived in the capital city of Algiers on 6 May 2012. This second delegation, along with the first one which arrived 3 days before, is scheduled to complete the final preparations for the imminent parliamentary elections due [...]
March 20th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
A UN report released on 20 March 2012 details serious human rights violations, including killings, disappearances and arbitrary detention, committed in Kinshasa by Congolese and security forces in the context of the 2011 presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The report is based on investigations conducted by the UN [...]
March 17th, 2012 by Julien Maton
Nearly 72,000 people displaced by fighting in northern Mali between the army and Tuareg rebels are living in extremely precarious conditions. People have sought refuge in areas that they feel are safer but ill-suited to this major influx. Safety, hygiene and access to food and drinking water are daily struggles. The International Committee of the Red Cross [...]
March 6th, 2012 by Julien Maton
by Göran Sluiter In this phase of its existence the ICC increasingly and openly struggles with states that challenge the Court and refuse to cooperate with it. This should not come unexpected; a large number of states can lawfully ignore the Court, because they are not a party to the Rome Statute. As far as [...]
February 27th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
By Tessa Barsac The risk of conflicts arising from the inevitable and increasing complexity of interstate relations in Africa, and the acute awareness – driven by the lessons of history – of the need for adequate procedures to prevent and resolve such conflicts, gave rise to new forms of solidarity on the continent. This was [...]
