A Blog on International Justice
Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly approved the first legally-binding international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that prohibits states from exporting conventional weapons to countries when they know those weapons will be used for genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. The text of the treaty had already been submitted last week, on the last day [...]
by Daniel Robinson* The United Nations (“UN”) Human Rights Council has issued a report warning Israel to cease settlement activity in the West Bank or potentially face legal action at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”). The report, released on 31 January 2013, states that Israel is in violation of international law and calls for both [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted the application of the members of the Bosnian association “Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa ”. The women had lodged an application against the Netherlands following a ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court in April which had granted absolute immunity from prosecution to Dutch UN peacekeepers who were [...]
Last Tuesday, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved the draft Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions. The main aspect of this resolution is that it mentions for the first time gender identity as a characteristic warranting protection from unlawful executions. This resolution comes up for a vote in the Committee every [...]
source: http://truthaholics.wordpress.com/ The Palestinian News & Information agency has announced that the Arab League has demanded the provision of international protection for the Palestinian people, their leaders, land, and destiny; holding the international community fully responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security. At the Council of the Arab League’s extraordinary session at the ministerial level concerning [...]
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 [...]
by Miša Zgonec-Rozej The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) held in its decision of 27 July 2012 that the STL had been lawfully established and that it has jurisdiction to try those accused of committing the 14th February 2005 attack against the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and connected cases. [...]
by David Tolbert When 26-year old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, his act resonated across an entire region and sparked what is known as the Arab Spring. His cry echoed across the world because it was a universal call for justice, basic fairness, and equal treatment. Indeed, [...]
On Tuesday 8 May 2012, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) delivered three Judgments in the cases of former Rwandan military officials, Major Aloys Ntabakuze and Lieutenant Ildephonse Hategekimana, in addition to businessman Gaspard Kanyarukiga. The Appeals Chamber reduced the sentence of Ntabakuze from life to 35 years and affirmed both the [...]
On 28 March, Human Rights Watch released a report: “I Had to Run Away”: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls for “Moral Crimes” in Afghanistan, a study based on fifty eight interviews conducted with women and girls accused of “moral crimes” in Afghanistan, who were detained in three prisons and three juvenile detention facilities in late 2011. [...]
Joakim Dungel (Photo: UN) Date: 25 May 2012, 12:00-15:30pm Venue: Gothenburg University - Faculty of Law, Vasagatan 1, Göteborg (Sweden) Details: A series of lectures on international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights are being held at the Faculty of Law at Gothenburg University in Sweden, in the memory of the University’s alumnus and [...]
On 14 April in New York, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2042, agreeing to deploy a team of up to thirty UN monitors to Syria in order to oversee the fragile ceasefire between the Syrian government and oppositional forces. A team of six UN monitors arrived in Damascus the following day. The first UN Security [...]
Following the resignation of International Co-Investigating Judge Siegfried Blunk in October 2011 and the Reserve Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet in March of this year at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations has emphasised that the Secretary General believes it to be essential [...]