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Writing in Foreign Policy Magazine last week, Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister and currently president emeritus of the International Crisis Group, declared the ‘end of the argument’ in the debate about stopping genocide and other state-committed atrocities. Read more... | On 20 February 2011, an application was received by the Registry of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) submitted by Mr Youssef Ababou who alleged that his son, Mr Soufiane Ababou, (the “Applicant”) had been forced to join the military in Algeria against his will. The details of the application as summarised by the ACHPR can be found here. Read more... | | Under Article 5(1) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (the “Protocol”), the following are entitled to submit cases to the ACHPR Read more... | Toby Cadman of 9 Bedford Row International appeared on behalf of the Requesting Judicial Authority of Zielona Gora Poland in an extradition appeal before the Administrative Court Read more... | On 19 November, 9BRi held its annual conference on international law. The speakers addressed the audience on current topics in international law, including the ICC Confirmation of Charges Hearing in the case of Muthaura et al; the death and torture of Sergei Magnitsky; the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh; and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Read more... | On Thursday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), declared that Ieng Thirith, the 78-year-old former minister of social affairs in the Khmer Rouge regime, was "not fit to stand trial” on the grounds of her dementia. Read more... | Over the last 20 years, international criminal justice has developed rapidly, and most people see this as a change for the better. Thanks to the labors, however imperfect, of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and of ad-hoc tribunals from Sierra Leone to Cambodia, it has been established that politicians and warlords who commit terrible crimes against the vulnerable can no longer count on impunity.
But a trial now starting in Bangladesh risks making a mockery of that principle.
Read more... | The steady development of international criminal law and of war crimes tribunals in particular over the past 20 years has owed much to the maxim ‘No Peace Without Justice’. But there can be no peace without a winner; and in the aftermath it is the winner who gets to dispense the justice and write the history. All too frequently, the international judicial process has drawn accusations of providing a means of revenge rather than reconciliation. Read more... | Al Jazeera interview with Toby Cadman of 9 Bedford Row International on the current crisis in Syria Read more... |
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