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In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
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Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq

The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a survivor-centered criminal accountability mechanism in Iraq and an enhanced UN archiving system to support any […]
By Bojan Gavrilovic (for Justice Info)
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Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump scuffle as they wait for a verdict in Trump's hush money criminal trial outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024 in New York City.

Pursuing universal jurisdiction on the eve of Trump’s era

Drawings of Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero, two Colombian writers.

Writing about crimes you can’t forget

In Syria, after the fall of Assad, the search for the disappeared often begins in mass graves. Photo: People digging at the bottom of a deep mass grave while children watch from above.

Syria: getting it right in the search for the disappeared

In Liberia, a statue of Prince Y. Johnson has been erected in front of apartment blocks. A group of young people surround it, some sitting on the pedestal.

Prince Y. Johnson: The Great Escape 

International justice for Bashar al-Assad's crimes in Syria. Photo: Broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad next to documents.

“We will follow them wherever they will go”

ICC & Syria - An aerial photo shows people gathering around Saydnaya prison in Syria.

Syria opens its prisons, ICC’s ASP closes its doors

Norway on the road to reconciliation with the Sami indigenous peoples, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. Photo : traditional dwellings of the Sami people - set up in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament.

The beginning of Norway’s reconciliation process

Israel & Palestine - ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. Photo: Palestinians walk on a dirt road lined with rubble from destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

After the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant

JEP and Transitional Justice in Colombia. Photo: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla fighters prepare to be demobilized following the signing of the peace agreement.

Colombia: Going back to the original balance of justice

UNITAD teams on the ground in Iraq, helping to find mass graves where victims of the Islamic State organisation were buried. Photo: investigators and technicians (one wearing a waistcoat bearing the United Nations logo) work on a mass grave site.

UNITAD’s unfulfilled goals for ISIS accountability in Iraq

Gang stories - Photo: a member of the MS-13 gang behind bars in a prison in El Salvador

Gang stories : another way of looking at violence

Gangs and transitional justice - Photo: Young people take part in a sports event in Marseille's northern suburbs, where violence is rife.

Are gangs a topic for transitional justice?

Women rights in Afghanistan - Veiled women leave a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan

Gender apartheid at the forefront of international justice

Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.

How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative

Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.

Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown

In a street in Boutcha, Ukraine, journalists filmed and photographed burnt corpses being handled by people to move them.

Meet Ukraine’s Evidence Gatherers

Barbed wire fence is pictured at the Lithuanian- Belarusian border in Sadziunai, Lithuania.

Lithuania, Belarus and the ICC

Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia, is having difficulty choosing the head of the war crimes tribunal. Photo: Boakai delivers a speech.

Why it is so hard to appoint a director for Liberia’s war crimes court