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20 December 2019 by Justice Info
2019 - The international justice year in photos Justice Info is taking a break from December 23 to January 5. But in the meantime, we bring you ten strong images from 2019. Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s money, technological innovations, environmental justice, a victory for [...]
13 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Myanmar and the Rohingya momentum: what did we hear at the Peace Palace this week? This week, in a very high-profile International Court of Justice hearing in Den Haag, Gambia asked the UN court to order Myanmar to stop what they denounced as “an ongoing genocide” of the Rohingya muslim minority. Driven by such [...]
12 December 2019 by Christophe Koessler
Draft treaty on multinationals and human rights struggles Encouraged by the United Nations, States in October resumed talks started five years ago for an international treaty that would oblige multinationals to respect human rights. The project is still under way, even if it is strugglin [...]
9 December 2019 by Janet H. Anderson
Pass the parcel at the ICC The Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court took place last week. It essentially came up with the creation of a 9-member expert committee that should present an “independent strategic review” of the court by [...]
5 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ecocide and environmental crimes draw public attention at the ICC It was perhaps the most-talked about topic in the corridors and surrounding cafés at the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, in The Hague this week. How to address climate change-related violations of human rig [...]
5 December 2019 by Maud Sarliève
Climate change: How to make corporations responsible? ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (3/3) This week, the 25th Conference of Parties, or “COP25”, begins in Madrid. Until December 13th, the 196 State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be discussing [...]
4 December 2019 by Shireen Daft
Environmental destruction is (already) a war crime, but is almost impossible to commit An open letter from 24 scientists, published in the journal Nature in July 2019, calls for the elaboration of a fifth Geneva Convention to protect the environment during armed conflicts. But the destruction of the environment is a [...]
2 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What NGOs expect from the ICC annual meeting Addressing budgetary issues, pushing for an independent expert review, finding a new prosecutor, selecting new judges (especially women), fighting back threats and sanctions by hostile states (especially the U.S.), voicing out the [...]
2 December 2019 by Jojo Mehta
Ecocide as an atrocity crime – an idea whose time is overdue ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (1/3) Ecocide, a Vietnam war ‘veteran’ concept used to describe the destruction caused by Agent Orange, is also the 5th missing element of crime of the Rome Statute, dropped from the International Crim [...]
26 November 2019 by Justice Info
Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEEcocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis A Justice Info debate THE HAGUE, DECEMBER 3, 2019 - 6:30 PM - GRAND CAFÉ UTOPIE CONTEXT     Calls for environmental justice are increasing. Along [...]
15 November 2019 by Julia Crawford
Corporate responsibility in war crimes, a new legal battlefield NGOs suffered a big setback last week when a French court dismissed a charge against Lafarge of complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria. But they are increasingly active in trying to get companies and businessmen prosecuted [...]
11 October 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed [...]
26 August 2019 by Julia Crawford
Do we need an international tribunal for Islamic State? An international tribunal to try foreign fighters of Islamic State (IS) is an idea being discussed by some European States, led by Sweden. But Syrian human rights activists say any international court for Syria should try all part [...]
2 August 2019 by JusticeInfo.net
The best of JusticeInfo, from january to july 2019 In August 2019, JusticeInfo is taking a pause for three weeks. Resumption of publications on August 26th. In the meantime, we have compiled a digest of our best articles, in our eyes and according to our readers, since the beginni [...]
29 July 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Climate law moves from human to nature-centred rights Since the legal victory of the environmental NGO Urgenda against the Dutch state in June 2015, there has been an increase in the number of legal actions around the world to force states to take action against climate change. To wh [...]
19 July 2019 by Luke Moffett
Reparations at the ICC: can it really serve as a model? INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (3/4) Reparations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be seen as an afterthought at the end of trial or, more cynically, as an incentive for victims to testify and support the work of the [...]
18 July 2019 by Jelena Aparac
Is criminal responsibility of companies the next focus for international justice? INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (2/4) So far, States and courts have largely freed companies from direct or indirect responsibility for international crimes. Ending this impunity would restore the balance of power between resourc [...]
16 July 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Drumbl: "Law cannot solve the biggest problems we face" SPECIAL WORLD DAY OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE (1/4) JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Drumbl Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University For twenty years, scholar Mark Drum [...]
18 June 2019 by Kim Thuy Seelinger
Sexual violence in conflict: The bright side behind UN resolution 2467 Last April, advocates against conflict-related sexual violence were consumed by frustration. A hard-line, anti-contraception and anti-abortion U.S. government had forced the United Nations Security Council to silence an essential [...]