Agnes Wanjiru, the British armed forces and the language of silence 
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by Elizabeth Brown
2w ago
Elizabeth Brown In recent years, two prominent British public institutions – the Metropolitan Police and the armed forces – have faced significant criticism regarding their ability to protect women both in the community and within their own organisations. Both have faced a multitude of allegations of bullying, harassment, sexual assault, and inadequate investigatory procedures, within ..read more
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Holding Moscow Accountable: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Aggression in Ukraine – Prospects for and Problems of Prosecution
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by Rachel Kerr
1M ago
On 12 February 2024, WCRG members James Gow and Iva Vukušić offered insights as members of a panel on the quest for justice and accountability for war crimes in Ukraine held at Princeton University. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, a manifest violation of the UN Charter, has been condemned with an overwhelming majority by the UN ..read more
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The Shadow of Impunity: Justice for the killing of Baha Mousa and lessons for Afghanistan
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by Rachel Kerr
6M ago
Elizabeth Brown Twenty years ago, on 15 September 2003, a 26-year-old Iraqi man named Baha Mousa died following catastrophic mistreatment carried out by British soldiers in a detention facility in Basra. The incident spawned a complex web of accountability efforts, including a Royal Military Police investigation, a Court Martial, a judicial review case which ultimately ..read more
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Preventing Patterns of Impunity – Recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine as a Genocide
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by Rachel Kerr
1y ago
Max Dowbenko This article originally appeared on Justice in Conflict. Thank you to Mark Kersten and Justice in Conflict for permission to cross-post here. February 24, 2022, saw the full-scale invasion by Russia of Ukraine, and, with it, a new and far more uncertain era in global security and international law. This is not to ..read more
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Transitional Justice in the former Yugoslavia loses one of its biggest proponents
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by Rachel Kerr
1y ago
On 15 December 2022, Mirko Klarin, the editor of the Sense News Agency, died at the age of 79. Since the news spread, numerous people across the former Yugoslavia and beyond have been sharing just how much he did to advance the process of facing the past in the region. He was in fact, one ..read more
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Never say never? The ICC, Putin and Ukraine
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by Rachel Kerr
1y ago
by Rachel Kerr On 1 March 2022, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, QC, announced that he was able immediately to open an investigation into the situation in Ukraine.  Earlier the same week, Khan had indicated that he was seeking authorisation to do so, and suggested that it could be expedited ..read more
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Putin and the End of ‘Genocide’?
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by Rachel Kerr
1y ago
by James Gow When Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his attack on Ukraine as ‘genocide’ prevention, the hollowness was astounding, the term emptied of meaning. It has become stock for one side to cry ‘genocide’ in pretty much every violent conflict of the past three decades. Those cries usually come from those subject to attack ..read more
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The Mladić Appeal Verdict
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by Rachel Kerr
1y ago
Genocide and the Last Chance for Bosnian Reconciliation By James Gow The Appeals Chamber verdict in the trial of Ratko Mladić is the last chance to secure a guilty verdict of genocide for the events in 1992. Those events were widely labelled ‘genocide’ and actually spawned the creation of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. It has been ..read more
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Peace versus Justice in Colombia
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by Kerry-Luise Prior
1y ago
By Kerry-Luise Prior This article elaborates on the discussion around peace versus justice within the setting of the Colombian armed conflict. To begin with, it is important to look at the extent and the context of the conflict. The first section of the chapter lays out the scale of the conflict, in terms of numbers ..read more
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Assessing the ICTY’s legacy
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by Bintou Sy
1y ago
Last week (22-24 June 2017), Sarajevo hosted the ICTY Legacy Dialogues Conference, organized by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in order to discuss what it had accomplished before it closes its doors this December. After two decades, 161 accused, a number of complex trials finished, and with zero fugitives remaining, over ..read more
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