Episode 82 – Finally, Venezuela with Marta Valiñas and Joanna Frivet
Marta Valinas and Joanna Frivet on documenting crimes against humanity in Venezuela and analyse how the ICC is moving forward
Tag: Crimes against Humanity
Justice Update – Landmark Lundin trial
A rare case of corporate responsibility for war crimes in Sudan, prosecuted in Sweden against Lundin oil executives.
Summer Collection 2023 – Uncomfortable Justice with Lisa Clifford
Filmmaker Lisa Clifford on the trial of Germain Katanga
Summer Collection 2023 – Canada’s Reckoning with Ry Moran, Fannie Lafontaine, Karine Duhamel and Andrew Woolford
Experts from Canada discuss the state’s responsibility for crimes against humanity against indigenous children and the efforts to find the truth.
Episode 81 – Ljubljana Legal Lobbying with Vaios Koutroulis and Raquel Saveedra
A new treaty – MLA – has been agreed to get states to investigate and try alleged war criminals
Justice Update – Septuagenarian Serbian Spies
The final Hague trial dealing the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Episode 77 – Darfur Roots with Rebecca Hamilton and Tajedin Abdallah Adam
Rebecca Hamilton and Tajedin Abdalla Adam come on the podcast to explain what is going on in Sudan and Darfur and how the International Criminal Court might come into play
Justice Update – Universal Jurisdiction
Universal Jurisdiction cases for atrocity crimes – are they the new norm?
Justice Connection – Kosovo Timewarp
Former Kosovo president is on trial in The Hague – Janet and Stephanie outline the case
Justice Update – Migrant traffickers on trial in Europe
How come two Eritrean men are on trial in Italy and the Netherlands connected to human trafficking in Libya? With Gerben Wilbrink for the Dutch prosecution, Giorgia Righi for the Italians, and Nicole Samson for an ICC perspective.
Episode 72 – Sex Crimes Education with Valerie Oosterveld and Kim-Thuy Seelinger
Conflict related sexual violence and gendered crimes – the basics – discussed by Professors Valerie Oosterveld and Kim-Thuy Seelinger
Justice Update – Ongwen ICC Appeal Reactions
Janet and Stephanie assemble a panoply of lawyers, activists and on-the-ground observers to talk about the Ongwen appeals decision at the ICC
Episode 71 – Catching Dictators with Reed Brody
Reed Brody on his book To Catch a Dictator: how together with victims got justice for former dictator of Chad Hissène Habré
Episode 70 – Ukrainian War Crimes Trials with Ukrainian Judges
Ukrainian judges talk about how the national judiciary is coping with trying war crimes while at war
Justice Update – Kenya Crimes against Humanity
How will Kenya prosecute post electoral crimes against humanity committed in 2017? Kathy Roberts and Maxine Marcus explain
Episode 65 – Deadly Journalism with Almudena Bernabeu
Will accountability for the targeting and killing of journalists ever be possible? We discuss with Almudena Bernabeu.
Justice Update – Awful Anniversaries
The latest on Myanmar Syria and Ukraine accountability.
The Summer Collection 2022 – Why be a Watchdog with Taegin Reisman and Jennifer Easterday (repeat)
Taegin Reisman and Jennifer Easterday on why should we monitor atrocity crimes trials
Episode 60 – Libya and the real EU refugee crisis with Sally Hayden and Marwa Mohamed
Journalist Sally Hayden and Libya human rights defender Marwa Mohamed talk refugee detention centres and crimes against humanity in Libya.
Justice Update – Prison Life in North Korea
Torture and other crimes amounting to crimes against humanity are being committed in the North Korean penal system, says the NGO Korea Future which documents the alleged abuses
Justice Update – First Darfur trial at the ICC
Emma DiNapoli discusses the start of first Darfur trial at the ICC.
Episode 56 – Believing in Guatemalan Women with Brisna Caxaj and Marlies Stappers
How did Guatemalan indigenous women achieve success in a rape case against former paramilitaries with Marlies Stappers and Brisna Caxaj
Episode 53 – Understanding Nuremberg with Diane Marie Amann & Francine Hirsch
We discuss the myths and realities of Nuremberg with Diane Marie Amann and Francine Hirsch
Justice Update – A Colombian Affair
Mariana Casij Peña guides us through the fascinating experiment in transitional justice in Colombia.
Episode 48 – Canada’s Reckoning with Ry Moran, Fannie Lafontaine, Karine Duhamel and Andrew Woolford
How is Canada facing up evidence of cultural genocide with the discovery of mass graves at former residential schools for indigenous children?
Special Episode – Asymmetrical Haircuts presents Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know
The people behind the new podcast – Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know (you can tell they are researchers) – came over to us at Asymmetrical Haircuts to tell us all about it
Justice Update – Afghanistan Victims in Limbo
What’s happening in Afghanistan to human rights defenders, and what’s happening at the ICC in their investigation into war crimes? Janet investigates
Episode 45 – Karim Khan and UNITAD
Incoming ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan talks about justice for Iraqi minorities after his three-year long position as Head of UNITAD.
Justice Update – Darfur at the ICC: Mr “tough fibre” or not?
We discuss the first ever Darfur trial at the ICC, with the confirmation of hearing of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Episode 41 – Fatou Bensouda bows out at the ICC
Janet and Stephanie talk through quotes of the interview Stephanie had with outgoing ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
Justice Update – Sarah Kasande on Ongwen at the ICC
Janet and Stephanie talk to Sarah Kasande about what victim communities in northern Uganda made of Dominic Ongwen’s two hour statement to the ICC ahead of his sentencing
Episode 39 – Cinema Srebrenica with Alma Mustafic and Emir Suljagic
The Srebrenica massacre is the subject of a highly acclaimed movie Quo vadis, Aida?. We discuss with Alma Mustafić and Emir Suljagić, who were both there, how such a film helps define the image we have of a mass atrocity.
Episode 38 – Genocide Gap with Melanie O’Brien and Ewelina Ochab
Melanie O’Brien and Ewelina Ochab talk through the evidence of Uighur genocide in the western region of Xinjiang, denied by China. And states’ responses and responsibilities.
Justice Update – Myanmar on our Minds
Janet and Stephanie talk to Yasmin Ullah, Laetitia van Assum and Mike Becker about the impact of the Myanmar coup on accountability efforts for crimes against Rohingya
Justice Update – Israel Palestine and the ICC
Janet and Stephanie pick through the ICC prosecutor’s announcement that she will open a formal probe into war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories with Chantal Meloni, Sharon Weill and Yael Ronen.
Justice Update – First LRA verdict
Former Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen is found guilty. Horrendous crimes. But his former child soldier status fascinates commentators.
The Prosecutor Files: Robert Petit
Janet and Stephanie kick off 2021 with another interview for our Prosecutor Files series. We talked to Robert Petit, one of the five additional candidates for ICC prosecutor
The Prosecutor Files: Richard Roy
It’s the biggest job in international justice: prosecutor of the ICC. Who will the next one be? Janet and Stephanie talk to candidate Richard Roy.
Justice Update – Double K: Kenya and Kosovo back in The Hague
Catch up with what’s happening at the Kosovo tribunal and in a Kenya bribery case at the ICC.
Episode 30 – Calling Kosovo with Una Hajdari
Janet and Stephanie call Kosovo journalist Una Hajdari to see what the view from Pristina is on a busy few weeks with the first Kosovo court arrests
Justice Update – Myanmar and more
Fresh developments at both ICC and ICJ on Myanmar, in discussion with Priya Pillai. Plus US sanctions against the ICC prosecutor.
Justice Update – Legal Contortions
How can the ICC take on alleged crimes against the Uighur Muslim community when China is not a member and would it be a good idea?
Justice Update – A Small Town in Germany
A German court in Koblenz is hearing a landmark crimes against humanity case against two people alleged to be former Syrian intelligence officials. We spoke to Balkees Jarrah and Sara Kayyali from HRW on this huge news of the first time the Syrian state apparatus is on trial.
Episode 22 – Calling starvation what is is, with Catriona Murdoch
Starving people to win a war is a crime. But what kind of evidence is needed to prosecute it? Barrister Catriona Murdoch explains.
Justice Update: Is Sudan’s Bashir ICC-bound?
This week it appeared that ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir might be transferred to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity and genocide for his army’s crackdown in Darfur.
Janet and Stephanie talk through the latest developments.
Justice Update – Dessert at the ASP
Janet and Stephanie wrap up the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court – the ASP – with help from Emma Bakkum of PILPG, who has been monitoring discussions about a new strategic review.
Episode 1 – Justice on the Cheap, with Celeste Hicks
We discuss the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre with journalist Celeste Hicks