Episode 83 – Armenia wages ‘lawfare’ with Melanie O’Brien
Dr. Melanie O’Brien discusses Armenia’s judicial moves to stop alleged genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Tag: Genocide
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
Episode 79 – Kabuga’s Alternative Procedure with Lucy Gaynor
What next for Felicien Kabuga, unfit to stand trial for the Rwandan genocide, but possibly facing an alternative procedure never before heard of in international criminal tribunals.
Episode 78 – Ukraine’s Taken Children with Yulia Ioffe and Nathaniel Raymond
Janet and Stephanie talk about the methods used by the Russian government for the transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and what legal classifications could apply with international law scholar Yulia Ioffe and war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond
Justice Update – Universal Jurisdiction
Universal Jurisdiction cases for atrocity crimes – are they the new norm?
In Memoriam: Benjamin B. Ferencz
This week the international justice community has been brought together in mourning by the passing of Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz served as the chief prosecutor for the United States Army during the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity part of the Nuremberg Trials. Later in his career Ferencz became a champion for the establishment […]
Justice Update – Putin and The Hague
An ICC arrest warrant for Russia’s Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine – quick reactions.
Episode 75 – Failures of Justice with Kate Gibson and Barbora Hola
Kate Gibson and Barbora Hola explain why eight men acquitted by the ICTR are stuck in Niger and why international justice is failing them
Episode 67 – Staging an ICJ intervention with Juliette McIntyre
Self-professed ICJ procedure wonk Juliette McIntyre of the University of South Australia on the slew of interventions in the Ukraine Russia genocide case at the ICJ
Episode 64 – Track and Trace with Serge Brammertz
UNMICT Prosecutor Serge Brammertz explains how they track fugitives alleged to be behind the Rwanda genocide.
Justice Update – First Darfur trial at the ICC
Emma DiNapoli discusses the start of first Darfur trial at the ICC.
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
The Summer Collection – Genocide and Gender with Akila Radhakrishnan
On the day of Gambia’s historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to ‘stop the genocide of the Rohingya’ Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Center
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?
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
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 – 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?
Episode 27- Srebrenica 25: Genocide and Denial with Iva Vukusic, Jennifer Trahan and Hikmet Karcic
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide Janet and Stephanie sit down with Iva Vukusic, Jennifer Trahan and Hikmet Karcic to talk the legacy of the Yugoslavia tribunal and revisionism in Bosnia
Justice Update – Where Will Rwanda’s Genocide Financier Be Tried?
Felicien Kabuga, on the run for 25 years and one of the few last alleged masterminds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested, but where will he face trial?
Episode 23 – Perceptions of Evil with Kjell Anderson
Janet and Stephanie sit down with Kjell Anderson to talk about perpetrators and genocide and the myths that surround both
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 – Myanmar hit for six at the ICJ
Stephanie and Janet chat with Priya Pillai and Melanie O’Brien about the ICJ’s order of emergency measures against Myanmar in the Rohingya genocide case
Episode 16 – Born Activists with Wai Wai Nu, Yasmin Ullah and Myra Dahgaypaw
Myanmar activists explain why they do their work and what it’s like behind the scenes explaining The Hague to victim communities.
Justice Update – ICJ and Myanmar Genocide
This has been extraordinary week at the International Court of Justice where lawyers argued about Gambia’s request for provisional measures against Myanmar under the Genocide Convention to protect the Rohingya muslim minority.
Justice Update – A primer for the Myanmar case with Jens and Joe
What people don’t get about International Court of Justice – the ICJ – mechanisms – for those following the Myanmar genocide case.
Episode 12 – Genocide and Gender with Akila Radhakrishnan
On the day of Gambia’s historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to ‘stop the genocide of the Rohingya’ Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Center
Episode 11 – The Attraction of the World Court with Priya Pillai
We’re taking a closer look at the kind of highly-charged cases the International Court of Justice has been getting more and more of.