Justice Update – Awful Anniversaries
The latest on Myanmar Syria and Ukraine accountability.
Tag: War Crimes
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
The Summer Collection 2022 – Social Media on Trial with Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska (repeat)
How does evidence from social media lead to a war crimes conviction in Europe? Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska tell us what’s been changing.
Justice Update – Four Ways to Accountability in Ukraine
Accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine with Mykola Gnatovskyy, Kateryna Busol, and Howard Morrison: local prosecution, ICC, a potential new tribunal, and universal jurisdiction.
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.
Episode 59 – When Your Beat Becomes a War Zone with Oksana Kovalenko
Ukrainian journalist Oksana Kovalenko explains how her work has changed during war, against the reality of air raids and petrol shortages.
Episode 58 – War reporting with Danny Kemp
Journalist Danny Kemp recalls finding the dead bodies in Bucha, and discusses the role journalists are playing in reporting war crimes in Ukraine.
Episode 57- International Justice Start-Up Junkie with Klaus Rackwitz
Klaus Rackwitz, a self-confessed start-up junkie, looks back at the beginning of the ICC and the Nuremberg legacy in relation to Ukraine.
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
Justice Update : Sweden and Sudan
We talk to Pax for Peace’s Egbert Wesslink about the Lundin Sudan war crimes case being brought in Sweden
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 47 – Balkan Spies with Iva Vukusic and Marija Ristic
What the verdict on former Serbian Secret Service officials Stanišić and Simatović can tell us about the future of prosecution of war crimes in Serbia.
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 42 – Social Media on Trial with Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska
How does evidence from social media lead to a war crimes conviction in Europe? Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska tell us what’s been changing.
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.
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.
Episode 37 – Liberian Truths with Massa Emilia Washington and Emmanuelle Marchand
War crimes committed in the Liberian civil war is now being litigated via universal jurisdiction trials. Journalist Massa Washington and Emmanuelle Marchand from Civitas Maxima discuss universal jurisdiction cases in Switzerland and Finland.
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
Justice Update – Aussie Rules
A new official report says that that Australian soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan. All of the victims were either civilians or prisoners of war. Rawan Arraf who heads the Australian Centre for International Justice explains what happens next.
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.
Episode 25 – Victims’ Day in Court with Liesbeth Zegveld
Dutch human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld discusses how she manages to get the state to pay compensation to victims of war crimes.
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 – Culture & Conflict
Why is targeting cultural heritage a war crime? In the midst of the Iran – US conflict, international lawyer Polina Levina explains.
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 6 – Dogs of War with Iva Vukusic
For our delve into paramilitaries and the former Yugoslavia, Iva and her research assistant Joy, took us on a walk in a cemetery in The Hague.
Justice Update – Back to School
We’re back from the break and introducing our new Justice Update format where Janet and Stephanie talk current developments in the courts