Asymmetrical Haircuts
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Two journalists, one haircut, tons of opinions on international justice. Hosted by @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episode 147 – Afghanistan Accountability Avenues with Shaharzad Akbar
What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave u…
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Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
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Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
Listen here 👇
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Loved speaking to @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social about accountability pathways for Afghanistan, opportunities and limitations. Thank you for having me on. Very excited to have been on @asymmetricalh.bsky.social. Was nervous tbh
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Hosts: @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social
Guest : @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social / @rawadari.bsky.social
Hosts: @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social
Guest : @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social / @rawadari.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Loved speaking to @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social about accountability pathways for Afghanistan, opportunities and limitations. Thank you for having me on. Very excited to have been on @asymmetricalh.bsky.social. Was nervous tbh
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#Afghanistan [podcast] 🎧 - There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.
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Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan
There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains ho...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#Afghanistan [podcast] 🎧 - There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151875-fi...
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151875-fi...
Out now!
Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
Listen here 👇
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
Listen here 👇
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 147 – Afghanistan Accountability Avenues with Shaharzad Akbar
What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave u…
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Out now!
Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
Listen here 👇
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.
Listen here 👇
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
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We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.
We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.
We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.
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In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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Episode 146 – When Is It A War? with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg
With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, we ask ‘when is war’ and whet…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War'
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What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War'
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October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Out now on #Patreon🎙
What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War'
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What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War'
www.patreon.com/c/Asymmetric...
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What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico?
How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined?
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain
What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico?
How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined?
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico?
How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined?
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain
What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico?
How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined?
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain
Out tomorrow on #Patreon 📣
We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the
Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME!
We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators
We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the
Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME!
We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Out tomorrow on #Patreon 📣
We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the
Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME!
We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators
We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the
Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME!
We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators
Want to know details of the statute for the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? How will it work? Our main interlocutor is Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s ambassador to The Hague and former prosecutor general.
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Justice Update – Checking in with Ukraine’s New Aggression Tribunal
This week’s Justice Update is all about the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression – created specifically to hold the Russian Federation to account for its war of aggression i…
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October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Want to know details of the statute for the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? How will it work? Our main interlocutor is Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s ambassador to The Hague and former prosecutor general.
Episode out now👇
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Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.
Coming tomorrow: We are getting our heads around the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. But there’s still a lot of detail to be ironed out.
Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.
Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Coming tomorrow: We are getting our heads around the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. But there’s still a lot of detail to be ironed out.
Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.
Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.
Check out our special episode, introducing our Bookclub over on #Patreon. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social is one of our occasional contributors there. She recommended and reviewed Michel Trouillot’s Silencing the Past for us. One of her faves
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Bonus episode – The War Criminals Bookclub on Patreon
This Bonus Episode introduces you to our Patreon feed, where every month we do a bonus episode of the War Criminals Book Club. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Check out our special episode, introducing our Bookclub over on #Patreon. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social is one of our occasional contributors there. She recommended and reviewed Michel Trouillot’s Silencing the Past for us. One of her faves
Episode out now👇
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Question to my followers: is anyone working on the intersection of international law/norm contestation and memory politics? Please be in touch if you are...
October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Question to my followers: is anyone working on the intersection of international law/norm contestation and memory politics? Please be in touch if you are...
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"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
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From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
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Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds
From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing
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October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
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⚖️ #InternationalCourtofJustice [podcast] 🎧 - Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the ICJ, this new podcast updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.
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ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool
Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircut updates the practices and techniques ...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
⚖️ #InternationalCourtofJustice [podcast] 🎧 - Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the ICJ, this new podcast updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/150722-ic...
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There’s a lot going on at the ICJ including the return of ‘ghost’ cases. Juliette McIntyre explains what’s going on & looks ahead to the big genocide case coming up on #Myanmar - how will it affect the #Israel case that follows?
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Episode 145 – Lawfare at the Busiest Court in The Hague with Juliette McIntyre
Juliette McIntyre explains what’s happening at the International Court of Justice and what she’ll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe …
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October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There’s a lot going on at the ICJ including the return of ‘ghost’ cases. Juliette McIntyre explains what’s going on & looks ahead to the big genocide case coming up on #Myanmar - how will it affect the #Israel case that follows?
Episode out now👇
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UN establishes “ongoing independent investigative mechanism to
collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
UN establishes “ongoing independent investigative mechanism to
collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
Out tomorrow: Why do states bring cases to the ICJ - even when there’s no jurisdiction? @drnajimagi.bsky.social helps run though the current caseload. Plus with the genocide cases against Myanmar and Israel, are states trying to be useful or just delaying when they make additional interventions?
October 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Out tomorrow: Why do states bring cases to the ICJ - even when there’s no jurisdiction? @drnajimagi.bsky.social helps run though the current caseload. Plus with the genocide cases against Myanmar and Israel, are states trying to be useful or just delaying when they make additional interventions?
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There are very rare wins for survivors and activists in the current climate. Uplifting to see the establishment of an independent investigative mechanism for #Afghanistan following over 4.5 years of advocacy by Afghan & international civil society. Unsurprisingly, the US has always been opposed.
Rawadari welcomes the establishment of the independent investigative mechanism on Afghanistan that will collect evidence of international crimes and most serious violations of international law.
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There are very rare wins for survivors and activists in the current climate. Uplifting to see the establishment of an independent investigative mechanism for #Afghanistan following over 4.5 years of advocacy by Afghan & international civil society. Unsurprisingly, the US has always been opposed.
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Also on Monday, the International Court of Justice will kick off three days of hearings over the right to strike for yet another advisory opinion.
Justice Update – All you need to know about ICJ Advisory Opinions
Molly Quell gives us the lowdown on Advisory Opinions at the International Court of Justice.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Also on Monday, the International Court of Justice will kick off three days of hearings over the right to strike for yet another advisory opinion.
Can the largest permanent saltwater lagoon in Europe – Mar Menor in Spain – as the first ecosystem granted legal personhood in Europe in 2022, be represented at the European Court of Human Rights? Our guest Monica Feria-Tinta, explains what the case could mean for climate justice.
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Episode 144 – Lady of the Lake with Monica Feria-Tinta
In this episode of our Climate series, we look at Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe to gain legal personhood. A unique place for several reasons, Mar Meno is now also the first natural entit…
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October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Can the largest permanent saltwater lagoon in Europe – Mar Menor in Spain – as the first ecosystem granted legal personhood in Europe in 2022, be represented at the European Court of Human Rights? Our guest Monica Feria-Tinta, explains what the case could mean for climate justice.
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Out tomorrow We are exploring the largest permanent saltwater lagoon in #Europe, Mar Menor in #Spain. Why? Because it’s the first ecosystem to be granted legal personhood in Europe. And now it’s also likely to be the first ecosystem to be represented at the European Court of Human Rights.
October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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My country is made offline and for tens of thousands of young women who connected to learning, to hope, to community, to aspirations through Internet, all of that is gone by the orders of a small group of tyrannical, fearful men. #Afghanistan
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My country is made offline and for tens of thousands of young women who connected to learning, to hope, to community, to aspirations through Internet, all of that is gone by the orders of a small group of tyrannical, fearful men. #Afghanistan
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Link to the IIMM report. Extensive list of entire villages destroyed to make way for large Border Guard Police compounds, leaving it impossible for those villages to be rebuilt. Clearly shows targeted destruction of #Rohingya villages (intent). iimm.un.org/sites/defaul...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Link to the IIMM report. Extensive list of entire villages destroyed to make way for large Border Guard Police compounds, leaving it impossible for those villages to be rebuilt. Clearly shows targeted destruction of #Rohingya villages (intent). iimm.un.org/sites/defaul...
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It's a really interesting report, because it focuses on property destruction (i.e. not killing), & the important role this crime plays in #genocide. Tatmadaw has used the #law to prevent #Rohingya from reclaiming their land, just like the Ottoman Turks & Nazis did for Armenians & Jews.
September 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM