James Joseph
@jamesjoseph.bsky.social
Int’l Law, politics, Atrocity Prevention, Transitional Justice | 🌱 | Director of The Duty Legacy, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hazaras and The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
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James Joseph
@jamesjoseph.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
www.preventingac.org
About me:
Works on transitional justice, human rights, internarional law with various civil society groups.
Interests: atrocity prevention, transitonal justice, bottom-up approaches, justice with and for survivors.
Director of www.thedutylegacy.com and www.preventingac.org.
Works on transitional justice, human rights, internarional law with various civil society groups.
Interests: atrocity prevention, transitonal justice, bottom-up approaches, justice with and for survivors.
Director of www.thedutylegacy.com and www.preventingac.org.
Two years ofnwar in Sudan: The London Ministerial Conference musr act decisively to end the bloodshed
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Two Years of War in Sudan – The London Ministerial Conference must act decisively to end the bloodshed
Without a robust justice framework and Sudanese CSO involvement, The London Conference will fail to bring peace.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Two years ofnwar in Sudan: The London Ministerial Conference musr act decisively to end the bloodshed
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My appreciation to the Banyamulenge community in Bradford for inviting me last week to join their discussions on truth, justice, reconciliation, and addressing historical and current challenges impacting their community in South Kivu, the Eastern DRC, and worldwide.
April 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My appreciation to the Banyamulenge community in Bradford for inviting me last week to join their discussions on truth, justice, reconciliation, and addressing historical and current challenges impacting their community in South Kivu, the Eastern DRC, and worldwide.
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Today, we honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda by calling upon states to uphold their #R2P populations at risk of atrocities today.
As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities.
#WeRemember #Kwibuka31
As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities.
#WeRemember #Kwibuka31
April 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today, we honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda by calling upon states to uphold their #R2P populations at risk of atrocities today.
As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities.
#WeRemember #Kwibuka31
As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities.
#WeRemember #Kwibuka31
Delighted fo be quoted in this @cnn.com piece alongside eminent ICL professionals:
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April 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Delighted fo be quoted in this @cnn.com piece alongside eminent ICL professionals:
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‘...the most recent data for the last three months of 2024 immigration statistics show 26 #Afghan women had their claims rejected.’
#Afghanistan #WomanLifeFreedom #AfghanWomen
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Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum
Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return
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April 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
‘...the most recent data for the last three months of 2024 immigration statistics show 26 #Afghan women had their claims rejected.’
#Afghanistan #WomanLifeFreedom #AfghanWomen
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#Afghanistan #WomanLifeFreedom #AfghanWomen
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The video is now online! In case you have missed the 4th edition of the Nuremberg Academy Lectures
"The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...
"The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...
April 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The video is now online! In case you have missed the 4th edition of the Nuremberg Academy Lectures
"The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...
"The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...
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This potential "new treaty and the hope it represents is not just a piece of paper: It is a promise to survivors" – Prof. Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in her Nuremberg Academy Lecture at Courtroom 600. Thank you so much for your insights! #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IntlLaw
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This potential "new treaty and the hope it represents is not just a piece of paper: It is a promise to survivors" – Prof. Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in her Nuremberg Academy Lecture at Courtroom 600. Thank you so much for your insights! #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IntlLaw
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The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, 🇪🇹 , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.
The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, 🇪🇹 , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.
Statement on the Situation in Tigray
The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, more than two years after the signing of t...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, 🇪🇹 , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.
The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, 🇪🇹 , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.
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Ok, so this one is the ICJ and this one is the ICC...
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ok, so this one is the ICJ and this one is the ICC...
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I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?
The SRA discontinued @eliothiggins.bsky.social complaint against Discreet Law who represented the warlord Prigozhin. Too many questions remain, so that is why the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition has written to the regulator. Read the letter here: antislapp.uk/2025/03/28/q... #stopSLAPPs 1/3
Questions Unanswered, Concerns Remain: The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition calls for clarity and transparency from the SRA - UK Anti-Slapp Coalition
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition wrote to the SRA seeking answers to a number of outstanding questions regarding its decision-making process as it relates to SLAPPs after it discontinued Eliot Higgins' com...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?
Heading to Keele University Politics and International Relations careers day today to talk all-things peacebuilding, democracy, and international law.
A visual representation of how today willl go:
A visual representation of how today willl go:
March 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Heading to Keele University Politics and International Relations careers day today to talk all-things peacebuilding, democracy, and international law.
A visual representation of how today willl go:
A visual representation of how today willl go:
The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink
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The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink
Tensions Rise in Tigray as Internal Power Struggles and External Pressures Threaten Fragile Peace
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March 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink
I will now be posting blogs solely through Substack! Please consider subscribing:
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I will now be posting blogs solely through Substack! Please consider subscribing:
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Carolina Silvestre joins joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director.
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Carolina Silvestre joins The Duty Legacy Director's Office
Introducing Carolina Silvestre, who joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director. Carolina holds a Law degree from NOVA School of Law (2...
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March 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Carolina Silvestre joins joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director.
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#HRC58 Side event on reparations for #Ukraine.
Commissioner Pablo de Greiff: 'I beg the international community to make itself much more present in providing assistance and cooperation in those [non-judicial] dimensions of accountability, which for the victims are unpostponable.'
Commissioner Pablo de Greiff: 'I beg the international community to make itself much more present in providing assistance and cooperation in those [non-judicial] dimensions of accountability, which for the victims are unpostponable.'
March 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📣🇭🇹 We've joined 60+ CSOs from around the globe to demand that #Haiti's President Jean take immediate corrective action to safeguard the rights of women and girls by fully implementing the Policy Framework for an Effective and Equitable Transition.
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Open Letter to Demand Action for Haiti’s Women and Girls from the New TPC President - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
To His Excellency Fritz Jean President of the Presidential Transitional Council As organizations committed to advancing human rights, justice, and prosperity in Haiti, we take note of your assumption ...
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March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📣🇭🇹 We've joined 60+ CSOs from around the globe to demand that #Haiti's President Jean take immediate corrective action to safeguard the rights of women and girls by fully implementing the Policy Framework for an Effective and Equitable Transition.
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ACADEMIC/ ICL LAWYERS WANTED FOR INTERVIEW:
One of my team is looking for interviewees for her LLM project at Leiden University on "Challenging the Hierarchy of Criminal Justice: Civil Society, People’s Tribunals, and Victim-Centered Accountability in International Law"..
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One of my team is looking for interviewees for her LLM project at Leiden University on "Challenging the Hierarchy of Criminal Justice: Civil Society, People’s Tribunals, and Victim-Centered Accountability in International Law"..
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March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ACADEMIC/ ICL LAWYERS WANTED FOR INTERVIEW:
One of my team is looking for interviewees for her LLM project at Leiden University on "Challenging the Hierarchy of Criminal Justice: Civil Society, People’s Tribunals, and Victim-Centered Accountability in International Law"..
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This is not neutral ‘peacekeeping’ that has anyway a bad reputation everywhere. Besides, when the West has been heavily arming Ukraine, Russia will understandably not accept Western boots on ground. No more than West accepting N.Korean & Iranian boots on other side. aje.io/ep3m8q
A ‘coalition of the willing’ thrashes out how to enforce peace in Ukraine
A senior military source tells Al Jazeera a multinational force needs a ‘maximalist approach’ to deter Russia.
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March 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is not neutral ‘peacekeeping’ that has anyway a bad reputation everywhere. Besides, when the West has been heavily arming Ukraine, Russia will understandably not accept Western boots on ground. No more than West accepting N.Korean & Iranian boots on other side. aje.io/ep3m8q
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
Can ae take a minute to appreciate the sunset earlier tongiht. Not edited!
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Can ae take a minute to appreciate the sunset earlier tongiht. Not edited!
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#UK police received 1st report that Mugambe was holding a "slave" in Feb '23.
Mugambe got a visa for the young woman, alleging she'd be paid/employed by the #Uganda Embassy's Deputy High Commissioner, but picked her up from airport & drove her to Oxfordshire, forcing her to work as a nanny & maid.
Mugambe got a visa for the young woman, alleging she'd be paid/employed by the #Uganda Embassy's Deputy High Commissioner, but picked her up from airport & drove her to Oxfordshire, forcing her to work as a nanny & maid.
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink | @justiceinfo.bsky.social |
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Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink
It was via video link that the former president of the Philippines made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on Friday March 14, 2025. Rodrigo Duterte spoke bri...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink | @justiceinfo.bsky.social |
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What is it about peacekeepers - whether African Union here in Somalia or UN peacekeepers elsewhere abusing populations they supposedly protect? Yet more codes of conduct & so-called institutional development not enough www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
African Union peacekeepers in Somalia accused of widespread abuse
TNH interviewed nearly a dozen people who all alleged that they, or their deceased relatives, were victims of beatings or killings by AU peacekeepers.
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March 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What is it about peacekeepers - whether African Union here in Somalia or UN peacekeepers elsewhere abusing populations they supposedly protect? Yet more codes of conduct & so-called institutional development not enough www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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The ICC Prosecutor's arrest warrant application for Duterte is now available:
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March 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The ICC Prosecutor's arrest warrant application for Duterte is now available:
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I was honoured to join former Afghanistan Diplomst @sadiqaminiafg.bsky.social for a wide-ranging discussion on the crisis in #Afghanistan, where we discussed Taliban rule, global response & what's next for Afghan people.
Listen below 🎧👇
Listen below 🎧👇
In this episode of #RealTalks, I was joined by James Joseph, Director of The Duty Legacy, to discuss #Afghanistan’s crisis, Taliban rule, global responses and what’s next for the Afghan people.
#TalibanAreTerrorists #MakeTalibanTerroristAgain #AfghanistanFreedomNow #USA #UK 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇦🇫 ✌
#TalibanAreTerrorists #MakeTalibanTerroristAgain #AfghanistanFreedomNow #USA #UK 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇦🇫 ✌
March 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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