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Information on #InternationalJustice that speaks to local audiences as well as #TransitionalJustice experts. www.justiceinfo.net
#Ukraine - Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression:

"I don’t agree that the tribunal is limited by immunity: it can investigate crimes of aggression without restriction..."

- Andrii Kostin (Ambassador of Ukraine, Netherlands)
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#CrimeOfAggression against #Ukraine - “Indeed, the Special Tribunal does not yet exist, but a massive groundwork has already been laid for it to start functioning.”

- Andrii Leshchenko (Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine)
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#ClimateJustice - "The International Court of Justice has set a non-binding standard and a lot of that will now go back to national cases before national courts with binding judgments. And there the law will develop further."

#ICJ

- Dennis van Berkel (Dutch lawyer)
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Bonaire v. the Netherlands: a landmark climate trial:

“We are in court to be heard and for the people to know that we have the same rights as European Dutch citizens.”

- Angelo Vrolijk (resident of Bonaire / Netherlands)

#ClimateJustice #GlobalWarming #IndigenousRights
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#JusticeForGaza - Our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what?

#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The #LafargeTrial opens today in Paris.

“The debates, which the defense can sometimes make technical, must not obscure the real impacts on people who have not been properly protected.”

Cannelle Lavite (ECCHR - @ecchr.bsky.social)

Justice Info will follow this case closely.
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Syria/France - Who is in charge in the Lafarge trial? [infographic]

The French cement manufacturer is suspected of having paid €5 million to armed groups in Syria between 2013 and 2014.

#Lafarge #LafargeTrial
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What is the impact of #ClimateChange on Bonaire*?

“Where we used to work, play, walk, or fish outdoors, it’s now unbearable in the middle of the day”, said Onnie Emerenciana at the opening of a new ‘climate trial’ against the Dutch state.

[1/5] - Thread 👇
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#HasinaTrial - Md Asaduzzaman (Attorney general of Bangladesh): “If we cannot ensure justice, the people of Bangladesh will remain cowardly and spineless in the ruins of history,” he said, adding that he expected “the maximum punishment.”

#SheikhHasina #CrimesAgainstHumanity
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#Gaza - “These companies did contribute to the commission of these crimes, and the documentation of this complicity is unprecedented.”

- Damien Scalia & Elisa Novic, for Justice Info

#WarCrimes #GenocideinGaza
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#Australia - First People’s Assembly's co-chair Rueben Berg, in a speech on the floor of Victoria’s parliament, said: “The time for paternalistic governments making decisions on behalf of our people ends with this treaty. No longer will policies be made about us without us.”

#FirstPeoples
October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#Ukraine : “Sometimes artists try to earn reputation credits on trauma. But sometimes it’s the opposite: powerful artistic actions, as in Banksy’s case, help the world see something important.” - Sofia Martyniuk

Read our article 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151223-ir...

#StreetArt #memory #Irpin
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#Lyba #Kadhafi #Trump #Putin #Airbnb #Bookingcom #Israel #InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #KarimKhan #Bosnia #WarCrimes

Below is our selection of 5 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice.

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October 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For Mohamed Osman (@hrw.org), “it is also important to see the International Criminal Court jurisdiction be expanded to the whole country of Sudan, because these crimes are no longer confined to the Darfur region”.

#InternationalCriminalCourt #Sudan #Darfur
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #Philippines #Italy #Lybia #WarCrimes #Israel #Hamas #ceasefire

Below is our selection of 3 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice.

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October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Some excerpts and quotes from our article on the impacts of oil exploration by #Pluspetrol (based in the Netherlands) on #IndigenousPeoples and the environment in Peru.

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October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#MacharTrial - South Sudan’s Civil Society Forum called for judicial independence, due process & restraint from “political interference or incitement,” noting that the case “will have profound implications for peacebuilding, national healing, reconciliation, & justice for all South Sudanese people.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#ResponsibilityToProtect - "If we had a culture and politics of permanent prevention much earlier, that would change everything. […] The problem is that very often when we raise the alert very early about the possibility of atrocity crimes, people do not take it seriously."

- Mo Bleeker (UN #R2P)
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#genocides #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

“I want every perpetrator to think there's a file on him, or at least to go to bed at night worrying about it.”

- Nicholas Koumjian (Head of IIMM / UN)
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#Rohingya - “What jumps out at me from this report is that this is a pattern that directly echoes previous genocides, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, and current genocides like in Gaza.”

- Melanie O' Brien (Genocide scholar)

#Myanmar #UN
September 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#Myanmar - “I’ve worked on five separate #genocide cases before and this was some of the most compelling evidence I’ve ever seen,” says a former senior member of the NGO Commission for International Justice & Accountability (CIJA).

#Rohingya #UNreport #IIMM
September 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#Duterte: "Justice should have been a Filipino fight. It still can be - but not without a brave and concerted effort."

- Tom Smith (Professor of International Relations)

#InternationalCriminalCourt #JusticeInPhilippines
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"If you think the International Criminal Court’s case against Rodrigo Duterte is just about law, you’re missing the bigger picture. In Manila, the trial lands right in the middle of a recalibrated power game."

- Tom Smith (professor of international relations)

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September 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Is it going to be in vain? […] At the end, this hearing will cause victims a lot of distress, because they will lose trust.”

- Jackline Owacgiu Atingo (Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium)

#InternationalCriminalCourt #Kony #Uganda
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#SouthSudan #RiekMachar #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Philippines #Duterte #InternationalCriminalCourt #SouthAfrica #SteveBiko #SriLanka #WarCrimes #UN

Below is our selection of 4 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice.

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September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM