Bosco Ntaganda March 4, 2021March 12, 2021 by Wairagala Wakabi Experts and Lawyers Propose Collective Reparations and Cash Awards to Ntaganda Victims …compensation for education, to buy a plot of land, to build a house, or to rebuild the family house destroyed during the attacks in 2003. During the Registry’s consultations, some…
Review of the International Criminal Court January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by Mariana Pena ICC Judicial Elections Reform: Some Progress but Still a Long Way to Go …creative ways to promote their candidates, ranging from online meeting requests to Twitter campaigns and having candidates featured extensively in virtual events. In some cases, those candidates who campaigned most…
Guatemala Trials December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada The Future of War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala …but disappeared, its online archive no longer accessible to the public or to victims of human rights violations. Efforts to derail criminal prosecutions for wartime atrocities (such as the campaign…
Review of the International Criminal Court November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by Jânia Saldanha and Fauzi Hassan Choukr A Place for a Brazilian National at the ICC: Seeking Publicity and Transparency …references to the nomination in the online media (here, here, here, and here). We also found notices of the nomination in the website of the Regional Court of the First…
Review of the International Criminal Court November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by Ibrahim Tommy Assessing the Competence and Process of Nominating Sierra Leone’s Justice Miatta Samba for Election as ICC Judge …in Sierra Leone, or any other country with a system of law analogous to that of Sierra Leone or approved by the JLSC. In the case of appointment to the…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 30, 2020October 5, 2020 by Nelson Camilo Sanchez Flying Low to Reach New Heights? Colombia Candidate to the International Criminal Court …likely that the government has decided to fly under the radar with this nomination. It remains to be seen if states parties will buy it. Colombians won’t. Nelson Camilo Sánchez,…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 by Mariana Pena ICC Elections: Civil Society Questionnaires Released …fill them in. Their responses will be posted online in the coming weeks. The questionnaires take forward a tradition put in place in 2003 under the umbrella of the Coalition…
September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 by Angela Mudukuti Searching for the Next ICC Prosecutor: Where to from here? …vetting exists in some domestic jurisdictions for other positions that require high moral character such as joining the bench. In British Columbia, Canada, judicial candidates are screened and approved by…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 by Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Bangladesh Withdraws Problematic ICC Judicial Nominee Following Civil Society Engagement …the ICC specifying Mr. Haque’s disqualifications for the post of an ICC Judge. The Asian Human Rights Commission issued a public statement while other groups and individuals engaged in online…
Bosco Ntaganda August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Ntaganda Appeals Hearing Rescheduled for October …an online hearing and the challenge of maintaining the confidentiality of the proceedings when parties are pleading from their homes. In the June 5 order postponing the hearing, the Appeals…
