Chopped up with an axe and a heart eaten out: some crimes never die Exactly 30 years ago, in the summer of 1993, a group of rebel soldiers sowed unheard-of terror in the town of Foya, in the small West African country of Liberia, then ravaged by civil war. Here, 450 kilometers north of the […]
For justice in Syria, hope comes from Geneva rather than The Hague We learned on August 16 from the Geneva-based organization Trial International that the Federal Criminal Court had – in its judgement of July 19, 2022, ordered the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) to issue an international arrest warrant for the former Syrian Vice-President […]
War crimes round-up: Switzerland weighs in on elusive quest for justice over Syria Hama massacre Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt” in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court (FCC) revealed this month that an international arrest warrant was launched last year against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s uncle in connection with war crimes […]
War crimes round-up: victims gain hope as ICC reopens Philippines drug war probe Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt” in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on 18 July that it will relaunch its investigations into an anti-drug crackdown in the Philippines that killed thousands of people after rejecting the […]
Steps forward for international law in Ljubljana and Paris May 26, 2023, will go down as an important date in the history of international criminal law. On that day, in Ljubljana, a legal initiative born outside the United Nations framework and supported by 80 States – including Switzerland – resulted in a Convention on International […]
War crimes round-up: Argentina probes Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya, German carmakers hit by Uyghur forced labour complaint Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt” in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. “In Buenos Aires, Argentina, victims are seeking justice against the perpetrators of the atrocities that forced 750,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee Myanmar in 2017. […]
Benjamin Ferencz, a great man whose words are already missed He would have exasperated at Syria’s reintegration into the Arab League, or at Russia’s presidency of the Security Council. This legendary activist for international justice and former Nuremberg prosecutor died in April, aged 103. On May 7, we learned that the Arab League was reintegrating […]
Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt” in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. “Today’s announcement in the Alieu Kosiah case closes the month with a historic development in international justice, becoming the first-ever conviction for crimes against humanity in Switzerland. This ruling is a tribute to the bravery and resilience of several Liberian victims […]
Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt” in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. “This month, the international community lost one of its legends, Benjamin Ferencz. As the last surviving member of the team of prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials, Ferencz would have been pleased with this month’s round-up – particularly the landmark case of […]
Geneva Solutions’s monthly “war criminal hunt”, in collaboration with the Geneva-based NGO Civitas Maxima. The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin was the most striking news of the month. Given that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression of the war in […]
