Genocide – asymmetrical haircuts: Recent Episodes
Genocide – asymmetrical haircuts
Alette Smeulers talk about the various types of perpetrators and how ordinary citizens can commit mass atrocities.
Challenges of coordinating when collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar with the Head of the UN's IIMM Nick Koumjian.
Ten years on from the Yazidi genocide by IS fighters, we discuss what kind of accountability has been achieved for the thousands of dead and enslaved.
What did the ICJ say about Israel's obligations under the Genocide Convention and the rights that Palestinians in Gaza have to be protected?
All you need to know about this week's blockbuster ICJ hearings, on South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war.
We look back at some of our most thought provoking episodes from 2023 and play you some of the highlights.
Dr. Melanie O'Brien discusses Armenia's judicial moves to stop alleged genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Experts from Canada discuss the state's responsibility for crimes against humanity against indigenous children and the efforts to find the truth.
A new treaty - MLA - has been agreed to get states to investigate and try alleged war criminals
What next for Felicien Kabuga, unfit to stand trial for the Rwandan genocide, but possibly facing an alternative procedure never before heard of in international criminal tribunals.
Janet and Stephanie talk about the methods used by the Russian government for the transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and what legal classifications could apply with international law scholar Yulia Ioffe and war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond
This week the international justice community has been brought together in mourning by the passing of Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz served as the chief prosecutor for the United States Army during the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity part of the Nuremberg Trials. Later in his career Ferencz became a champion for the establishment […]
An ICC arrest warrant for Russia's Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine - quick reactions.
Kate Gibson and Barbora Hola explain why eight men acquitted by the ICTR are stuck in Niger and why international justice is failing them
Self-professed ICJ procedure wonk Juliette McIntyre of the University of South Australia on the slew of interventions in the Ukraine Russia genocide case at the ICJ
UNMICT Prosecutor Serge Brammertz explains how they track fugitives alleged to be behind the Rwanda genocide.
We discuss the myths and realities of Nuremberg with Diane Marie Amann and Francine Hirsch
On the day of Gambia's historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to 'stop the genocide of the Rohingya' Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Center
How is Canada facing up evidence of cultural genocide with the discovery of mass graves at former residential schools for indigenous children?
The Srebrenica massacre is the subject of a highly acclaimed movie Quo vadis, Aida?. We discuss with Alma Mustafić and Emir Suljagić, who were both there, how such a film helps define the image we have of a mass atrocity.
Melanie O'Brien and Ewelina Ochab talk through the evidence of Uighur genocide in the western region of Xinjiang, denied by China. And states' responses and responsibilities.
Janet and Stephanie talk to Yasmin Ullah, Laetitia van Assum and Mike Becker about the impact of the Myanmar coup on accountability efforts for crimes against Rohingya
Janet and Stephanie kick off 2021 with another interview for our Prosecutor Files series. We talked to Robert Petit, one of the five additional candidates for ICC prosecutor
It’s the biggest job in international justice: prosecutor of the ICC. Who will the next one be? Janet and Stephanie talk to candidate Richard Roy.
Fresh developments at both ICC and ICJ on Myanmar, in discussion with Priya Pillai. Plus US sanctions against the ICC prosecutor.
How can the ICC take on alleged crimes against the Uighur Muslim community when China is not a member and would it be a good idea?
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide Janet and Stephanie sit down with Iva Vukusic, Jennifer Trahan and Hikmet Karcic to talk the legacy of the Yugoslavia tribunal and revisionism in Bosnia
Felicien Kabuga, on the run for 25 years and one of the few last alleged masterminds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested, but where will he face trial?
Janet and Stephanie sit down with Kjell Anderson to talk about perpetrators and genocide and the myths that surround both
This week it appeared that ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir might be transferred to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity and genocide for his army's crackdown in Darfur. Janet and Stephanie talk through the latest developments.
Stephanie and Janet chat with Priya Pillai and Melanie O'Brien about the ICJ's order of emergency measures against Myanmar in the Rohingya genocide case
Myanmar activists explain why they do their work and what it's like behind the scenes explaining The Hague to victim communities.
This has been extraordinary week at the International Court of Justice where lawyers argued about Gambia's request for provisional measures against Myanmar under the Genocide Convention to protect the Rohingya muslim minority.
What people don’t get about International Court of Justice - the ICJ - mechanisms - for those following the Myanmar genocide case.
On the day of Gambia's historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to 'stop the genocide of the Rohingya' Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Center
We're taking a closer look at the kind of highly-charged cases the International Court of Justice has been getting more and more of.