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🇵🇸 #Palestine - It's a battle that is worrying Israel. Since the offensive in #Gaza in 2023, numerous courts, both international and national, have been seized for the alleged crimes committed by Israelis.

#JusticeForGaza: our world map.

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Justice for Gaza: who is doing what?
It's a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, numerous courts, both internationa...
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#TransitionalJustice - “If the U.S. is serious about learning from Afghanistan, it must start by confronting the legacy of impunity it left behind.”

- Huma Saeed (human rights activist / transitional justice expert)
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🇦🇫 #Afghanistan [opinion] - The Afghanistan War Commission established by the 🇺🇸 U.S. Congress has been going on for 4 years. As it embarks on its last round of hearings it must fully address the U.S. failure to provide accountability, says the author.

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Afghanistan War Commission: What’s missing?
The Afghanistan War Commission established by the U.S. Congress has been going on for 4 years. As it embarks on its last round of hearings it must fully address the U.S. failure to provide accountabil...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#HashimThaci - “He was the most presentable. He was the youngest, had a better haircut, better clothes. But he wasn't a military commander.”

- Wesley Clark (ex-NATO commander)

#Kosovo #ThaciTrial
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#Syria - A new trial of 5 Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.

#Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction

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Another Syrian trial in Koblenz – but different
A new trial of five Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany, on November 19th. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starva...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Lafarge trial courtroom diary (part 2): White-Collar Terror Trial

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#Lafarge
Lafarge on Trial - Part 2: White-Collar Terror Trial
In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🇽🇰 #Kosovo - Former NATO commander Wesley Clark testified in the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

#HashimThaci #KosovoSpecialistChambers

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When Wesley Clark comes to the defence
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark testified in the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberatio...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#RightsoftheNature - The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy.

#ClimateJustice

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The rights of nature: reason versus the industrial economy
The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industr...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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#Nuremberg [in-depth interview] - Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images.

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Nuremberg: “Judges were no longer seated in the centre, as the screen was placed there”
Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#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
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🇨🇩 #RDCongo - The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.

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#RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
Lumbala trial: Filling the void
The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#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
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🚨 🇧🇩 #Bangladesh [AFP] - On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by her country's courts for ordering the deadly crackdown on protests that led to her downfall in 2024.

#SheikhHasina #DeathPenalty

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Bangladesh: Hasina sentenced to death
On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by her country's courts for ordering the deadly crackdown on protests that led to her downfall in ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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🇺🇦 #Ukraine 🇪🇺 #Europe - The Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, signed by the European Council, does not yet have its own building, judges or administrative staff. But it mobilizes its Ukrainian actors.

#CrimeOfAggression

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Ukraine’s views on the Special Tribunal for aggression
The Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, signed by the European Council, does not yet have its own building, judges or administrative staff. But it mobilizes its Ukrainian act...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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🇨🇩 #DRCongo [report] - In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.

#LumbalaTrial

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“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people”
In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🇸🇸 #SouthSudan - They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet 25 years later, in the #Lundin trial in Stockholm (Sweden), the oil company’s former security chiefs remember almost nothing.

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#WarCrimes
Lundin: The security chiefs’ failing memories
They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet twenty-five years later, in the Lundin trial in Stockholm, the oil company’s former security chiefs rem...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#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
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#LafargeTrial - In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial.

First episode 👇
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Lafarge on Trial - part 1: A trial unlike any other
In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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#LafargeTrial: Already 5 publications in our special focus.

Justice Info offers exceptional coverage of this extraordinary trial: journalistic insights, analytical op-eds, and monitoring by political science students.

#Lafarge #WarAndBusiness

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War and business: Lafarge in the dock
The Lafarge trial, which is being held from November 4 to December 19, 2025, in a court in Paris, is addressing unusual questions about the criminal liability of companies operating in war zones. The ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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#ClimateJustice [in-depth interview] - The #COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel (Climate Litigation Network), reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has trickled up to the international level.

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“The most conscious step was to take climate change to national courts”
The COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel, co-founder of the Climate Litigation Network, reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has tr...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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
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#Afghanistan [podcast] 🎧 - There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.

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Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan
There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains ho...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#Eritrea👉 #Libya 👉 #Netherlands - Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.

#HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction

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The “quite extraordinary” trial of human trafficker Walid
Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#JusticeForGaza - Our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what?

#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
Justice for Gaza: national and international jurisdictions (and inquiries). ICC, ICJ, UN and many countries in the world.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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
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🇵🇸 #Palestine - It's a battle that is worrying Israel. Since the offensive in #Gaza in 2023, numerous courts, both international and national, have been seized for the alleged crimes committed by Israelis.

#JusticeForGaza: our world map.

www.justiceinfo.net/en/151753-ju...
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what?
It's a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, numerous courts, both internationa...
www.justiceinfo.net
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM