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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · Mar 7
📌🗺️ More and more countries - Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela - are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without admitting.

Come on board of our world tour of #invaders.
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The invaders return
More and more countries - Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela - are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without adm...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
Our article* may interest you: @asso-sherpa.bsky.social @rightsindevt.bsky.social @eccjorg.bsky.social @globalwitness.org @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @business-humanrights.org @reporterre.net @amisdelaterre.org

* An alternative way to hold companies responsible (Pluspetrol - Peru / Netherlands)
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
To learn more, read our article now on Justice Info: An alternative way to hold companies responsible (Pluspetrol case in Peru) 👇
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An alternative way to hold companies responsible
How a Dutch panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru.
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
7/7 - “I think there's a sense of justice. […] This report gives the message that you cannot just leave with impunity, without any consequence.”

- Campanario Baqué

#InternationalJustice
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
6/7 - “But after so many years where the company always denied its responsibility towards the environmental damage it left, having a neutral, independent body from a European country say that the company is actually responsible for that, it is very good,” Baqué continues.
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
5/7 - The fact that the statement is not binding is “frustrating,” says Campanario Baqué (advisor for the Indigenous federations).
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
4/7 - The Amazon communities also claimed that Pluspetrol left without complying with the #OECD Guidelines and remediating the contamination it caused.
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
3/7 - “The contamination has caused serious environmental impacts and that it is linked to adverse health impacts in local #indigenous populations, ranging from high blood concentrations of carcinogenic metals such as cadmium and lead, to other potential health conditions.”
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
2/7 “Pluspetrol failed to conduct appropriate due diligence to identify its existing impacts & prevent new ones, leading it to cause and contribute to the contamination of at least 1,963 sites with spilled oil, industrial waste, & other pollution from industrial #OilExtraction.”
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
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.

Thread 1/7 👇
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
🇷🇼 #Rwanda [opinion] - When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?

#Kabuga by @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social

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The many endings of the Kabuga trial
When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
🇸🇩 #Sudan [AFP] - Today, in the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in #Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

#AliKushayb

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ICC: Kushayb guilty of crimes against humanity in Darfur
In the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity, on October 6...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
🇵🇪 #Peru - How a OECD Dutch 🇳🇱 panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru.

#Pluspetrol #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalJustice #CorporateResponsibility #OECD

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An alternative way to hold companies responsible
How a Dutch panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru.
www.justiceinfo.net
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 5d
🇨🇩 #DRCongo - An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from #Frivao, the compensation fund for victims of the Ugandan army in the DRC.

#Corruption

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DRC: Should the Victims' Fund be dissolved?
An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from Frivao.
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 6d
#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.”
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 6d
🇸🇸 #SouthSudan [opinion] - Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for #WarCrimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger state.

By Jehanne Henry

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The risky trial of Riek Machar
Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for war crimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 8d
#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)
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 8d
#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)
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 8d
#InternationalJustice [interview] - What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect (#R2P) mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere?

Mô Bleeker (UN) answers questions from Justice Info.

#UnitedNations

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Mô Bleeker: “You don’t have to wait until it’s a genocide to react”
What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere? An interview with the UN Secretary General’s Special Advi...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 9d
FYI: drmelob.bsky.social
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 9d
#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
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 9d
#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
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 9d
🇲🇲 #Myanmar - Today, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM) publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of #Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the #genocide, it says.

By @janethanderson.bsky.social

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Myanmar: Making sure there is no return
On September 29, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the gen...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 12d
🇵🇭 #Philippines [podcast] 🎧 - Benjie Aquino tells how the postponement of the #Duterte trial at the #InternationalCriminalCourt and the uncertainty on the whole process have increased the space for #disinformation, rumors and wild speculations.

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FYI: @redress.org
Duterte, the ICC and the art of disinformation
In this podcast, Benjie Aquino tells how the postponement of the Duterte trial at the ICC and the uncertainty on the whole process have increased the space for disinformation, rumors and wild speculat...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 13d
Professors of International Law Sharon Weill and Olivier de Frouville explain what’s at stake.

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 13d
🇵🇸 #Palestine [opinion] - Tomorrow, Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address the United Nations's General Assembly, after a UN independent inquiry established that the government of Israel was committing a #GenocideinGaza.

Why is this report important?

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Genocide in Gaza: What the UN Commission Says about Facts and Law and Why it Matters
Israel’s Prime Minister is expected to address the UN General Assembly on September 26. A week after a UN independent inquiry established that his government was committing genocide in Gaza.
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