The Taylor Trial: A Model for International Justice?
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor in court at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/POOL/Michael Kooren) By Chris Stephen The arrival of Naomi...
View ArticlePolitics, not Justice: The Ganic Extradition Case
By Katherine Iliopoulos and Milanka Saponja-Hadzic An attempt by Serbia to have former Bosnian President Ejup Ganic extradited from the UK was rejected by a London magistrate on July 27, 2010. Senior...
View ArticleConflict Minerals and Congo’s Brutal War
A man caries cassiterite, a tin product, on his back on the outskirts of Walikale, Congo, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Violence in the competition for minerals is spiraling out of control in this corner of...
View ArticleTwo Sides to Every Story: Congo and the Rwandan Genocide
A Hutu refugee with open machete wounds on his head stands amidst a group of hundreds of fellow refugees who were surrounded by the Tutsi Army Thursday April 27, 1995, in the school compound of Kibeho,...
View ArticleCambodia: What Next for the Extraordinary Chambers?
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, commonly called the Khmer Rogue Court, in Phnom Penh (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia) By Jessica Winch When Reach...
View ArticleLeahy Amendment Stronger on Paper than Practice in Pakistan
By Ali Chishti “None of the funds made available by this act may be provided to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has...
View ArticleThe International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh – Will Justice Prevail?
Located near Dhaka, this monument is dedicated to the lives lost during the War of Independence from Pakistan in 1971. (Photo courtesy Rasekh Fatmi via flickr) By Kristine A. Huskey Almost 40 years...
View ArticleInternational Council of Jurists Expunges Critique
By Toby M. Cadman June 26, 2011 On June 21, 2011, I attended a conference hosted by the International Council of Jurists upon the invitation of its President, Dr. Aggarwala. The conference was on...
View ArticleBangladesh War Crimes Tribunal: A Near-Justice Experience
Sculpture entitled "Undefeated Bangla" at Dhaka University is a monument to the National Liberation War (photo - Embassy of Bangladesh) By Morris Davis Attorney and specialist in international...
View ArticleThe Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal: Reconciliation or Revenge?
By John Cammegh The steady development of international criminal law and of war crimes tribunals in particular over the past 20 years has owed much to the maxim ‘No Peace Without Justice’. But there...
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