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PUBLICATION DATE:27 May 2024
Witness protection and support in core international crimes and universal jurisdiction cases within international and national jurisdictions. Challenges encountered in witness protection for core international crimes (pre, post and during trial) Necessity to safeguard the safety and security of...
23 May 2024|PRESS RELEASE
Since the genocide against the Tutsi and other massacres against moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994, judicial authorities in Europe, Rwanda and a UN tribunal have opened thousands of formal investigations and court cases against alleged perpetrators. In addition to the over 10 000 individuals tried by...
19 April 2024|PRESS RELEASE
High-level representatives and prosecutors from the United States, the European Union, international organizations, and civil society have been taking stock of the latest developments and cooperation tools for the use of battlefield evidence collected in the context of an armed conflict. During a...
PUBLICATION DATE:15 December 2023
Accountability for ISIL core international crimes committed against the Yazidi Community Prosecution of perpetrators and bringing justice to Yazidi survivors Importance of religious and cultural identity and its relevance in the commission of genocide against the Yazidis Strategies for prosecuting...
17 November 2023|NEWS
The 34th Genocide Network meeting on 15-16 November 2023 focused on the investigation and prosecution of core international crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria. With many ongoing investigations and prosecutions of crimes committed by EU nationals joining ISIL and...
PUBLICATION DATE:19 October 2023
This paper provides a comparative overview of the way in which EU Member States, Genocide Network Observer States and Ukraine have implemented the crime of aggression in their domestic laws. How is the crime of aggression defined in national criminal codes? Have the majority of states adopted the...
PUBLICATION DATE:11 October 2023
This report outlines the most prominent cases in which the European Court of Human Rights evalu­ated the application of Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 7 provides that ‘no one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which...