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No Limits for Justice? Universal Jurisdiction and the Case of Former Chadian...
Hissene Habré was President of Chad between 1982 and 1990 and is accused of serious human rights violations during his regime When we talk about justice in conflicts there is a potentially unlimited...
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A Genocide in Northern Uganda? – The ‘Protected Camps’ Policy of 1999 to 2006
One of the 'protected camps' that were established during the LRA conflict in northern Uganda (Photo: http://joshuadysart.com) The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict effectively ended for northern...
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Justice for Sexual Violence and Gender Crimes in Argentina
The following is a guest-post on gender and sexual violence as crimes against humanity and torture in the context of Argentina’s Dirty War by Mariana Rodriguez Pareja and Alia Al-Khatib, who is a human...
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A Disturbing Tale: Canada’s Human Rights Record and Reputation
(Photo: DJKing / Flickr) This past week the United Nations Committee Against Torture released a report into Canada’s human rights record. It wasn’t pretty. The Committee suggested that Canada was...
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Did the Torture Report Just Open the U.S. Up to ICC Prosecution?
Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay (Photo: AP) Does the recent ‘torture report’ on CIA ‘enhanced interrogation methods’ leave US citizens vulnerable to prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC)?...
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John Bolton says Hillary Clinton Would Join the ICC. Is He Right?
Hillary Clinton (Photo: Jim Young / Reuters) In a way, it’s kind of sad. You would think, after all of these years, that former US diplomat John Bolton would get over his almost paranoid fear of the...
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Whatever Happens, the ICC’s Investigation into US Torture in Afghanistan is a...
An American military guard looks over detainee cells at a detention facility near Bagram Air Field.(Photo: Dar Yasin / AP) It was predicted when the US Senate released its so-called ‘Torture Report’. A...
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Canada’s Pursuit of Syria over Torture May be Symbolic. But Here’s Why It...
(Image: Amnesty International / Mohamad Hamdoun) Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the brutal civil war in Syria. The number of atrocities committed over that span is bewildering. In all...
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Keeping the Hope of Justice Alive: Canada and The Netherlands take Syria to...
(Image: Brandan Reynold) For the most part, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has gotten away with it. Rather than being held to account for the countless atrocities his regime has committed against...
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The Shadow of Impunity: Justice for the killing of Baha Mousa and lessons for...
Elizabeth Brown joins JiC for this guest-post on ongoing need for accountability over the death of Baha Mousa and other Iraqis killed in UK detention. Elizabeth is a doctoral researcher in the...
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