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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
09/10 - ISRAEL, HAMAS AGREE TO HOSTAGE RELEASE, CEASEFIRE DEAL
Israel & Hamas agreed a Gaza ceasefire deal to free the remaining living hostages, in a major step towards ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of people + a humanitarian catastrophe.
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Israel, Hamas agree to hostage release, ceasefire deal
Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed a Gaza ceasefire deal to free the remaining living hostages, in a major step towards ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and unleashed a humani...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
09/10 - ITALY MPS PROTECT MINISTERS FROM TRIAL IN LIBYA CASE
Italy's parliament Thursday blocked attempts to prosecute two senior ministers and a top official over the controversial release of a Libyan official suspected of committing war crimes.
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Italy MPs protect ministers from trial in Libya case
Italy's parliament Thursday blocked attempts to prosecute two senior ministers and a top official over the controversial release of a Libyan official suspected of committing war crimes. Justice Minist...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
10/10 - ICC REJECTS RELEASE BID BY DUTERTE
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, charged with crimes against humanity, will remain in custody after the International Criminal Court rejected a request (defence team) for release on medical grounds.
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Global court rejects release bid by Philippines ex-president
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, charged with crimes against humanity, will remain in custody after the International Criminal Court Friday rejected a request from his defence team for re...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 1d
#InternationalCriminalCourt #Duterte #Philippines #Italy #Lybia #WarCrimes #Israel #Hamas #ceasefire

Below is our selection of 3 important AFP dispatches published this week relating to #InternationalJustice.

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
Article written by Margherita Capacci, our correspondent in The Hague.

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
🇸🇩 #Sudan - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has handed down its judgement against "Ali Kushayb". Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, it offers "some relief" to the victims but remains an isolated act of justice.

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Ali Kushayb, the convicted symbol of crimes in Darfur
Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, offering finally “some relief” to the victims, the judgement handed down on Monday 6 October 2025 by the International Criminal Co...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
In partnership with Asymmetrical Haircuts
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Their guest, Juliette McIntyre, senior lecturer in law at the University of South Australia, provides here listeners with an update on most of the cases we have talked about in Justice Info.
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 2d
⚖️ #InternationalCourtofJustice [podcast] 🎧 - Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the ICJ, this new podcast updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.

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ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool
Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircut updates the practices and techniques ...
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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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.

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 5d
🇷🇼 #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 · 6d
🇸🇩 #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 · 6d
🇵🇪 #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

www.justiceinfo.net/en/150580-an...
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 · 9d
🇨🇩 #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 · 10d
#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 · 10d
🇸🇸 #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 · 12d
#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 · 12d
#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)