Historian. PhD Researcher: University of Amsterdam / NIOD-Institute for War, Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Researching historical narratives in international criminal trials ( #Rwanda / #Cambodia / #ICC)
Lucy Gaynor
#ICC Presidency's statement about the ASP decision to suspend Khan.
It says not much of anything, except:
"The Presidency recalls that the International Criminal Court is one of the most significant achievements of human civilisation."
Quite a 'recollection'.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
#ICC Presidency's statement about the ASP decision to suspend Khan.
It says not much of anything, except:
"The Presidency recalls that the International Criminal Court is one of the most significant achievements of human civilisation."
Quite a 'recollection'.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
Ronald dela Rosa - a Senator in the #Philippines and former police chief under #Duterte - has failed in his attempt to have his #ICC arrest warrant blocked by the country’s Supreme Court
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...
The final #ICTR hearings ever took place last week, after #Kabuga 's death on 16 May. Judge Bonomy described it as "a truly historic milestone": the catchphrase for both the expectations & failures of the entire saga, since his arrest in 2020.
From @mollyquell.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/un-t...
"Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough? If they knew that it would be hard to prove? It’s hard to consider that and not despair."
Academic despair in the 'Age of #AI', from Jay Caspian Kang in @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
“we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment.”
Luqman Saeed, lecturer in economics at Ulster University, on the racist violence ‘In #Belfast’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...
New #Article, now online: ‘Head of State Immunity and the International Criminal Court: Re-Reading the Immunity Debate Through Wight’s Three Traditions’ by Aldo Zammit Borda. doi.org/10.1163/1571...
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Félicien Kabuga, described by many as the ‘mastermind’ behind the Rwandan Genocide has recently died at the age of 93. To learn more about Kabuga’s life, listen to our throwback episode this week.👇
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
16.05.2026
Still in #NL, c.3 years after his trial ended - without a verdict - due to his health, Félicien #Kabuga has died in hospital.
The President of the #ICTR’s successor mechanism ( #IRMCT ) has ordered an inquiry into the death of the Rwandan genocide’s most high profile ex-fugitive.
Senator dela Rosa, whose whereabouts are unknown, is wanted by the ICC for his role in Duterte's bloody 'war on drugs'.
www.aljazeera.com
The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide have held their final session.
At its meeting on 8 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, by qualified majority: made a decision on the disciplinary proceedi...
The Presidency of the International Criminal Court takes note of the decision taken by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute last night to refer the disciplinary proceedings...
The Presidency of the International Criminal Court takes note of the decision taken by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute last night to refer the disciplinary proceedings...
Abstract The enforcement of international criminal law depends on state cooperation, yet persistent disagreements over whether sitting Heads of State from non-parties to the International Criminal Court enjoy immunity from arrest suggest a challenge that doctrinal analysis alone cannot resolve. This article undertakes an interdisciplinary, meta-doctrinal analysis, drawing on Martin Wight’s three traditions of international theory (Realism, Revolutionism and Rationalism) to argue that divergent interpretations of Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute are driven by fundamentally different philosophical ideas about the nature of international society. Applying this framework to state responses to arrest warrants against Al-Bashir, Putin and Netanyahu, the analysis shows how each tradition influences the assumptions on which doctrinal reasoning about the applicable law proceeds, yielding divergent, and mutually exclusive, interpretations. The immunity debate thus emerges as a permanent site of contestation, shaped by competing visions of international order embedded within the Rome Statute itself.
doi.org
What next for Felicien Kabuga, unfit to stand trial for the Rwandan genocide, but possibly facing an alternative procedure never before heard of in international criminal tribunals.
#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...
#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...
Asymmetrical Haircuts
At its meeting on 8 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, by qualified majority: made a decision on the disciplinary proceedi...
At its meeting on 8 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, by qualified majority: made a decision on the disciplinary proceedi...
