Dear Readers, The following commentary first ran in a Special Issue of the Legal Eye on the ICC, a regular eLetter produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human rights organisation that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and works with women most affected by the conflict ... Continue reading
April
11
2013
What next for Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui?
Dear readers – please find below a commentary written by Olivia Bueno at the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) in consultation with Congolese activists. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the International Refugee Rights Initiative or of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Four months after being acquitted in the second trial ... Continue reading
March
19
2013
Lawyers Brief ICC on Dutch Asylum Cases
Dutch lawyers representing three individuals who appeared as witnesses before the International Criminal Court (ICC) have filed an amicus brief before the ICC. The lawyers informed Trial Chamber II about the witness’ ongoing asylum proceedings and proceedings about their detention, currently pending before the Dutch Supreme Court. The three witnesses were brought to The Hague ... Continue reading
Dear Readers, The following commentary first ran in a Special Issue of the Legal Eye on the ICC, a regular eLetter produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human rights organization that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and works with women most affected by the conflict ... Continue reading
Dear readers – please find below a commentary written by Olivia Bueno at the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) in consultation with Congolese activists. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the International Refugee Rights Initiative or of the Open Society Justice Initiative. On December 18, 2012, local radio stations, France 24 ... Continue reading
December
17
2012
In Ituri, a Quiet Wait for the Verdict on Ngudjolo
Dear readers – please find below a commentary written by Olivia Bueno at the International Refugee Rights Initiative in consultation with Congolese activists. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the International Refugee Rights Initiative or of the Open Society Justice Initiative. On December 18, 2012, the ... Continue reading
October
23
2012
European Court of Human Rights Dismisses Petition by ICC Witness
On October 9, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made a ruling in the case of Bède Djokaba Lambi Longa against the Netherlands. Mr. Longa, a witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Thomas Lubanga trial, had petitioned the human rights court to hear his case on the unlawfulness of his ... Continue reading
In late September, a Dutch court ruled that three witnesses who testified in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case involving Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui must be released from the ICC detention center while they await the outcome of their Dutch asylum claims. The three witnesses had been detained in the Democratic Republic of ... Continue reading
September
7
2012
Lawyers Bring Petition Against the Dutch State for Unlawful Detention of Congolese Witnesses in ICC Trial
The Dutch state is violating the human rights of three Congolese men who have applied for asylum in the Netherlands, their lawyers say. The men testified before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in defense of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui. Before coming to testify, they had been imprisoned in the Democratic Republic of the ... Continue reading
Judge Van den Wyngaert’s concurrence to the Ngudjolo trial judgement
Dear Readers, The following commentary first ran in a Special Issue of the Legal Eye on the ICC, a regular eLetter produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human rights organisation that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and works with women most affected by the conflict ... Continue reading