Read more about the SLP’s work on codifying the crime of gender apartheid ⤵️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/mid...
Yesterday, SLP Deputy Director Nushin Sarkarati and Founder of the Afghanistan Justice Archive Metra Mehran spoke at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social on how human rights groups are fighting the institutional erasure of Afghan women through international law.
Read more about the SLP’s work on codifying the crime of gender apartheid ⤵️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/mid...
"The solution to international law’s credibility crisis is to improve enforcement for all international crimes, even if the crimes are committed by a state against its own population, as in Iran," writes SLP's @elisebaker.bsky.social in the @washingtonpost.com.
Read more:
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The SLP is proud to cosponsor alongside @globaljusticec.bsky.social, Columbia Law School, Asia Justice Coalition, @egacampaign.bsky.social, @amnesty.org, Washington University Law School, @4genderjustice.org, and the @asilorg.bsky.social's Women in International Law Interest Group.
The event will host experts and activists and facilitate small-group discussions on opportunities for promoting gender justice in the treaty.
Join the Strategic Litigation Project at the 2026 UN Convention on the Status of Women for a civil society workshop on gender justice and the crimes against humanity treaty. #CAHTreatyNow #CSW70
This event has been postponed and will no longer take place on Tuesday, March 3.
Stay tuned for the rescheduled time and date.
🗓️ MARCH 3 @ 10:00 am ET | How can the Iranian regime be held accountable for the provision of drones to Russia?
The SLP hosts a virtual report launch with the Embassy of Poland in Washington DC, @iphr.bsky.social, and @c4ads.org.
Read more ⬇️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/holdin...
On January 26, the EU officially designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
This US designated the IRGC in 2019, and an EU designation has been discussed for years. Read @lisandranovo.bsky.social and @celestekmiotek.bsky.social's 2024 analysis unpacking the details.
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The evidence of mass detention of Uyghurs collected by a Chinese dissident "added significant weight to the Trump administration’s own findings that the atrocities amounted to genocide."
Read SLP's @rayhanasat.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
The Strategic Litigation Project is pleased to cosponsor a side event on the margins of the first preparatory committee session for the crimes against humanity treaty.
The event will dig into how countries can enforce the Convention to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity.
A big welcome to our new Nonresident Senior Fellow, Courtney Spivey Urschel!
Courtney Urschel served as the Deputy Chief overseeing the Human Rights portfolio at the Department of Justice, and tripled the number of human rights prosecutions during her tenure.
The SLP is grateful to the survivors, IHRDC, Argentine lawyer Maximo Castex who filed the complaint, and the legal support provided by Nizar El Fakih, @lisandranovo.bsky.social, @saretaashraph.bsky.social, and Nushin Sarkarati.
We will continue to provide updates here.
This means crimes against humanity (CAH) committed by the IRI inside Iran against Iranian victims can be investigated by an Argentina court.
Similar complaints have been filed in Argentina on CAH in Venezuela, genocide against Rohingya in Myanmar & CAH under Franco in Spain.
Argentina’s constitution allows federal courts to investigate & prosecute crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity & war crimes.
Critically on Iran, Argentina doesn't require physical presence of alleged perpetrators in its territory before an investigation can begin.
Complainants who are publicly identified include Kosar Eftekhari and Mersedeh Shahinkar, and Mahsa Piraei, whose mother Minoo Majidi was shot and killed w/ metal pellets by IRI security forces.
Read more:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The complaint requests that an investigative judge in Argentina order the opening of a criminal investigation into crimes against humanity of gender persecution, murder, torture, and other inhumane acts such as targeted blinding, committed by IRI officials and security forces.
The Woman, Life, Freedom protests began in September 2022 following the tragic killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman who was arrested for allegedly defying the IRI’s mandatory hijab laws and later died in the custody of the IRI’s morality police.
On Dec 16, 2025, a group of survivors from the Woman, Life, Freedom protests & @ihrdc.bsky.social, w/ support from the SLP, filed a criminal complaint in Argentina for crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 2022 protests.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The task of securing justice for Assad-era human rights violations is monumental, write @elisebaker.bsky.social and Ahmad Helmi.
But collaboration between Syrian authorities, civil society, and foreign actors can help pave the way towards accountability.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
"States agreed to respect territorial integrity because they knew the deadly consequences of wars of aggression and annexation."
@elisebaker.bsky.social unpacks how the international community can respond to illegal Israeli proposals to annex the West Bank.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
Thank you to our co-organizers: the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, IPHR, New Lines Institute, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, and Harvard Law's International Human Rights Clinic.
Watch the full recording online:
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/intent...
On November 19, the SLP co-hosted “Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s campaign to erase Ukraine and its people.”
Panelists discussed mounting evidence of Russia’s intent to destroy the Ukrainian people, and provided concrete recommendations to halt Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine.
Hosted in collaboration with @iphr.bsky.social, @giwps.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu's International Human Rights Clinic, and @newlinesinst.bsky.social.
TOMORROW | 9:00am ET
Tune in for the Strategic Litigation Project and Eurasia Center's full-day conference exploring legal, political, and diplomatic strategies to halt Russia’s campaign of atrocities against the Ukrainian people.
Watch live⬇️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/intent...
Israel's Aug 2025 targeted double tap strike on Nasser Hospital—and its broad pattern of attacks on healthcare workers and facilities—demands accountability from international actors, write SLP's @elisebaker.bsky.social and @brittgronemeyer.bsky.social.
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/04/a...
Last in our Spyware Accountability series with the
@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social:
For the Rome Statute to remain relevant, practitioners must understand how governments can deploy spyware to commit international crimes, writes Lindsay Freeman.
www.justsecurity.org/118463/rome-...
The Trump administration's consideration of alleged drug trafficking criminals as military targets has grave implications for the use of lethal force, explains SLP staff lawyer
@celestekmiotek.bsky.social.
Read her take here:
www.univision.com/noticias/ame...
