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James Joseph

@jamesjoseph.bsky.social

Int’l Law, politics, Atrocity Prevention, Transitional Justice | 🌱 | Director of The Duty Legacy, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hazaras and The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes

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Two Years of War in Sudan – The London Ministerial Conference must act decisively to end the bloodshed Without a robust justice framework and Sudanese CSO involvement, The London Conference will fail to bring peace.

Two years ofnwar in Sudan: The London Ministerial Conference musr act decisively to end the bloodshed

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15.04.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Increasing visibility is a crucial first step toward ensuring protection and justice. The Banyamulenge are rarely featured in international news coverage within the wider instability in the DRC.

13.04.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Banyamulenge community is facing a critical threat to their survival that is often overlooked by global media β€” a story that we see repeated across the world.

13.04.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My appreciation to the Banyamulenge community in Bradford for inviting me last week to join their discussions on truth, justice, reconciliation, and addressing historical and current challenges impacting their community in South Kivu, the Eastern DRC, and worldwide.

13.04.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, we honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda by calling upon states to uphold their #R2P populations at risk of atrocities today.

As we also mark #R2P20 this year, we remind states that R2P provides a framework for prevention and response to these atrocities.
#WeRemember #Kwibuka31

07.04.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Delighted fo be quoted in this @cnn.com piece alongside eminent ICL professionals:
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06.04.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Afghan rights defender told she faces β€˜no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

β€˜...the most recent data for the last three months of 2024 immigration statistics show 26 #Afghan women had their claims rejected.’

#Afghanistan #WomanLifeFreedom #AfghanWomen

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05.04.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The video is now online! In case you have missed the 4th edition of the Nuremberg Academy Lectures

"The Long Arc of Justice: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity" by Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in Courtroom 600

Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtO4...

04.04.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This potential "new treaty and the hope it represents is not just a piece of paper: It is a promise to survivors" – Prof. Leila N. Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social in her Nuremberg Academy Lecture at Courtroom 600. Thank you so much for your insights! #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IntlLaw

01.04.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Statement on the Situation in Tigray The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, more than two years after the signing of t...

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The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes and member organisations expresses grave concern over the continued fragile situation in Tigray, πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ή , more than two years after the signing of the CoHA (also known as the Pretoria Agreement) on November 2, 2022.

02.04.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, so this one is the ICJ and this one is the ICC...

01.04.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

28.03.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 678    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Heading to Keele University Politics and International Relations careers day today to talk all-things peacebuilding, democracy, and international law.

A visual representation of how today willl go:

26.03.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink Tensions Rise in Tigray as Internal Power Struggles and External Pressures Threaten Fragile Peace

The Fragile Peace in Tigray: A Region on the Brink

I will now be posting blogs solely through Substack! Please consider subscribing:

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25.03.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carolina Silvestre joins The Duty Legacy Director's Office Introducing Carolina Silvestre, who joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director. Carolina holds a Law degree from NOVA School of Law (2...

Carolina Silvestre joins joins The Duty Legacy to work hand in hand with the Director's Office as a Senior Researcher to the Director.

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24.03.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#HRC58 Side event on reparations for #Ukraine.

Commissioner Pablo de Greiff: 'I beg the international community to make itself much more present in providing assistance and cooperation in those [non-judicial] dimensions of accountability, which for the victims are unpostponable.'

20.03.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Letter to Demand Action for Haiti’s Women and Girls from the New TPC President - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect To His Excellency Fritz Jean President of the Presidential Transitional Council As organizations committed to advancing human rights, justice, and prosperity in Haiti, we take note of your assumption ...

πŸ“£πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ή We've joined 60+ CSOs from around the globe to demand that #Haiti's President Jean take immediate corrective action to safeguard the rights of women and girls by fully implementing the Policy Framework for an Effective and Equitable Transition.

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www.globalr2p.org/publications...

20.03.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The research is set to explore the complexities of civil society organisation (CSO) involvement in International Law, particularly concerning atrocity crimes.

DM or email me contact info if you'd be willing to speak!

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18.03.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ACADEMIC/ ICL LAWYERS WANTED FOR INTERVIEW:

One of my team is looking for interviewees for her LLM project at Leiden University on "Challenging the Hierarchy of Criminal Justice: Civil Society, People’s Tribunals, and Victim-Centered Accountability in International Law"..

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18.03.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A β€˜coalition of the willing’ thrashes out how to enforce peace in Ukraine A senior military source tells Al Jazeera a multinational force needs a β€˜maximalist approach’ to deter Russia.

This is not neutral β€˜peacekeeping’ that has anyway a bad reputation everywhere. Besides, when the West has been heavily arming Ukraine, Russia will understandably not accept Western boots on ground. No more than West accepting N.Korean & Iranian boots on other side. aje.io/ep3m8q

17.03.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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Can ae take a minute to appreciate the sunset earlier tongiht. Not edited!

14.03.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#UK police received 1st report that Mugambe was holding a "slave" in Feb '23.

Mugambe got a visa for the young woman, alleging she'd be paid/employed by the #Uganda Embassy's Deputy High Commissioner, but picked her up from airport & drove her to Oxfordshire, forcing her to work as a nanny & maid.

14.03.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink It was via video link that the former president of the Philippines made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on Friday March 14, 2025. Rodrigo Duterte spoke bri...

Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink | @justiceinfo.bsky.social |
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14.03.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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African Union peacekeepers in Somalia accused of widespread abuse TNH interviewed nearly a dozen people who all alleged that they, or their deceased relatives, were victims of beatings or killings by AU peacekeepers.

What is it about peacekeepers - whether African Union here in Somalia or UN peacekeepers elsewhere abusing populations they supposedly protect? Yet more codes of conduct & so-called institutional development not enough www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

13.03.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The ICC Prosecutor's arrest warrant application for Duterte is now available:

www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

13.03.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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12.03.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the arrest and transfer of the suspect Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, on 11 March 2025 by ...

"The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the arrest and transfer of the suspect Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte"

www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

12.03.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Less β€œSun, Sea and Sand” for his holibobs in The Hague, and more β€œJurisdiction, Jail, Justice.”

12.03.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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