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Category Archives: Canada
Hi Venezuela, You’ve Reached the ICC. Can We Put You on Hold?
This article was originally published at CEPAZ, where a number of other posts on Venezuela and international criminal justice will be published over the coming days. The post is also available in Spanish here. In September 2018, six states – … Continue reading
Companies Helped Sustain the Gaddafi Regime. They Should be Held to Account
The following was written for and initially published by the Global and Mail, in response to the ongoing scandal surrounding the Canadian government and the Canadian company, SNC-Lavalin. Canadians have been battered with news about the SNC-Lavalin scandal. The Trudeau … Continue reading
Justice for the Rohingya – What States, like Canada, Can Do Now
This blog was jointly written by Amanda Ghahremani, the Legal Director of Canadian Centre for International Justice, Fannie Lafontaine, a professor at Université Laval and Canada Research Chair on International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, and Mark Kersten, a Fellow at … Continue reading
Mixing Immigration and Justice… Without Sacrificing One for the Other
Below is an article I wrote, a version of which originally appeared in the Globe and Mail, on the increasingly blurred lines between immigration policy and international criminal justice. While the focus of the piece is on the Canadian experience and what the … Continue reading
Politics, Justice, and the Politics of Justice — Partisanship and the International Criminal Court
At this point, it is almost a cliché to call international criminal justice “political”. For years, calling war crimes tribunals political was the gravest of insults critics could levy against the field. Slowly, however, it has become more acceptable — … Continue reading
Five Things to Know about the ICC’s Afghanistan Investigation
With the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the verge of opening an investigation into Afghanistan, much has been written about how this might affect Canada. Could the investigation focus on the role of Canadian officials in surrendering detainees who were … Continue reading
Let’s Avoid Politicizing the Genocide Against Yazidis
There is no doubt that genocidal acts have been perpetrated against the Yazidi people by the Islamic State (ISIS). A recent report by United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has given credence to political declarations in the United States, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), Genocide, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Justice Ambassador, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Syria, Terrorism, UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, Yazidi Genocide
Tagged Justin Trudeau
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A Matter of Justice, Not Immigration: What to do with War Criminals posing as Refugees
Rumours that terrorists have been hiding themselves among Syrian refugees and asylum seekers embarking for the shores and capitals Europe are nothing new. Especially in the wake of the Paris attacks last year, it was widely reported that groups like … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Europe, International Criminal Justice, Refugees, Syria, The Netherlands
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Please Stop Bean-Counting Syrian refugees
For months, the international community has been clamouring to find an appropriate response to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence and terror in Syria. But much of the debate about what states can and should … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Refugees, Syria
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Canada’s Back: Let it be – and have – an Ambassador of International Justice
Human rights and international justice advocates around the world breathed a collective sigh of relief this past week. After ten years in power, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was replaced in a massive defeat at the hands of the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Human Rights, International Criminal Justice, International Law
Tagged Justin Trudea, Louise Arbour
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