By Nikita Mehandru[1] and Alexa Koenig[2] Evidence derived from open sources—especially publicly accessible, online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube—is becoming increasingly important for international criminal investigations and prosecutions. In this essay, we discuss how the International Criminal Court has recently incorporated open source information into its investigatory practices and how its emerging […]
‘We All Stand Before History’: Corporate Impunity as a Colonial Legacy—The Case of the Niger Delta
By: Christopher Byrnes, Elizabeth Deligio, Brother Anthony Kote-Witah, and Charity Ryerson EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This article is an interdisciplinary examination of the legal, economic, historical and psychological impacts of the human rights situation affecting the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. The Ogoni have traveled the world seeking justice for the allegedly tortious business practices of Royal […]
Attacks on the International Criminal Court are Attacks on War Crimes Victims
By Nasredeen Abdulbari[1] Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in places like Darfur and Libya by armed attackers sponsored, supported, and/or controlled by governments or anti-government armed groups. Civilians are killed despite the fact that they are protected by Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and Article 8(2)(b)(i) of the Rome Statute of the […]
Atrocities Documented, Accountability Needed: Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism, By Paul R. Williams & Jessica Levy
By Paul R. Williams* and Jessica Levy‡ Introduction In late August and early September 2017, the Myanmar military launched a large-scale, coordinated attack against the Rohingya population of Myanmar in the Rakhine, Kachin, and Shan states. Mass killings, arson, and rape, amongst other atrocities, were used in an attempt to decimate and displace the […]
The Rohingya and the Crime Against Humanity of Persecution: A Blessing in Disguise for Gender Justice?
By Tiran Rahimian[1] Over the past twelve months, Myanmar’s armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, have driven over 670,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh in what has been described by UN sources as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” bearing the “hallmarks of a genocide.”[2] The campaign of atrocities, euphemized by Myanmar’s authorities as a […]
Marital Rape: A Non-criminalized Crime in India
By: Sarthak Makkar[1] The definition of rape codified in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (“IPC”) includes all forms of sexual assault involving nonconsensual intercourse with a woman.[2] However, Exception 2 to Section 375 exempts unwilling sexual intercourse between a husband and a wife over fifteen years of age from Section 375’s definition of […]