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08 March 2023 - NPWJ on International Criminal Justice
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Saudi Arabia: Law Enshrines Male Guardianship
Human Rights Watch, 08 Mar 2023
Saudi Arabia’s first codified law on personal status, issued on International Women’s Day in 2022, formally enshrines male guardianship over women, Human Rights Watch said today. The law contains discriminatory provisions against women concerning marriage, divorce, and decisions about their children. The law codifies discriminatory practices and includes provisions that facilitate domestic violence and sexual abuse in marriage. The law also uses vague language that gives judges wide discretion when adjudicating cases, increasing the likelihood of inconsistent interpretations.
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New universal jurisdiction case filed in Germany for crimes committed in Myanmar before and after the coup: On complementarity, effectiveness, and new hopes for old crimes
EJIL:Talk!, 07 Mar 2023
A few days before the second anniversary of the ‘failed coup’ in Myanmar, a case was filed in Germany against senior Myanmar military generals and ‘other actors’ identified in the complaint for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The complaint requests the German Federal Prosecutor to open a structural investigation on allegations of crimes committed against the Rohingya people between 2016 and 2017, and against other civilians since the coup of February 1, 2021, and is the first-ever to address the full range of allegations to date.
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Georgia: ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill Tramples on Rights
Human Rights Watch, 07 Mar 2023
Georgia’s parliament should firmly reject the two bills it is debating that would require individuals, civil society organizations, and media outlets to register with the Justice Ministry as “agents of foreign influence” if they receive at least 20 percent of their funds from abroad, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. If adopted, the bills would also impose additional onerous reporting requirements, inspections, and administrative and criminal liability, including up to five years in prison for violations. These bills are incompatible with international human rights law and standards that protect the rights to freedom of expression and association.
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Lebanon: 38 Countries Condemn Interference with Beirut Blast Probe
Human Rights Watch, 07 Mar 2023
Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council on March 7, 2023, condemned the pervasive obstruction and interference with Lebanon’s domestic investigation into the August 4, 2020 explosion at Beirut’s port, Human Rights Watch and Legal Agenda said today. Lebanese authorities should urgently act to carry out badly needed judicial reforms and remove other obstacles undermining the domestic investigation into the explosion.
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Nicaragua, “a Nationwide Crime Scene”
Havana Times, 06 Mar 2023
The nearly a year’s work revealing report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua offers a roadmap to build a real obstacle to the impunity enjoyed so far by the Nicaraguan dictators and their cronies. The group, also known as GHREN, was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 31 last year. It gave it the mandate to investigate “all human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018” to “contribute to accountability and access to justice for victims.”
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Syria Earthquake: Why did the UN aid take so long to arrive?
BBC, 06 Mar 2023
The UN's delay in delivering life-saving aid to Syrian victims of last month's devastating earthquake was unnecessary, legal experts have told the BBC. Centred near Gaziantep in Turkey, the 6 February 7.8 magnitude tremor and subsequent earthquakes and aftershocks killed at least 45,968 people in Turkey, according to officials there, and about 6,000 in Syria as a whole. More than 4,500 people were killed and more than 8,700 injured in north-west Syria by the earthquake, the UN says. The BBC has spoken to more than a dozen experts in total, including eminent lawyers, professors, retired judges of the International Court of Justice and former UN legal officials. All said that deaths could have been prevented, if the UN had used a different interpretation of international law to allow it to respond in north-west Syria.
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Afghanistan: UN Human Rights Council must address Taliban’s ongoing ‘relentless abuses’
Amnesty International, 05 Mar 2023
Amnesty International is urging UN member states to act towards ending impunity and ensuring justice for victims of Taliban abuses, as the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan presents a new report at the 52nd Human Rights Council session today. In recent months, the Taliban have been targeting women’s rights defenders, academics and activists for unlawful detention. Many have been arbitrarily arrested, with no legal remedy or access to their families. They are believed to have been detained for publicly criticizing the Taliban’s policies.
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