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22 March 2023 - NPWJ News Digest on International Criminal Justice
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In Dialogue with Zambia, Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend the State for Abolishing the Death Penalty, Ask About Gaps in Laws on Enforced Disappearance and the Wrongful Removal of Children
OHCHR, 21 Mar 2023
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning concluded its consideration of Zambia, in the absence of a report, on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Committee Experts commended the State for abolishing the death penalty, and asked questions about the absence of legislation on enforced disappearance and about wrongful removal of children.
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North Korea's unparalleled self-isolation must cease: UN expert
OHCHR, 21 Mar 2023
Unprecedented self-isolation imposed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated the suffering of its people, a UN expert warned today. In a report to the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Elizabeth Salmón, urged the international community to pay urgent attention to the people's deteriorating access to food, medicine and health care in the country.
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Global review reveals criminalization of abortion in almost all countries
News-Medical.Net, 21 Mar 2023
Almost all countries around the globe criminalize abortion in some circumstances, despite the public health risks and impact on human rights, finds a review of the scope of penalties for the procedure in 182 nations, published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. Some 134 countries penalize those seeking an abortion, while 181 penalize providers, and 159 those who assist in the procedure, the review shows. The evidence indicates that criminalization doesn't deter women from deciding to have an abortion; rather, it limits or delays access to safe abortion and increases the need to turn to unsafe and unregulated services, point out the researchers.
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The Role of NGOs in Supporting the International Court of Justice Case Targeting Israel
NGO Monitor, 20 Mar 2023
This report examines the role of Palestinian, Israeli and European NGOs in the latest effort to use the ICJ to advance this form of political warfare. The NGOs discussed below have been a central part of the Palestinian campaign to exploit international institutions and legal bodies to “internationalize” its conflict with Israel. Instead, this network of European-funded NGOs have been campaigning to advance the prosecution of Israeli officials at the ICC and in some cases have received EU and European-government explicitly for this objective.
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Iraq: 20 years since the US-led coalition invaded Iraq, impunity reigns supreme
Amnesty International, 20 Mar 2023
On the 20-year anniversary of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Amnesty International today renewed its calls for justice and full reparation for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law perpetrated by the United States-led Coalition. Between 2003 and 2011, Amnesty International documented US forces’ engagement in rampant violations, including indiscriminate attacks that killed and injured civilians, secret detention, secret detainee transfers, enforced disappearance, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Former detainees have credibly alleged a litany of abuses in detention centres, including sleep deprivation, forced nudity, deprivation of adequate food and water, mock executions and threats of rape.
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Let Tanzanians be proud of country’s role in international criminal justice
The Citizen, 18 Mar 2023
Tanzania hosted the United Nations Detention Facility, under the jurisdiction of the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, for 27 years. For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the world body, on 26 May 1996, established and began operating a prison facility in the Tanzanian northern city of Arusha. Tanzania has all the reasons to be proud of its role in facilitating this international operation and in assisting the UN successfully implement its mission.
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CRUCIAL HEARING FOR UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN FRANCE
JusticeInfo.net, 16 Mar 2023
On March 17, the French high court will examine appeals in two Syrian war crimes and crimes against humanity cases. The outcome could affect the future of French universal jurisdiction and of more than a third of such investigations under way in France. At issue are the ambiguities of the 2010 law integrating French universal jurisdiction over international crimes into the penal code, which reflect political reluctance to develop such litigation in France.
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