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SUMMARY:Accountability for Human Rights Violations  committed in the name of the "War on Drugs"
DESCRIPTION:A Side Event to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council \n\nDate & Time: Tuesday 30 September 2025 / 16:00 – 17:00 CET\nVenue: Concordia I\, Palais des Nations\, United Nations\, Geneva\nLive streaming on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/5c2o9MRcl\nOrganised by: No Peace Without Justice\n\nThe global push to combat narcotics has become a pretext for systematic human rights violations and state violence\, including extrajudicial executions\, torture\, arbitrary detention\, and crimes against humanity. This side event examines accountability mechanisms by linking the ongoing ICC prosecution of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with recent U.S. military strikes on ostensibly civilian vessels in the Caribbean\, exploring how international law can protect both direct victims and populations “in whose name” such violence occurs.\nThe Philippines case provides critical precedent: Duterte’s anti-drugs campaign resulted in thousands of deaths\, widespread intimidation\, and deliberate erosion of democratic institutions. On 12 March 2025\, Duterte was surrendered to the ICC by virtue of an ICC arrest warrant for the crime against humanity of murder under Article 7(1)(a) of the Rome Statute—marking historic progress toward accountability for state-sponsored extrajudicial killings. Victims continue to seek justice at the ICC\, highlighting challenges and possibilities of victim-centered accountability.\nContemporary Caribbean developments demonstrate pattern evolution: U.S. military forces struck four ostensibly civilian vessels in international waters in September 2025\, killing at least 19 individuals. Regional leaders’ endorsement—Trinidad and Tobago’s PM praising the strikes\, Dominican Republic describing “first-of-its-kind joint operation against narco-terrorism”—reveals how anti-drug rhetoric facilitates regional complicity in unlawful state violence. UN Special Rapporteurs and human rights organizations condemned these as extrajudicial killings violating international law.\nA proposed U.S. Authorization for Use of Military Force aimed at “narco-terrorists” could grant authority for counter-narcotics military operations across 60+ countries\, systematizing cross-border interventions and creating templates for authoritarian consolidation. Such operations serve dual purposes: generating popular support while intimidating opponents and normalizing state violence. Populations “in whose name” violence occurs—including the American public—constitute critical victim groups\, highlighting transnational implications requiring robust international accountability. \nCore Objectives:\n– Examine accountability processes for human rights violations committed in anti-drug contexts\, including ICC confirmation under Article 61 and complementarity principles\n– Analyze contemporary operations within proposed legislative expansions that could systematize such operations globally\nExplore victim-centered approaches for both directly targeted populations and those indirectly affected “in whose name” violence is conducted\n– Assess authoritarian consolidation patterns through anti-drug rhetoric and transnational “security cooperation”\n– Identify concrete recommendations for States\, international organizations\, and civil society to strengthen accountability\, prevent future violations\, uphold rule of law \nConcept note and program
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/accountability-for-human-rights-violations-committed-in-the-name-of-the-war-on-drugs/
LOCATION:Human Rights Council\, Geneva\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Seizing Power: Occupation\, Torture\, and Nuclear Safety Breaches at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
DESCRIPTION:A Side Event to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Corporate Complicity\, War Crimes\, and Risks of Nuclear Catastrophe \n\nDate & Time: Wednesday 1 October 11:30 – 12:30 CET\nVenue: Conference Room V\, Palais des Nations\, United Nations\, Geneva\nLive streaming on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3PezYb3Zi\nOrganized by: No Peace Without Justice\, Truth Hounds\nCo-sponsored by: Permanent Missions to the UN Geneva of Liechtenstein\, Ukraine\, Poland\, Croatia\, Czechia\, Denmark\, Estonia\, Finland\, Ireland\, Lithuania\, Latvia\, Montenegro\, The Netherlands\, Slovenia\n\nThe event will feature a dynamic panel presentation\, combining expert testimony from Truth Hounds investigators\, legal analysis\, and first-hand accounts from affected community representatives. The format is designed to facilitate a substantive and interactive discussion among\ndelegations\, civil society\, and the media\, moving beyond a simple briefing to a collaborative strategy\nsession.\nAt this side event\, Truth Hounds experts will present the findings of their comprehensive report\, highlighting the interconnection of systematic human rights abuses and nuclear safety breaches\, while addressing key pathways for achieving accountability and actively preventing these crimes from continuing and offering recommendations on how to address the situation. \nBackground\nRussia’s military seizure of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in March 2022 represents the first instance in history of an active nuclear facility under military occupation.\nThe situation raises four interrelated concerns:\n1. Widespread and systematic arbitrary detention\, torture\, and persecution of civilians and ZNPP staff constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute.\n2. Rosatom’s dual role\, coupled with the Russian state’s control over it\, underscores unmatched issues of corporate complicity and state responsibility for facilitating occupation policies that violate international law.\n3. Coercion of nuclear personnel severed regulatory oversight\, and militarization of the plant critically undermine operational safety\, creating a transboundary nuclear risk.\n4. Permitting the militarization of a nuclear facility sets a precedent for future conflicts\, threatening the stability of international peace and security and the integrity of the global nuclear safety regime.\nUrgent international action is required\, including through independent monitoring\, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and a dangerous precedent that threatens the stability of international peace and security and the integrity of the global nuclear safety regime.\nThis multi-dimensional crisis demands coordinated diplomatic\, legal\, and operational responses to protect civilians\, restore nuclear safety\, and uphold international law. \n\nConcept note and agenda
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/seizing-power-occupation-torture-and-nuclear-safety-breaches-at-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant/
LOCATION:Human Rights Council\, Geneva\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:When accountability becomes a crime:   protecting human rights defenders   in the Age of Lawfare
DESCRIPTION:Side event to the 24th Assembly of State Parties of the ICC \nThursday\, 4 December 2025 | 13:15 – 14:45 | Yangtze 2 \nPanellists:\n– Shawan Jabarin\, Director General of Al-Haq;\n– Raji Sourani\, Founder and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights;\n– Issam Younis\, Director General of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;\n– Antônia Pereira de Sousa\, Senior Special Assistant to the Registrar of the ICC;\n– Niccolò Figà-Talamanca\, interim Convenor of the CICC.\nModerator: Rev. Father Albert C. Alejo S.J.\, Board Member\, No Peace Without Justice \nCo-sponsors: No Peace Without Justice; Al-Haq; Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; Coalition for the International Criminal Court; Women’s Initiatives for\nGender Justice; FIDH; Amnesty International; EUmans\, Holistic Empowerment for Development (H.E.D) on behalf of 5 Ethiopian CSOs – African Initiatives for a Democratic World Order\n(AIDWO)\, Exodus Charity Organization (ECO)\, Vision Ethiopian Congress for Democracy (VECOD)\, Human Rights and Humanitarian Development Initiatives (HRHDI); Robert F. Kennedy\nHuman Rights; Union for Civil Liberty; Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada; Human Rights Now; Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society; Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group; International Centre for\nJustice for Palestinians; World Without Genocide; Platform for Peace and Humanity; Centre Marocain pour la Loi et la Paix.\nState co-sponsors: the State of Palestine. \nNote: Interpretation will be available in Arabic\, English\, French and Spanish. \n\nFlyer of the side event
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/when-accountability-becomes-a-crime-protecting-human-rights-defenders-in-the-age-of-lawfare/
LOCATION:The Hague\, Oude Waalsdorperweg 10\, The Hague\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Murder on the Land and the Sea: Extrajudicial Drug War Killings in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Side event at the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs\nin-person: Wednesday 11 March\, 1:00-2:00pm CET\, Room M0E79\, Vienna International Center\n\nZoom (with optional registration): https://bit.ly/murderonlandandsea\nZoom (direct meeting access): https://bit.ly/murderonlandandsea-noreg\nhttps://stopthedrugwar.org/ruleoflaw\n\n\nDrugs are an issue which – like migration\, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme found in drug policies today does so more than that of extrajudicial killings.  “Murder on the Land and the Sea” will discuss identified episodes of drug war EJKs in the 21st century\, their context and interrelationships\, and their implications for the future of democracy and the rules-based order.\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nDavid Borden\, Executive Director\, StoptheDrugWar.org\nCarlos Conde\, Rights Report Philippines\, former Human Rights Watch\, NYT\nDiego Garcia-Devis\, Drug Policy Program Manager\, Open Society Foundations\nAnnie Shiel\, US Advocacy Director\, Center for Civilians in Conflict\n\nModerator: Kat Murti\, Executive Director\, Students for Sensible Drug Policy\n\nOrganized by DRCNet Foundation AKA StoptheDrugWar.org\, with cosponsors Associazone Luca Coscioni\, Drug Policy Alliance\, Forum Droghe\, International Drug Law Advocacy & Resource Center\, No Peace Without Justice\, NoBox Transitions Philippines\, Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court\, Students for Sensible Drug Policy\, Veterans Action Council\, Washington Office on Latin America\n \nPlease contact David Borden at +1 202-236-8620 or borden@drcnet.org for further information.  Visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/ruleoflaw and https://stopthedrugwar.org/global to read about our international programs.
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/murder-on-the-land-and-the-sea-extrajudicial-drug-war-killings-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:vienna\, Austria
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Health Care in the Dark: The Human Cost of Russia's Attacks on Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Side Event on the margins of the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council Conference Room Concordia I\, Palais des Nations\, Geneva\n25 March 2026 │ 12:00 – 13:00 CET\n– Live streaming on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/RNwO74JW8Z4\n– Co-Sponsored by: Permanent Missions to the UN Geneva of Ukraine\, Czech Republic\, Estonia\, Finland\, Latvia\, Moldova\, Montenegro and Netherlands\n–  Organised by: No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) and Truth Hounds\, in cooperation with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)\n– Flyer\n– Concept note \nRussia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are not an incidental consequence of military operations. They are a deliberate policy directed at the conditions under which civilians live\, access care\, and sustain community life. The responsibility of the Russian Federation is a matter of international law — and the pattern of conduct raises serious questions under international criminal law\, including as potential crimes against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome ICC Statute.\nThe consequences are visible at both the institutional and individual level. Hospital directors and municipal authorities have restructured services\, rationed backup power\, and made triage decisions driven by electricity availability. The medical risks of these attacks were widely known and publicly documented as strikes continued — speaking directly to the foreseeability required under international criminal law. Older people\, people with chronic illness\, patients dependent on dialysis or respiratory support\, children and persons with disabilities are identifiable individuals whose rights are being violated in documented\, recurring ways\, yet whose situation remains largely absent from the evidentiary record.\nThis side event draws on Truth Hounds’ and PHR’s research to show how attacks on civilian infrastructure translate into measurable health harm\, falling disproportionately on those least able to bear it. A practitioner with direct experience of systematic power disruption will ground the discussion in operational reality\, before turning to what the international community — including UN human rights mechanisms and the ICC — is required to do. Three interconnected concerns frame the discussion:\n• The deliberate targeting of energy infrastructure serving civilian populations violates international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. These health consequences must be prosecuted accordingly — not absorbed into humanitarian frameworks that treat them as if they were unavoidable natural disasters.\n• Sentinel populations — older people\, people with disabilities\, and patients dependent on electricity-reliant care — bear a disproportionate burden of harm that existing casualty methodologies fail to capture. Closing this evidentiary gap is a precondition for accountability.\n• Urgent international action is required\, through UN human rights mechanisms and the ICC\, to ensure justice for survivors and prevent further impunity.\nThis crisis demands coordinated diplomatic\, legal\, and operational responses. Silence and inaction are not neutral: they entrench the impunity that makes these attacks possible. \nPreliminary Draft Agenda\n12:00 – 12:05 Opening Remarks\nRoman Toder\, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine\n12:05 – 12:45 Panel Presentations\n· Evan Harary\, Truth Hounds\n· Lesia Lysytsia\, Okhmatdyt Hospital Kyiv\n· Uliana Poltavets\, Physicians for Human Rights\n12:45 – 12:55 Interactive Dialogue & Q&A\nModerated by Niccolò Figà Talamanca\, No Peace Without Justice\n12:55 – 13:00 Conclusions \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/health-care-in-the-dark-the-human-cost-of-russias-attacks-on-ukraines-energy-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Human Rights Council\, Geneva\, Switzerland
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