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SUMMARY:Tunisia: The Weaponisation of the Criminal Justice System in the Context of the Judicial Independence Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Room XXV Palais des Nations\, Geneva\nDate & Time: 6 March 2025\, 15:00 \nTunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH)\, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF)\, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)\, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)\, EuroMed Rights\, No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ)\, and the Committee for the Respect of Liberties and Human Rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT) are organising a side event at the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council. This discussion will examine the erosion of judicial independence in Tunisia and the increasing use of the criminal justice system to suppress dissent. \nObjective:\nThis event will provide a platform for legal experts\, human rights defenders\, and affected individuals to inform the international community and UN human rights mechanisms about the implications of the ongoing crackdown on judicial independence and fundamental freedoms in Tunisia. Discussions will focus on the broader regional and international impact of these developments\, as well as potential avenues for engagement and reform. \nSpeakers Include: \nSenior legal and human rights experts\, representatives of civil society organizations\, Individuals with direct experience of the crisis.
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/tunisia-the-weaponisation-of-the-criminal-justice-system-in-the-context-of-the-judicial-independence-crisis/
LOCATION:Human Rights Council\, Geneva\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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SUMMARY:NPWJ receives Jamaat-e-Islami leadership in Brussels
DESCRIPTION:On 8 April 2025\, No Peace Without Justice was pleased to host the leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh\, including its Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman\, alongside prominent members of Bangladeshi civil society. \nThe meeting provided an opportunity to engage in a meaningful exchange on the critical situation in Bangladesh and the urgent challenges of its ongoing political transition. The discussion underscored the importance of ensuring free and fair elections\, and the need to initiate a victim-centered transitional justice process – one rooted in accountability\, truth-seeking\, and truth-telling as essential steps to move forward without the heavy burden of a long-standing culture of impunity. \nNPWJ remains committed to support local activists and political leaders in Bangladesh advocating for democratic institutions grounded on the rule of law\, respect of human rights and fair justice. \nBackground\nThe atrocities committed during the 1971 conflict still haunt Bangladesh and efforts to bring justice are essential for the country to moving forward without the heavy burden of impunity. The hundred of thousands of victims and survivors deserve that justice is done and seen to be done. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)\, which began its work in March 2010\, could have been an historic opportunity to provide proper acknowledgement and redress to countless victims and allow the country to move forward free from the heavy burden of a long-standing culture of impunity. However\, the major flaws in its proceedings and repeated violations of due process and fair trial rights raised strong concerns of the international community. Furthermore\, by focusing its investigations on the leadership of the then opposition political parties for their role during the conflict and by handing down the death penalty against several individuals on trial before it\, the ICT has inevitably reinforced the claims of those who dismiss its proceedings as a clumsy attempt to carry out an unjust and politically motivated judicial exercise of vengeance under the guise of fighting impunity. \n\nBriefing on the Human Rights situation in Bangladesh\, European Parliament\, Brussels\, 6 December 2022\nWar crimes in Bangladesh: European Union should act decisively in impending miscarriage of justice\, 12 November 2015\nWar crimes in Bangladesh: unfair trials and death penalty will not bring justice\, 17 June 2015\nWe urge the government of Bangladesh to begin dialogue with opposition\, Financial Times\, Comments/Letters\, 28 February 2015\nBangladesh International Crimes Tribunal: unfair trials and death penalty will not bring justice\, 6 November 2014\nBangladesh: International Lawyers submit evidence to ICC Prosecutor over serious crimes allegedly committed by government forces\, 4 February 2014\nUPR/Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal: NPWJ calls for removal of death penalty and strict application of due process guarantees\, 19 September 2013\nThe Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal should be internationalised – for the sake of the nation’s future\, 17 October 2013\n11th ASP to the ICC: NPWJ convenes side event on “The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal”\, The Hague\, 21 November 2012\nBangladesh International Crimes Tribunal: Make Justice Count Through Fair Trials\, Op-Ed By Niccolo ’Figa’ Talamanca and Nicola Giovannini\, Eurasia Review\, 8 November 2012\nBangladesh International Crimes Tribunal: NPWJ calls for removal of death penalty and strict application of due process guarantees\, 5 November 2012\n\nFor more information\, please contact Nicola Giovannini\, Press & Public Affairs Coordinator (ngiovannini@npwj.org) or Alison Smith\, International Justice Director (asmith@npwj.org)
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/npwj-receives-jamaat-e-islami-leadership-in-brussels/
LOCATION:Brussels\, Brussels\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC MEETING: Organisational resilience of civil society under external pressure
DESCRIPTION:Bank accounts\, archives\, management platforms\, communication channels\, insurance and payments: intermediaries that are often irreplaceable and themselves exposed to unpredictable political pressure. How can operational continuity be ensured in a system built around a few chokepoints\, and what policy response could secure European financial and digital sovereignty? \n\nWhen: Friday 16 October 2026 – 5 pm to 8 pm\nWhere: EMERGENCY Venezia – Giudecca 212\, Fondamenta San Giacomo\nFree entry\, registration required: Register at tinyurl.com/NGOResilience\nProgram\n\n  \nProgramme\n17.00 Welcome Rossella Miccio\, President\, EMERGENCY\nOpening remarks Giovanni Pelizzato\, President of the Municipalità di Venezia-Murano-Burano\nIntroduction Tara O’Grady\, President\, No Peace Without Justice\n17.20 Panel discussion\nStefano Quintarelli\, Computer scientist (online)\nZoe Paris\, Advocacy Director\, Coalition for the International Criminal Court\nFausto Gianelli\, Lawyer for Autistici/Inventati\nRoberta Borroni\, Vice-President\, EMERGENCY\nAhmed Abofoul\, Legal Advisor\, Al-Haq\nLuca Casarini\, Head of Mission\, Mediterranea Saving Humans\nMatt Cannock\, Centre for International Justice\, Amnesty International\nAlvise Nicoletti\, Founder and CEO\, ELAN42\n18.30 Open discussion Moderated by Niccolò Figà-Talamanca\, Secretary-General\, No Peace Without Justice\n19.50 Conclusions Alison Smith\, Convenor\, Coalition for the International Criminal Court\n20.00 Close \nBackground\nAn almost invisible infrastructure\nEvery organisation\, small or large\, rests on an ordinary and almost invisible infrastructure: the bank account\nthat receives its grants and pays its salaries\, the archives and management platforms that hold its documents\,\ncontracts and institutional memory\, its email and messaging\, its insurance\, its payments. These services are in\nthe hands of a few intermediaries\, often irreplaceable in the short term and themselves exposed to\nunpredictable political pressure. The resulting architecture has grown around a few nodes without anyone\ndesigning it that way: each dependency is a critical point with no alternative\, and the dependencies add up.\nWhen a node gives way\, the organisation stops\, even if it was never itself targeted.\nFrom the International Criminal Court to an ordinary bank transfer\nAt the most visible extreme are the sanctions imposed\, under the same executive order\, on judges and\nprosecutors of the International Criminal Court and on three Palestinian human rights organisations that\ncooperate with it\, Al-Haq\, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: measures contrary to Italian\nand European law\, which nonetheless take effect in Europe\, because banks\, payment networks and digital\nservices depend on nodes located elsewhere.\nAt the end of August the same tool was turned on a small Italian volunteer collective\, which had offered free\nemail and websites to associations and activists since 2001: the United States government placed it on a\ncounter-terrorism list. A few days later its bank\, an Italian ethical bank\, suspended its account rather than put\nat risk the cards and international payments of all its customers. In early September the collective shut down\nall its services.\nAt the other extreme there is no list\, only over-compliance: a compliance system that goes well beyond\nanything the law requires. An organisation pays a staff member in a country automatically classified as “high\nrisk”: almost every time\, even for recurring payments\, the machine flags the transfer\, the payment (and\nsometimes the account itself) is suspended\, and the bank’s compliance office has to phone to ask for the donor\ncontract\, the invoice or the payslip\, and then release it manually. If this happens three times a week\, the bank\ncloses the account on a simple cost-benefit calculation\, knowing full well that everything is in order. An\norganisation afraid of losing its account starts choosing projects\, partners and words with the bank in mind:\nthat is how self-censorship and blackmail take hold.\nOrganisational policies and policy responses\nOn 16 October we will discuss this on two levels. The first concerns organisations: which governance choices\,\nredundancies and contingency plans ensure operational continuity\, without solutions so rigid that they push\nstaff towards informal workarounds that create new risks. The second concerns policy: what responses could\nsecure European financial and digital sovereignty\, starting with an update of the Blocking Statute\, the\ninstrument through which the European Union shields those operating on its territory from the extraterritorial\neffects of third-country measures.\nFormat\nThe meeting is public and open to everyone. It takes the form of a working session: short framing remarks and\nplenty of room for the practical experience of those who run organisations and those who carry out their day\nto-day work. Civil society organisations of every size\, local and national\, and experts in the field are invited to\njoin the discussion. Contributions are welcome in Italian or English\, with live subtitles in both languages.
URL:https://www.npwj.org/event/public-meeting-organisational-resilience-of-civil-society-under-external-pressure/
LOCATION:EMERGENCY Venezia\, Giudecca 212\, Fondamenta San Giacomo\, Venezia
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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