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To Extradite or Not Extradite?
The European Court of Human Rights has at last issued a judgment permitting the extradition of a genocide suspect to Rwanda (Ahorugeze v. Sweden). The case is important because similar extradition...
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Hiding Places
Universal jurisdiction is necessary to ensure that there is no hiding place for the world’s most brutal criminals. The arrest warrant for Saif Gaddafi was issued by the ICC, but had he fled to the UK,...
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Justice Delayed
Justice delayed may be justice denied, as the popular maxim says, but sometimes it isn’t. At least in the world of human rights, legal justice can proceed at despairingly slow speed, only to have...
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Prosecution, Extradition, and Forgetting
Universal jurisdiction took center stage last week at The Hague, as the contentious case between Belgium and Senegal opened before the International Court of Justice, raising key questions: Does a...
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Adjudicating Pain
Until this past week, the United States was the only country where universal jurisdiction has been used in civil human rights cases. This week, a Dutch court joined it, awarding one million euros to...
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One Step Forward
A federal criminal court in Switzerland ruled last week that a former Algerian defense minister doesn’t have immunity for war crimes allegedly committed while in office in the early 1990s. Two...
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WikiLeaks 101: Extradition Isn’t Universal Jurisdiction
I asked for the extradition of Pinochet, who had been investigated and charged with… genocide, torture, serious breaches of human rights… Assange is having a fundamental right breached too — freedom...
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Gendering Jurisdiction
Labeling a person according to her gender highlights difference—really, ongoing hierarchies of power. Two recent incidents, both referencing sub-Saharan Africa, insert ‘women’ (as social category)...
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