Djokaba Lambi Longba, a witness in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) trial of Thomas Lubanga who has requested asylum in the Netherlands, must be returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a Trial Chamber at the ICC confirmed recently. After considering submissions from Longba’s lawyers, Trial Chamber I refused to revoke its previous…
In May 2011, four International Criminal Court (ICC) witnesses filed applications for asylum in the Netherlands. The witnesses had been brought to The Hague from a prison in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where they had been imprisoned for over five years for their alleged role in the murder of UN peacekeepers. They…
The judgment in the trial of Congolese political leader Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be handed down first in English and later in French, according to a decision judges reached on Tuesday. At a status conference, judges today informed parties to the trial that the gap between the judgment being ready…
The trials of Thomas Lubanga, Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo are coming to a close before the ICC. But what about justice for the millions of other victims of the DRC’s conflict that have not been the subject of ICC charges? In this guest commentary, Patryk Labuda[i] critiques the DRC’s attempts to create domestic justice…
Dear Readers, The following commentary first ran in Legal Eye on the ICC, a regular e-letter produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human rights organisation that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and works with women most affected by the conflict situations under investigation by the…
Dear readers – please find below a commentary written by Olivia Bueno at the International Refugee Rights Initiative in consultation with Congolese activists. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the International Refugee Rights Initiative or of the Open Society Justice Initiative. As the Democratic Republic of…
Pieter W.I. de Baan is the Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He agreed to speak with the Open Society Justice Initiative last month and answer questions about the work of the Trust Fund and its role in assisting victims of mass atrocities. This article also appears…
Dear readers – please find below an article by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice reflecting on some of the gender issues for child soldiers in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. The Women’s Initiatives…
Over five years after the arrest of former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo and two and the half years after the commencement of his trial in The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) reached a significant milestone when on Friday August 26 2011, a three-judge Chamber, presided over by Judge Adrian Fulford officially closed the…
Prosecutors and victims’ advocates presented their closing arguments today in the landmark trial of former Congolese warlord Mr. Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court inThe Hague. More than a dozen lawyers and advocates stood in turn and urged the judges to convict Mr. Lubanga of the war crimes of conscripting, enlisting, and using child…
Thomas Lubanga on trial at the International Criminal Court. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court. A former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubanga is accused of conscripting, enlisting, and using child soldiers. More
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