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Justice is an asymmetrical balance between the law and the reason of the powerful, and international justice is no exception to this rule. Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg are Justice Info’s correspondents in The Hague. Two journalists, one haircut. They started a podcast to talk about international justice with experts and commentators they wanted to hear more of. At least once in a month, Justice Info opens its ears, with Asymmetrical Haircuts, to their dissenting and enlightening voices. Please stay tuned!

Rohingya women from Myanmar, in Bangladesh.
How Argentina deals with sexual crimes against the Rohingya
9 May 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
An Argentine court ordered arrest warrants against Myanmar’s military leadership for genocide against the Rohingya community. But why do we need Argentina when several international institutions are already involved?
British soldiers from the Royal Air Force conduct a patrol outside Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. Afghanistan: investigations, a bit of truth but no justice
17 April 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Investigations on war crimes in Afghanistan initiated in the UK, Australia, Netherlands, are producing limited results. To try and find out why, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts have invited in this new podcast Iain Overton, Thijs Bouwknegt, Ben Saul, and Rachel Reid.
Women and children in Sudan Sexual Violence in Sudan
3 April 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Sudan’s civil has devastated the country. An estimated 10,000 people were killed and more than six million displaced. There has also been widespread sexual violence. “It’s beyond dire situations,” says Hala Al-Karib.
Representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities attend a two-day national dialogue conference in Damascus (Syria) Seeking justice in Syria: the advantages of the Assad regime
27 March 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Trying to figure out the landscape of mass crimes justice initiatives on Syria, after the fall of former president Bashar el-Assad, can only be an uncertain prediction game. In this podcast, Uğur Üngör talks about what we know.
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US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington
7 March 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The US against the world order Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts were in a post-punk witty mood when they released this new and timely podcast. They played with Joy Division’s cult song and called this program: “Law Will Tear U.S. Apart Again.” That was a g [...]
Parents and peers of killed or missing students during a press conference on October 6, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Authorities discovered over the weekend six adjoining pits containing 28 bodies, some badly burned and in pieces, on a hill outside the Guerrero state city of Iguala, where the students were last seen.
27 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Enforced disappearances in Mexico On the night of September 26, 2014, 43 students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in the state of Guerrero, approximately 300 km south of Mexico City. Initially, the state authorities said they were abducted and [...]
What justice for the victims in Afghanistan? An Afghan girl stands at the entrance of her house near a destroyed compound, in the old part of Kabul, on April 10, 2010.
6 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why Afghan victims still wait for Australian compensations In this latest podcast from our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts, we follow on with a series of episodes on Australia’s investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by its troops in Afghanistan. They discuss and highlight [...]
Official portrait of Major General Jeff Sengelman who led the Australian military operations in Afghanistan.
30 January 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan: “I am one of them” “It was really ugly, and it continues to be hurtful, but we called ourselves out,” Major General Jeff Sengelman says. Today, we broadcast an exclusive interview with the man who played a key role in creating “the command climate”, [...]
Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump scuffle as they wait for a verdict in Trump's hush money criminal trial outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024 in New York City.
16 January 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Pursuing universal jurisdiction on the eve of Trump’s era If there is a strong sense that there will be a before Trump II and an after – for the United States as well as for the world – this podcast will stand as how America was right before. It was recorded by our partners at Asymmetric [...]
ICC & Syria - An aerial photo shows people gathering around Saydnaya prison in Syria.
10 December 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Syria opens its prisons, ICC’s ASP closes its doors Without warning, Bashar el-Assad relinquished power and fled to Russia. This new Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast opens the discussion on Syria, following the opening of prisons and calls for accountability after decades with very li [...]
Israel & Palestine - ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. Photo: Palestinians walk on a dirt road lined with rubble from destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.
25 November 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
After the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant It took 6 months for a decision to be issued. It was a tortuous process. Several dozens of states and organizations intervened in a “circus of amicus curiaes submissions over the summer,” as remembers Sergey Vasiliev, law professo [...]
Women rights in Afghanistan - Veiled women leave a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan
12 November 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Gender apartheid at the forefront of international justice Gender apartheid is a new frontline of international justice, as Justice Info recently highlighted. The guest in this new episode of our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners, Karima Bennoune, is currently campaigning for this alleged cr [...]
In a street in Boutcha, Ukraine, journalists filmed and photographed burnt corpses being handled by people to move them.
18 October 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Meet Ukraine’s Evidence Gatherers Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office says they have about 130,000 potential incidents of war crimes, and issued 250 notices of suspicion. Courts convicted more than a hundred, most of those in absentia. But before you have a trial, you o [...]
Barbed wire fence is pictured at the Lithuanian- Belarusian border in Sadziunai, Lithuania.
11 October 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Lithuania, Belarus and the ICC Lithuania is up for lawfare. A member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it has sparked an ICC preliminary inquiry by submitting a referral to investigate Belarus, a non-member state, for crimes against humanity. It [...]
Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees - Photo: Israeli army soldiers arrest a blindfolded man in Tubas in the north of the occupied West Bank.
12 September 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees What’s happening in Israeli prisons and military camps? How has Israel investigated allegations of serious abuse against Palestinian detainees? What role is the judicial system playing? Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts Janet [...]
Signing of an agreement between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Ukraine.
6 September 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How Ukraine (nearly) joined the ICC Ten years after their first referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ukraine has finally become a member of the court on August 21. Ukraine’s parliament’s ratification comes as a surprise to many, not because it hasn’t [...]
Russian hate Speech - Photo : Vladimir Solovyov.
12 July 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting Russian hate speech What is ‘hate speech’ and can it be prosecuted as an international crime? In Ukraine, Russian propaganda has targeted Ukrainians as ‘Nazis’, ‘pigs’ or ‘dogs’ and it’s been used to justify crimes. In this podcast by our partners at [...]
Palestine vs Israel: the legal battles. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
5 July 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
States vs ICC: the legal battles ahead on Palestine/Israel What does complementarity between states and the International Criminal Court (ICC) actually means? What’s the test applied by the court? How did it evolve over the years? Do previous examples help understand the situation in Isra [...]
Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
28 June 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war According to the United Nations, there’s been a pattern of sexual violence across Ukraine and the number and consistent reports of sexual violence and rape in Russian-occupied areas suggest “a widespread and systematic pattern com [...]
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