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In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq
17 January 2025 by Bojan Gavrilovic
The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a s [...]
Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014. Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]
UNITAD teams on the ground in Iraq, helping to find mass graves where victims of the Islamic State organisation were buried. Photo: investigators and technicians (one wearing a waistcoat bearing the United Nations logo) work on a mass grave site. UNITAD’s unfulfilled goals for ISIS accountability in Iraq
19 November 2024 by Hawre Ahmed
On 17 September 2024, UNITAD, the United Nations Investigative team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Daesh/ISIS, concluded its mandate after seven years. Human rights activist and jurist Hawre Ahmed says the UN bo [...]
Trial in the Netherlands for the slavery of Yezidi women in Syria - Photo: a Yezidi woman victim of slavery poses in profile in Syria. “IS saw the Yazidis as objects, not people”
22 October 2024 by Margherita Capacci
From October 14 to 17, victims’ testimonies were shared in the trial of a Dutch national accused of holding two Yazidi women as house slaves in Syria. The accused had travelled in 2015 with her four-year-old son and married an Isl [...]
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Yazidi woman in Iraq
27 February 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice? In the early hours of August 3rd 2014 Islamic State militants launched a coordinated attack and forcibly took over the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi people. In the days and weeks that followed, approximately 1 [...]
Crimes against Yazidis - Kurds demonstrate in the Netherlands in support of the Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, victims of Islamic State violence.
22 May 2023 by Margherita Capacci
Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis The first trial for crimes against the Yazidis is about to open in the Netherlands. The defendant, Hasna Aarab, is a 31-year-old Dutch national woman from Hengelo, a town in the East of the country. She is facing charges of slaver [...]
Colonel aviator Peter Tankink and Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld hold a press conference in The Hague on November 2019, about the deadly attack by a Dutch F-16 on Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.
18 November 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Hawija: from remote warfare to distant justice This was only one of its 35 thousands missions. When the Dutch Air Force hit the Iraqi city of Hawija in 2015 as part of the war against Islamic State, it killed 70 civilians. But the impact, in a chain, to the health, to educatio [...]
14 October 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine? “Don’t over document” warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan in a recent meeting held in The Hague with Eurojust, in an address to civil society organizations, referring to situations in Myanmar, Syria [...]
A woman and young Yezidi refugee girls
7 December 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi In the German city of Frankfurt, Iraqi national Taha al-J. has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of a young Yazidi girl he enslaved. It is the first time worldwide that a court convicts a member of the organization Is [...]
British lawyer Karim Khan walks in the streets of the holy city of Najaf in central Iraq
15 June 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Karim Khan - leaving an investigative team for a court “At UNITAD, we are an investigative team on the lookout for a court,” says British lawyer Karim Khan after having led the Daesh / ISIL investigations for the last three years. The man who is about to take over this week from Gambi [...]
Daesh family back in
19 February 2021 by Charles Thiefaine
Iraqi tribal justice put to the test as Islamic State families return The upcoming closure of the last camp for internally displaced persons in Iraq, Jeddah 5 in the province of Mosul, raises the issue of the return of families affiliated with the Islamic State, some of whose members were combatants [...]
5 February 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered Two landmark trials in Germany have been dealing with crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Syria and Iraq. So far, they have not focused on sexual and gender-based violence. Civil party lawyers in both Koble [...]
16 April 2019 by Charles Thiefaine
Iraq: A day with Islamic State suspects at Tel Keppe tribunal A day at the Tel Keppe anti-terrorist tribunal, north of Mosul. A dozen individuals appear here each day accused of having joined Islamic State. Some are accused of torture, and some have been tortured to obtain confessions. The t [...]
6 November 2018 by Ludovica Iaccino
Fanie du Toit: “Religious extremism is discredited amongst most Iraqis” Fanie du Toit, former executive director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa, is the technical advisor of a United Nations project, ‘Support for Integrated Reconciliation in Iraq’, that tries since 2016 [...]
1 June 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Iraq: Impartial Justice Effort Needed A new United Nations investigation of crimes committed by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Iraq was not given the mandate that the situation calls for, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 31, 2018, the United Nations se [...]
22 February 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Unfair ISIS Trial in Iraq Hands Women Harshest Sentences Six months after about 1,400 foreign women and children surrendered with Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to Iraqi security forces, Iraq’s courts are sentencing the women to life in prison and even to death for non-violent crimes. It [...]
25 January 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Iraq: “Saving manuscripts is also saving people” What is the point of saving culture if you can’t save people? That seems a derisory question in the spiral of violence hitting Iraq and Syria for years. But not for Father Najeeb. He has managed to save thousands of precious manus [...]
21 July 2017 by AFP
Mosul's Christians face dilemma after Islamic State The jihadists may have been ousted from their Iraqi hometown of Mosul but many Christians like Haitham Behnam refuse to go back and trade in the stability of their new lives. "There's no security, no protection for Christians back [...]
22 June 2017 by AFP
Mosul minaret destruction 'deepens wounds' of Iraqis: UNESCO The destruction by jihadists of Mosul's leaning minaret "deepens the wounds" in war-torn Iraq, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova said Thursday. Calling in a statement for "immediate and strengthened international mobilisation," the head o [...]
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