International Criminal Law Services

ICTR-transfer and extradition cases to Rwanda: “Commentary” on Rwanda’s Transfer Law

gabriel — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:57:31 +0000

As part of its Rwanda capacity-enhancement project, ICLS is publishing a “commentary” on Rwanda’s Transfer Law. The law is meant to facilitate the transfer of cases from the ICTR to Rwanda under rule 11bis of the ICTR Rules of Procedure and Evidence and the extradition of suspects accused of genocide and other atrocity crimes to Rwanda from foreign countries. The “Notes on Rwanda’s Transfer Law” (”Notes sur la Loi relative au Transfert du Rwanda“) are meant to assist practitioners and others in Rwanda and elsewhere working on transfer and extradition cases. See Projects for more information on the Rwanda capacity-enhancement project.

Suggestions for lessons-learned studies to strengthen the ICC: report

gabriel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:20:04 +0000

Dr Gideon Boas and ICLS’ Executive Director, Mr Gabriël Oosthuizen, completed a study identifying International Criminal Court-relevant gaps in lessons-learned studies in relation to various international and hybrid criminal courts, including the UN international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. See their report “Suggestions for future lessons-learned studies: the experience of other international and hybrid criminal courts of relevance to the International Criminal Court“. It is hoped that the report will spur comprehensive lessons-learned studies in key identified areas, and that such studies would help the ICC meet its key challenges more proficiently and efficiently. See Projects for the disclaimer and more details on the project.

Media workshops on international criminal justice in Kenya and Uganda

gabriel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:33:44 +0000

ICLS is concluding a collaborating with Ms Bettina Ambach on a project aimed at, among other goals, raising awareness of international criminal justice issues among radio journalists in Kenya and Uganda. The 2-week workshop in Kenya was successfully concluded in mid-December 2009, and the Uganda workshop, in September. See Projects for more details.

ICLS report taken into account in Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative decisions extending presence of international judges and prosecutors

gabriel — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:26:24 +0000

The conclusions of the ICLS report, “Final report of the International Criminal Law Services (ICLS) experts on the sustainable transition of the Registry and international donor support to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009″, were taken into account by the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in his recent decisions extending the presence of international judges and prosecutors in the State Court and State Prosecutor’s Office in BiH. The ICLS experts were Mr David Tolbert and Mr Aleksandar Kontic. See Projects for links to the report, the decisions, and for more project details.

Capacity-enhancement of Rwandan prosecutors and investigators

gabriel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:17:38 +0000

ICLS is partnering with the Institute of Legal Practice and Development (ILPD) and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) on a project to enhance the capacity of Rwandan investigators and prosecutors to deal with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes cases (other than gacaca cases) in that country. A training event involving more than 20 Rwandan prosecutors was recently held in Kigali. Follow-up work is being undertaken at present. See Projects for more details.