Core international crimes
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27 May 2024|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
Witness protection and support in core international crimes and universal jurisdiction cases within international and national jurisdictions. Challenges encountered in witness protection for core international crimes (pre, post and during trial) Necessity to safeguard the safety and security of...
23 May 2024|PRESS RELEASE
Since the genocide against the Tutsi and other massacres against moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994, judicial authorities in Europe, Rwanda and a UN tribunal have opened thousands of formal investigations and court cases against alleged perpetrators. In addition to the over 10 000 individuals tried by...
19 April 2024|PRESS RELEASE
High-level representatives and prosecutors from the United States, the European Union, international organizations, and civil society have been taking stock of the latest developments and cooperation tools for the use of battlefield evidence collected in the context of an armed conflict. During a...
29 February 2024|AVAILABLE IN 8 LANGUAGES
Just three weeks following the full-scale invasion by Russia in 2022, Eurojust supported the establishment of a JIT on alleged core international crimes committed in Ukraine. On 29 February 2024, the JIT agreement was prolonged for two more years. In-between, Eurojust and its partners set up a...
29 February 2024|PRESS RELEASE
Available in: Estonian Latvian Lithuanian Polish Romanian Slovak Ukrainian The seven national authorities participating in the joint investigation team (JIT) on alleged core international crimes committed in Ukraine have agreed to prolong the JIT for two years. The Prosecutors General of the...
13 February 2024|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
This factsheet, developed by the JITs Network Secretariat and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, presents the ways in which the International Criminal Court may be involved in joint investigation teams, the benefits of their involvement, and the support that Eurojust...
17 November 2023|NEWS
The 34th Genocide Network meeting on 15-16 November 2023 focused on the investigation and prosecution of core international crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria. With many ongoing investigations and prosecutions of crimes committed by EU nationals joining ISIL and...
15 November 2023|NEWS
The U.S. Department of State has announced that it will provide USD 1 million to the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), established at Eurojust.
19 October 2023|AVAILABLE IN 24 LANGUAGES
This paper provides a comparative overview of the way in which EU Member States, Genocide Network Observer States and Ukraine have implemented the crime of aggression in their domestic laws. How is the crime of aggression defined in national criminal codes? Have the majority of states adopted the...
11 October 2023|AVAILABLE IN 24 LANGUAGES
This report outlines the most prominent cases in which the European Court of Human Rights evaluated the application of Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 7 provides that ‘no one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which...
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