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Universal Jurisdiction Tag

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04/09/2025

The Danish Parliament approved a legislative reform on December 17, 2024; this historic action introduced a new chapter on international crimes into the country’s Penal Code. This amendment, which came into effect on January 1, 2025, explicitly criminalizes war crimes, torture, and crimes against humanity, consolidating Denmark’s commitment to the principle of universal jurisdiction. The reform...

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02/09/2025

Recently, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances published a highly significant study on universal criminal jurisdiction in cases of enforced disappearance. The report examines the normative foundations, practical and political challenges in its application, as well as the situation in various countries, including Spain. The debate on universal jurisdiction in cases of...

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26/08/2025

In 2011, the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrations by the Syrian regime marked the beginning of an armed conflict that has left a deep scar on contemporary history. Two years later, in 2013, the situation escalated when the UN Mission to Investigate the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria confirmed the use of sarin gas...

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13/08/2025

On June 6, 2024, the German Parliament approved a landmark legislative reform: the Law for the Development of International Criminal Law, which came into force in August of the same year. This measure represents a decisive step forward in strengthening universal jurisdiction in Germany and effectively protecting the rights of victims of international crimes. The reform...

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08/08/2025

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is an international grassroots solidarity movement that brings together campaigns and initiatives from various countries with a common goal: to break the illegal Israeli blockade on Gaza. This commitment took shape once again last June with the departure of the ship Madleen, which set sail from the port of Catania,...

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17/07/2025

Yesterday, the Joint Declaration on the Conclusion of the Emergency Conference on Palestine, convened by the Hague Group, was adopted in Bogotá. This marks a significant moment in the fight against international impunity, as more than thirty countries, brought together at the initiative of the Governments of Colombia and South Africa, gathered to coordinate legal...

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04/07/2025

Last Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the National Chamber of Criminal Cassation, Argentina's highest criminal court, issued a landmark ruling that reinforces the principle of universal jurisdiction and opens a door of hope for the Uyghur people. The court unanimously ruled that there are no legal impediments to open a criminal case for crimes against humanity...

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16/08/2024

Universal Jurisdiction is of the utmost importance for all those who fight for human rights, as it is an indispensable mechanism of justice whose objective is the fight against impunity derived from the commission of international crimes. For decades, a series of proceedings were opened before Spanish courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction, such as...

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17/07/2024

Today, July 17, we celebrate International Criminal Justice Day, a date all the more relevant as the world faces turbulent times. This day commemorates the historic adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the international community at a diplomatic conference in Rome on July 17, 1998. It marked the end of a long...

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