Payam Akhavan
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Opinion: Despite trials and tribulations, international criminal justice is still worth pursuing (opens the original)
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Payam Akhavan is a barrister at Twenty Essex Chambers in London and the Human Rights Chair at the University of Toronto’s Massey College. He previously served as the first legal adviser to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. On Aug. 27, Gen. Ratko Mladić, the notorious “Butcher of Bosnia,” died at the UN prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 83. Mr. Mladić was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity and genocide,
Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, dies (opens the original)
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Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a UN-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, has died, a UN official said on Thursday. The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of a war that had lasted over three years, in which the general pounded the besieged capital Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns of his nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000. The de
Opinion: Why small island states are driving the fight against climate change (opens the original)
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Payam Akhavan is a barrister at Twenty Essex Chambers in London and Human Rights Chair at Massey College, University of Toronto. “If you respect nature, nature will respect you.” This is the ancient wisdom of the Indigenous people of Tuvalu, a small island state in the South Pacific Ocean with some 10,000 inhabitants. Those words have particular resonance today because their ancestral home is likely to be submerged within the foreseeable future by alarming sea-level rise and extreme weather even
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