29 January 2025 The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) welcomes the announcement made by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 23 January 2025 concerning the filing of applications for warrants of arrest before the Pre-Trial...
28 September 2023 The Australian Centre for International Justice has launched the landmark policy paper, ‘Challenging Impunity: Why Australia Needs a Permanent, Specialised International’ Crimes Unit’. The paper explores the rise in domestic accountability processes...
12 September 2023 Joint Media Release: Civil society, journalists, unions, lawyers and ex-judges call for an end to whistleblower prosecutions More than 70 organisations and individuals have signed a letter to the Australian government, published in newspapers today,...
1 June 2023 Joint Press Release: Truth triumphs in Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes defamation verdict Today, the Federal Court of Australia delivered its judgment in the defamation case brought by former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith against The Age, Sydney Morning...
21 March 2023 Joint Press Release: Human rights groups welcome the first war crimes charge relating to conduct of Australian special forces in Afghanistan The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) and the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy...
Discussion: Reckoning with the legacy of war crimes in Afghanistan Melbourne, Saturday 28 January 2023 In recent years, much information has come to light about human rights abuses by members of Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The Brereton Report,...