6 December 2023 – Support for a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty For more than a decade there have been global efforts to consider and develop a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty, in order to remedy a significant gap in international law, being the absence of a...
24 August 2023 Submission: International Criminal Justice and Victims’ Rights: Missing Pieces in Australia’s Human Rights Framework In July 2023, ACIJ provided its written submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights to its Inquiry into...
1 June 2023 Submission: Supporting democracy in the region by addressing impunity In December 2022, ACIJ made a written submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to assist...
22 May 2023 In Ljubljana, Slovenia, the diplomatic conference on the adoption of the Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, and other International Crimes, also known...
Originally posted 25 November 2022; updated 1 June 2023 Submission: Australia’s obligation to investigate crimes of torture In November 2022, ACIJ made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture concerning the duty to investigate crimes of torture in...
20 October 2021 On 13 October 2021 ACIJ made a submission to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee as part of the Committee’s Inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan. The Inquiry was established in September 2021 to examine...
