30 August marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia led to the disappearance of over 35000 people. While approximately 25000 cases have been resolved, the families of over 10,000 missing persons are still searching for their loved ones, more than two decades after the conflicts. The search for the remaining missing is a humanitarian imperative, and an obligation to the families.

The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals hears oral arguments in the Mladić case

The Appeals Chamber
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), composed of Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe, presiding, Judge Aminatta Lois Runeni N’gum, Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam, Judge Seymour Panton, and Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya heard yesterday and today oral arguments in the appeals filed by Mr. Ratko Mladić and the Prosecution against the judgement rendered on 22 November 2017 by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Ratko Mladić appeal hearing taking place on 25 and 26 August 2020: Practical information and case background

Mladić Ratko Appeal Hearing
Mladić Ratko Appeal Hearing
The appeal hearing in the case of Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”) will take place on Tuesday, 25 August 2020 and Wednesday, 26 August 2020 in Courtroom I of the Mechanism's Hague branch, pursuant to the “Decision on the Scheduling of the Appeal Hearing and a Status Conference” issued by the Mechanism's Appeals Chamber on 17 July 2020.

UN Secretary-General reappoints Judge Carmel Agius as Mechanism President and renews terms of Mechanism Judges

President Carmel Agius
President Carmel Agius
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Judge Carmel Agius to a second term of office as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), with effect from 1 July 2020 until 30 June 2022.

UN Security Council reappoints Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and completes review of Mechanism’s progress of work

Prosecutor Serge Brammertz
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz

The United Nations Security Council, by resolution 2529 (2020), yesterday reappointed Prosecutor Serge Brammertz to a new term as Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), with effect from 1 July 2020 until 30 June 2022. Prosecutor Brammertz has served as Prosecutor of the Mechanism since 1 March 2016. Previously, he served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1 January 2008 until its closure at the end of 2017.

Video Lecture Programme on ICTY legacy concludes with a talk by Registrar Elias

Registrar Olufemi Elias
Registrar Olufemi Elias
The first cycle of the Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme) “International Law and Facts Established before the ICTY” concluded today with a lecture delivered by Mr. Olufemi Elias, Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), entitled “Role and functions of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals”.
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