President Theodor Meron yesterday presented the sixth Annual Report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) to the United Nations General Assembly (Assembly), highlighting the most notable developments in the Mechanism’s work in the past year.
Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will visit Belgrade from 22 to 24 October, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the UN Security Council (UNSC).
The Prosecutor will meet with President Aleksandar Vučić, Minister of Justice Nela Kuburović and Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Snežana Stanojković to discuss the implementation of the National War Crimes Strategy, regional judicial cooperation in war crimes cases and support from the Mechanism Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to Serbian authorities’ efforts to achieve justice for war crimes.
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Theodor Meron, on Friday delivered remarks on the role of international law in combatting impunity at the One Young World Summit in The Hague. The Summit, which took place between 17 and 20 October, gathered a number of distinguished speakers from civil society, the business sector and government and brought together some 1,500 young leaders from around the world in order to debate, formulate and share innovative solutions for the pressing issues faced by the world.
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the Mechanism OTP and Vice President Gilles Carbonnier of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Geneva to promote their cooperation in the search for persons still missing from the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) has today made available the dataset from the 2016 research report entitled “Echoes of Testimonies: A Pilot Study into the long-term impact of bearing witness before the ICTY”. The study was conducted by the Victims and Witness Section (VWS) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Castleberry Peace Institute of the University of North Texas (UNT).
Prosecutor Brammertz is taking part in a two-day conference in Zagreb entitled “Justice after The Hague”, organised by the Serb National Council, Council of the Serb National Minority for the City of Zagreb, Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past and SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice. The conference brought together prosecutors, members of the civil society, victim’s organisations, journalists and scholars.
Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will visit Zagreb on 9 and 10 October, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the UN Security Council (UNSC).
The Prosecutor will meet with Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković and Chief State Attorney Dražen Jelenić to discuss war crimes processing in Croatia and regional judicial cooperation in war crimes cases.
The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Mr. Olufemi Elias, will be on an official visit to Zagreb, the Republic of Croatia, from 3 to 4 October 2018.
As part of the visit, Registrar Elias will meet with the Croatian Minister of Justice, Mr. Dražen Bošnjaković, to discuss the ongoing cooperation between the Mechanism and the Croatian authorities, as well as the possible establishment of an information centre on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Zagreb.
