Ralph Wilde Profile picture
Aug 18 25 tweets 14 min read
1/ Launch of my Legal Opinion for the Myanmar Accountability Project @MyanmarAProject explaining why the National Unity Government of Myanmar has validly provided consent for the International Criminal Court to exercise jurisdiction #ICC #Myanmar tinyurl.com/2p89jjwb
2/ Full text of the Legal Opinion
the-world-is-watching.org/wp-content/upl…
3/ @opiniojuris blogpost on the Legal Opinion including summary
opiniojuris.org/2022/08/17/can…
4/ Tomorrow, Friday 19 August 2022, 6.30pm Myanmar (noon UTC) a webinar will be held to present and discuss the Opinion and the case for accountability more generally. Registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_…
5/ Speakers: @aung_myo_minn, NUG Minister for Human Rights; @waiwainu, Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network in Myanmar and former political prisoner; @AntoniaMulvey, Director Legal Action Worldwide
6/ Speakers continued: Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Africa; and myself.
7/ Article based on the Opinion, "The ICC Must Engage With Myanmar’s Democratic Government and Hold the Junta to Account" in The Diplomat thediplomat.com/.../the-icc-mu…
8/ Article authors: John Dugard, Emeritus Professor of Law @LeidenLaw and @WitsSchoolofLaw; former Ad Hoc Judge @CIJ_ICJ; former Member @UN International Law Commission and UN Special Rapporteur Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory @UN_SPExperts
9/ Authors cont.: Chris Gunness @MyanmarAProject (Director Myanmar Accountability Project); Tommy Thomas (former Attorney General of Malaysia); Yuyun Wahyuningrum @Wahyuningrum (Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights) and myself
10/ Expert colleagues in international law who kindly endorsed the Opinion (thank you very much!):
a) @AakenAnne Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, Hamburg University, former Vice President, @esil_sedi
11/ (endorsers continued)
b) Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, @UN_SProcedures, Associate Professor of International Law @LSELaw and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Human Rights, LSE @LSEnews
12/ (endorsers continued)
c) @PLivinec, Professor of International Law and Director, Le CEDIN (Centre de droit international de Nanterre) de l'Université Paris Nanterre, Director of Studies, @ILA_official
13/ (endorsers continued)
d) @BourdonWilliam2, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, Founding President of Sherpa, President of PPLAF (Platform to Protect Whistle Blowers in Africa) @PPLAAF
14/ (endorsers continued)
e) Radhika Coomaraswamy, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations @UN and UN Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict
15/ (endorsers cont.) f) @MarzukiDrsmn, Former Attorney-General of Indonesia, @UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in N Korea, Chair of the @UN_HRC Independent Intl Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar; Founder of the Foundation for Intl Human Rights Reporting Standards @FIHRRST
16/ (endorsers cont.) g) John Dugard, Emeritus Professor of Law @LeidenLaw and @WitsSchoolofLaw; former Ad Hoc Judge @CIJ_ICJ; former Member @UN International Law Commission and UN Special Rapporteur Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory @UN_SPExperts
17/ (endorsers cont.) h) Baltasar Garzón, Magistrate-judge, lawyer. Director of the legal office ILOCA SL (International Legal Organization for Cooperation and Development), Spain
18/ (endorsers cont.) i) @JaredGenser, human rights defender, Adjunct Professor of Law, @GeorgetownLaw j) Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Africa
19/ (endorsers cont.) k) @fredericmegret Professor of Law, Co-director, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, @LawMcGill; former Executive Board member, @esil_sedi; former Attaché and consultant @ICRC and French delegation, Rome Conference on the creation the ICC in 1998
20/ (endorsers cont.) l) Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus, @OpenSociety, founding Executive Director @hrw
21/ (endorsers cont.) m) @kathryn_sikkink, Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard @Kennedy_School
22/ (endorsers cont.) n) Yasmin Sooka, Chair of the @UN Commission on Human Rights for the South Sudan; Executive Director, Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa; trustee, Desmond Tutu Peace Centre; former member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
23/ (endorsers cont.) o) Tommy Thomas, former Attorney General of Malaysia
24/ (endorsers cont.) p) Nelum Deepika Udagama, Professor of Law, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and Former Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (2015-20)
25/ (endorsers cont.) q) @pal_wrange Professor of Public International Law, @Stockholm_Uni, Director of the @SCILJ_SU, member of the Swedish Government International Law and Disarmament Delegation, member @PCA_CPA, member of the Executive Board of @esil_sedi

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Ralph Wilde

Ralph Wilde Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ralphwilde

Aug 6
1/ New Policy Brief: bit.ly/ralph-wilde-pa…. This explains the relevance of international law to the question of whether and when the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza should end. Summary follows. Image
2/ The Palestinian people have the right of external self-determination in international law, a right which forms part of international human rights law. According to this right, the occupation should end.
3/ There is a widespread misconception that as far as international law is concerned, the realization of this – when it happens, and on what basis – depends on a peace agreement being reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Read 12 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(