Janet Anderson

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Janet H. Anderson is a journalist and editor covering mass atrocity crimes processes.


As a trainer and mentor she supports NGOs and campaigning journalists in making impact via the media and developing their advocacy skills on a range of human rights subjects. Janet also co-hosts Asymmetrical Haircuts: a podcast providing a gender balance to international criminal justice commentary. Trained by the BBC, she has worked for a wide range of broadcast and published media across Europe and Africa.

Justice Info. Net •

Election of Karim Khan - what battles await the 3rd prosecutor of the International Criminal Court?

JUSTICE INFO IN CAMERA (episode 2) - In good logic, with the election of British lawyer Karim Khan on Friday 12 February, the hotly contested seat of third prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) falls to a European. Khan succeeds the Gambian Fatou Bensouda, who will hand over her post in June, and to the Argentine Luis Moreno Ocampo, for a nine-year mandate. In this second episode of IN CAMERA, we tell how the States Parties to the ICC failed to agree on the selection of a candidate; and why the internal and diplomatic struggles that await Khan will be more decisive than ever for the fragile legitimacy of the Court. By Bronwen Cowley / Featuring our correspondent in The Hague Janet H. Anderson
The Hague Humanity Hub •

Find Out Why - The DeepFake alert

One of The Hague Humanity Hub’s members - Find Out Why - is co-hosting a challenge at this year's The Hague Hackathon for Good in November. Their aim is to get hackers to work on one of the biggest societal and technological problems we face: how to enable people to spot check content before they share it to avoid spreading fake news. Can we have a tool to increase our digital fluency so that people cause less harm and feel empowered? Find Out Why is part of the Humanity Hub community, where innovators and entrepreneurs are working on making world more peaceful and just. They recognise that even though many issues the Hague ecosystem is tackling are huge, they are also interconnected. Check out Find Out Why https://findoutwhy.info/ Read more and register for the DeepFake challenge https://www.hackathonforgood.org/hackathons/the-hague-4/deepfake-alert Check out Hackathon for Good https://www.hackathonforgood.org/hackathons/the-hague-4 #DeepFake #hackers #hackathon
JusticeInfo.net •

The Lebanon Tribunal’s back from the dead – for a moment

It’s been an eventful twelve months for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). In August 2020 the Hague-based judges of this hybrid tribunal pronounced their verdict in the only case this court has brought to trial. They said one person, Hezbollah operative Mohamed Ayyash was guilty of the car bomb that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, while the other three accused were acquitted. In December Ayyash was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the five counts of whi
JusticeInfo.net •

The ICC in times of budget crunch

The atmosphere during the week-long meeting in the cavern-like setting of the World Forum in the Hague was both upbeat and workmanlike. A new court president, a new chair of the States’ meeting and a new prosecutor were all on the top table at the opening session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC). U.S. Sanctions levied over a year ago against the former prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her attempt to investigate alleged United States war crimes in Afg
The Guardian •

The Hague, the ICC, and the economic benefits of being a centre for justice | Janet Anderson

"Send him to The Hague" is the chant adopted by activists the world over when discussing their least favourite war criminal. Yet, although the international criminal court (ICC) has been around for 10 years, it's only in the last few months that building work has started on its permanent location. The Dutch were remarkably slow in catching on to the potential benefits of such a high profile for their sleepy seaside administrative town, even though they parade the country's historical links to t