📢 Don’t miss the SLP team at #ASIL2026 this week!
See upcoming discussions on domestic and international justice mechanisms and country panels on Iran and Sudan featuring SLP Deputy Director Nushin Sarkarati and SLP Senior Legal and Policy Advisor Alyssa Yamamoto.
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A big welcome to our new nonresident senior fellow, Godfrey Odongo!
Odongo is a lawyer with more than two decades of advocacy, research, policy, and teaching experience on international law, human rights, and governance.
Read Godfrey’s full expert page below⚖️
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How is the international human rights system responding to growing geopolitical instability and challenges to authority?
Catch SLP’s Alyssa Yamamoto at tomorrow’s Bernstein Symposium at Yale Law School for a panel on human rights in a shifting global order.
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“No international or domestic prosecutions have meaningfully addressed Iran’s secondary liability for Shahed-enabled crimes.”
SLP’s @celestekmiotek.bsky.social and IPHR’s Anastasiya Donets unpack how the IRI can be held accountable for Russia’s drone war:
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🔴 LIVE | @slpjustice.bsky.social discusses how the Iranian regime can be held accountable for the provision of drones to Russia, featuring Anastasiya Donets, Maia Nikoladze, @celestekmiotek.bsky.social, and Allen Maggard, moderated by @hdagres.bsky.social.
Watch live:
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TOMORROW | 10:00 am ET
Join the SLP, in partnership with the Embassy of Poland, @iphr.bsky.social, and @c4ads.org, for a virtual discussion launching the report “From Tehran to Kyiv: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Role in Russia’s Drone War.”
Watch here ⬇️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/holdin...
HAPPENING NOW | How the UN can respond to the arbitrary detention and repression of Uyghurs
Register at the link below to watch live ⬇️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/how-th...
TOMORROW | 8:00am ET | 1:00pm CET
Don't miss the Strategic Litigation Project's #UNHRC61 side event on international responses to the transnational repression and arbitrary detention of Uyghur communities.
Register at the link below ⤵️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/how-th...
WEDNESDAY | 8:00am ET | 1:00pm CET
Join the SLP, in partnership with @hrw.org, @yalemacmillan.bsky.social, and GCR2P, for an event on the sidelines of #UNHRC61 on the repression and detentions of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and abroad.
Register:
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/how-th...
NEW DATE | How can the Iranian regime be held accountable for the provision of drones to Russia?
Join the SLP on March 31 at 10:00am for a virtual report launch with the Polish Embassy, @iphr.bsky.social, and @c4ads.org.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/holdin...
Yesterday SLP Founder & Director @gissounia.bsky.social spoke at @freedomhouse.bsky.social on paths forward for freedom, justice, and accountability in Iran — watch the full recording at the link below.
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On Tuesday, SLP Director @gissounia.bsky.social will speak on the sidelines of the 70th Session of the Committee on the Status of Women in New York on gender justice and universal jurisdiction.
Head to the FIBGAR website to learn more ⤵️
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Read more about the SLP’s work on codifying the crime of gender apartheid ⤵️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/mid...
Yesterday, SLP Deputy Director Nushin Sarkarati and Founder of the Afghanistan Justice Archive Metra Mehran spoke at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social on how human rights groups are fighting the institutional erasure of Afghan women through international law.
Read more about the SLP’s work on codifying the crime of gender apartheid ⤵️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/mid...
"The solution to international law’s credibility crisis is to improve enforcement for all international crimes, even if the crimes are committed by a state against its own population, as in Iran," writes SLP's @elisebaker.bsky.social in the @washingtonpost.com.
Read more:
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The SLP is proud to cosponsor alongside @globaljusticec.bsky.social, Columbia Law School, Asia Justice Coalition, @egacampaign.bsky.social, @amnesty.org, Washington University Law School, @4genderjustice.org, and the @asilorg.bsky.social's Women in International Law Interest Group.
The event will host experts and activists and facilitate small-group discussions on opportunities for promoting gender justice in the treaty.
Join the Strategic Litigation Project at the 2026 UN Convention on the Status of Women for a civil society workshop on gender justice and the crimes against humanity treaty. #CAHTreatyNow #CSW70
This event has been postponed and will no longer take place on Tuesday, March 3.
Stay tuned for the rescheduled time and date.
🗓️ MARCH 3 @ 10:00 am ET | How can the Iranian regime be held accountable for the provision of drones to Russia?
The SLP hosts a virtual report launch with the Embassy of Poland in Washington DC, @iphr.bsky.social, and @c4ads.org.
Read more ⬇️
www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/holdin...
On January 26, the EU officially designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
This US designated the IRGC in 2019, and an EU designation has been discussed for years. Read @lisandranovo.bsky.social and @celestekmiotek.bsky.social's 2024 analysis unpacking the details.
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The evidence of mass detention of Uyghurs collected by a Chinese dissident "added significant weight to the Trump administration’s own findings that the atrocities amounted to genocide."
Read SLP's @rayhanasat.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
The Strategic Litigation Project is pleased to cosponsor a side event on the margins of the first preparatory committee session for the crimes against humanity treaty.
The event will dig into how countries can enforce the Convention to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity.
A big welcome to our new Nonresident Senior Fellow, Courtney Spivey Urschel!
Courtney Urschel served as the Deputy Chief overseeing the Human Rights portfolio at the Department of Justice, and tripled the number of human rights prosecutions during her tenure.
The SLP is grateful to the survivors, IHRDC, Argentine lawyer Maximo Castex who filed the complaint, and the legal support provided by Nizar El Fakih, @lisandranovo.bsky.social, @saretaashraph.bsky.social, and Nushin Sarkarati.
We will continue to provide updates here.
This means crimes against humanity (CAH) committed by the IRI inside Iran against Iranian victims can be investigated by an Argentina court.
Similar complaints have been filed in Argentina on CAH in Venezuela, genocide against Rohingya in Myanmar & CAH under Franco in Spain.
Argentina’s constitution allows federal courts to investigate & prosecute crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity & war crimes.
Critically on Iran, Argentina doesn't require physical presence of alleged perpetrators in its territory before an investigation can begin.
