International criminal lawyer, diplomat, professor, mom, yogini
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Hi friends - from now on, I will be tweeting in my prof. capacity here: @StateDept_GCJ. Join me as I work to advance accountability from my gov’t perch.
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UPDATE - Trump nominee Jeremy Carl finally gets a hearing next week in Senate Foreign Relations Committee… another White Nationalist, anti-Semitic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynist — who has deleted thousands of tweets.
@SenatorHagerty is on the committee. Will he back him?
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“8 million people have left Venezuela since 2014.” — Marco Rubio on Maduro, Drugs & Immigration
In case you missed it: thereset.news/p/breaking-her…
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The Burmese military junta unleashed horrific violence against its own people—killing civilians and crushing dissent.
Ripping TPS away from those who fled that brutality and rebuilt their lives here in the U.S. is morally bankrupt.
cbsnews.com/news/myanmar-tps…
Such powerful footage of the horror that is Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
Great to see 60 Minutes interview of a foremost expert on this subject.
Ambassador @BethVanSchaack on Russia's systematic war crimes in Ukraine
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He was 15 years old. His turban was too large for his small frame. And he was my torturer.
In 1998, I was a student activist in a Taliban prison cell.
In 2020, I sat across the table from the Taliban leadership as a negotiator for the Republic.
This is the story of the distance between those two rooms🧵
📍 Kabul University
Just days before my imprisonment.
ALT Days before imprisonment. Kabul University
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, name-dropped Fordham Law Prof. Catherine Powell (@ProfCatherine)'s co-authored @CFR_org brief, while moderating an event w/ Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Watch beg. @ 24:19: youtube.com/live/Hami3lD8MeY…
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A new groundbreaking report from @NewLinesInst backed by over a dozen leading experts confirms the #Hazara community in #Afghanistan has been the target of genocide. 1/7
My detailed essay in @TheNatlInterest
nationalinterest.org/blog/si…
Looking forward to attending the IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025;hashtags= ibanet.org/conference-detail…
Thrilled to be a part of this effort at the @SLPJustice!!
The Strategic Litigation Project is honored to welcome Ambassador @BethVanSchaack, who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice from March 2022 to January 2025, as a Distinguished Fellow.
Read her bio below ⬇️
On this Mothers’ Day, a powerful defense of the Women, Peace & Security imperative by two principals of the Alliance for Diplomacy & Justice: desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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More than 55 Syrian and international NGOs call on Trump to ease the Assad-era sanctions on Syria. Assad is gone by they are harming the Syrian people, crippling their economy and making it more likely that jihadists will profit from their despair.
snhr.org/blog/2025/05/10/55-…
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It's strange to think it would be at all controversial to post this. But in a time of moral decay, the obvious becomes controversial.
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1/ RM @RepGregoryMeeks: Whether parts of this draft EO ever reach Trump’s desk, it’s already clear this administration is determined to gut the @StateDept and run American diplomacy and development capabilities into the ground.
nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/po…
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A historic ruling by the Helsinki District Court—a Russian combatant has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and torturing captured Ukrainian soldiers. This is the first #RussianWarCrimes case outside Ukraine to result in a court verdict, sending a strong message that the world will not allow war criminals to escape justice.
I commend the rigorous work of Finnish prosecutors and investigators, as well as their Ukrainian colleagues, who provided crucial assistance and shared evidence to ensure a just punishment for this war criminal.
The Helsinki District Court sentenced a Russian citizen, a member of the ‘Rusich’ unit, to life imprisonment for war crimes in Ukraine. @GP_Ukraine deeply appreciates the efforts of @krp_poliisi and Finnish prosecutors who made this conviction possible.
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Syria caretaker authorities must ensure that those accused of committing crimes are held accountable, & that women, children & diverse ethnic & religious communities can fully exercise their rights.
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(1/2) The Taliban’s ban against UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett visiting Afghanistan and the recent alarming vice and virtue decree continue to make clear the Taliban are doubling down on the extreme policies they imposed in the 1990s.
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The RSCSL report on the Legacy Conference, held in Freetown in February is now online. Read it at rscsl.org/press-releases/rsc…
The RSCSL Legacy Conference brought together more than 300 prominent jurists, diplomats, legal scholars, members of the RSCSL Oversight Committee...
Could not have sent it better myself…
Liberian civil society actors & victims should be commended for their work for justice & a War and Economic Crimes Court. I am disappointed that the June 13 Lantos Commission hearing devolved into an attack on these activists. My Statement for the Record:
humanrightscommission.house.…
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Our @TheJusticeDept continues to use all our legal authorities to hold Russia and its personnel to account for all facets of its war of aggression in Ukraine.