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New Cross-Regional Working Group to end impunity for chemical attacks announced 1 October 2024

Syrian civil society actors have been working over the past year to ensure that states hear their call for the establishment of a new mechanism for justice that would ensure perpetrators of chemical attacks are prosecuted, such as an Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal (ECWT). On 27 September ...

Six criteria for justice for chemical weapon attacks

For years, survivors impacted by chemical weapons have been fighting for accountability for horrific attacks in Syria, alongside humanitarians and human rights defenders. As people who care deeply about justice, they have set out six criteria for justice for chemical weapon attacks – that will send ...

BBC The World Tonight Interviews ECWT supporters on paths towards accountability for the use of chemical weapons in Syria and around the world.

BBC The World Tonight interviews chemical weapons survivors Lubna AlKanawati and Mohamed Katoub, and lawyer Ibrahim Olabi (at 22:35) on the campaign for an exceptional chemical weapons tribunal, pathways to justice and their experiences as victims and survivors of chemical weapons. ...

L'Orient Today - Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunal

"Some kind of justice"- The Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal proposal was launched on Nov. 30, the day victims of chemical attacks are remembered worldwide. The next step will be for states to agree on the wording of a treaty. ...

الجزيرة - سوريون يقودون جهود إنشاء محكمة دولية للأسلحة الكيميائية

أطلقت مجموعات حقوقية سورية وخبراء قانونيون دوليون اليوم الخميس في لاهاي مبادرة لإنشاء محكمة جديدة لمقاضاة من يتهمون باستخدام المواد السامة المحظورة، في حين قالت الشبكة السورية لحقوق الإنسان إن النظام السوري لا يزال يحتفظ بترسانة كيميائية وسط مخاوف من تكرار استخدامها مجددا. ...

SwissInfo - Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunal

A dozen Syrian rights groups, international legal experts and others have quietly spent two years laying the groundwork for a new treaty-based court which could put on trial alleged users of banned toxic agents worldwide. ...

Asharq Al-Awsat - Syrians Lead Push to Create Global Chemical Weapons Tribunal

Illegal chemical weapons attacks killed and injured thousands during Syria's civil war, many of them children, but more than a decade later the perpetrators go unpunished. That could change under an initiative to create a new tribunal for such atrocities launched in The Hague on Thursday. ...

REUTERS - Exclusive: Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunal

A dozen Syrian rights groups, international legal experts and others have quietly spent two years laying the groundwork for a new treaty-based court which could put on trial alleged users of banned toxic agents worldwide. ...

ICTJ - Exclusive: Syrians Lead Push to Create Global Chemical Weapons Tribunal

A dozen Syrian rights groups, international legal experts, and others have quietly spent two years laying the groundwork for a new treaty-based court which could put on trial alleged users of banned toxic agents worldwide. ...

The Washington Post: Criminal trials sought for Syrian officials over poison-gas attacks

The two-year effort to create a new international tribunal reflects growing frustration over the limited ability of the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to prosecute alleged war crimes, including the use of outlawed chemical weapons. Russia has consistently used its international ...