• Afghanistan: representing an Afghani human rights defender, who had to flee Afghanistan following his arrest and torture by Taliban for his advocacy and human rights work. 

 

• Sudan: representing Sudanese civilians, summitted communication to the Prosecutor’s Officer of the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to Article 15 alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Rapid Support Forced on civilians.

 

• Kosovo: at Kosovo Specialist Chambers assisted lead Counsel, who represented Nasim Haradinaj, who served as Deputy Chairman of the KLA (War Veteran’s Association), during his trial for public order offences and offences against the administration of justice.

 

• Yemen: communication to the ICC contending that an investigation should commence into the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was argued that the ICC has jurisdiction over the existing situation in Yemen, an ICC non-member state, utilising previous similar successful arguments regarding the ICC jurisdiction over cross-border crimes in the case of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh. 

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• Myanmar: contributed to amicus curiae submission to the ICC concerning whether the ICC had territorial jurisdiction over the deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar into Bangladesh. It was argued that because the crime of deportation involved crossing an international border into Bangladesh—which is an ICC member state—part of the act occurred on territory where the Court has jurisdiction.

 

• Syria: contributed to the international efforts for the creation of The Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal, a proposed international court launched by Syrian civil society groups and legal experts to prosecute chemical weapons attacks in Syria and worldwide.

 

• Advising governments: advising governments on a wide range of justice and human rights reforms.

 

• Latin America: supporting ethnic and civil society communities in Colombia and Nicaragua—to participate in formal transitional justice mechanisms, focussing on accountability, protecting victims’ rights, and fighting impunity.

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• UN mechanism and special procedures: submitting various complaints regarding human rights violations such as to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

 

• European Court of Human Rights: assisted lead Counsel in landmark case of Abu Zubaydah v Poland. Poland was complicit in CIA secret detention and torture of AZ allegedly a terrorist involved in 9/11 attacks. 

 

• Council of Europe: worked on pressing issues such as the annexation of Crimea by Russia, foreign terrorist fighters, and the accession of the EU to the ECHR.