In March 2022, Bellingcat and the Global Legal Action Network officially announced the launch of the Justice and Accountability Unit, a joint initiative seeking to fuse the organizations’ respective areas of expertise to hold wrongdoers to account. [...] At the beginning of my fellowship, my broad ambition was to further develop my experience and expertise in the use of open-source investigations in international law. [...] Specifically, my supervisors asked me to delve into the case law and to find examples of facts which met the thresholds of each of the constituent elements of crimes against humanity under international law. [...] To that end, I reviewed all crimes against humanity cases from the International Criminal Court, as well as a significant number of cases from both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. [...] I am grateful to my supervisors for giving me the opportunity to help build the legal expertise of Ukrainian lawyers.
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