One of our main activities is organising and hosting Luncheon Briefings on pertinent topics of EU-Asia relations. Beginning with an informal lunch, the Briefings usually last for 1.5 hours, including questions.

Attendees include EIAS members and other interested parties.

Experts wishing to discuss a possible topic for a Lucheon Briefing are invited to contact EIAS Direct Dr Willem van der Geest.

International Criminal Justice in Asia: From the Tokyo Trials to the ICC
25 January 2005, EIAS, Brussels

Asia has been the scene of serious human rights violations, often committed during armed conflict or serious civil unrest, such as in Afghanistan, East Timor, parts of Indonesia, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, regions of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Unstable political situations and traditionally weak human rights protection have contributed to a pervasive climate of impunity towards violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

Denial of justice in respect of human rights violations has undermined human security, development and the rule of law in many Asian countries over time. Given the pattern of failure on the part of some Asian Governments to prevent human rights and humanitarian law violations, it has become essential to consider what avenues at the international level could assist these Governments to provide justice and redress.

Dr. Bottigliero's presentation will focus on the potential role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Asia and discuss prospects and challenges for the better application of international standards in respect of criminal justice and redress for victims of serious human rights and humanitarian law violations in Asia.

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Short Biography of Dr. Ilaria Bottigliero

Dr. Ilaria Bottigliero, Laurea (La Sapienza, Rome), Diplôme d’Études Supérieures (The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva), PhD (The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva), is affiliated with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden.

For the past three years, she was a Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, teaching ‘International Humanitarian Law’, ‘Public International Law’ and ‘Gender, Law and Politics’.

Dr. Bottigliero is the author of Redress for Victims of Crimes under International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004) and 120 Million Landmines Deployed Worldwide: Fact or Fiction? (Pen & Sword Books, 2000).

She has followed actively the process of establishment of the International Criminal Court in its various phases and she has lectured extensively on human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal justice, gender justice, and victims’ redress in the ICC, in numerous Asian countries, including in Bangladesh, China, Japan, Laos, Mongolia, South Korea and Thailand.

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Letter of Invitation (pdf)