The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today presented the Mechanism’s twenty-third progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council) in New York.

President Gatti Santana began her address by highlighting the historical significance of the Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 75 years ago, which she described as “a cornerstone for the Yugoslav and Rwanda Tribunals”.

Yesterday, at United Nations Headquarters, President Graciela Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz took part in the commemorative conference convened by Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

On Friday, 24 November 2023, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) hosted the finals of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) 22nd All Africa Competition in International Humanitarian Law at the Mechanism's Arusha branch, in the United Republic of Tanzania.

Today, the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, officially launched the fifth cycle of the Mechanism’s Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme). President Gatti Santana delivered an opening lecture on the creation and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to over 120 postgraduate students from 14 law faculties and one faculty of political sciences from across the region of the former Yugoslavia.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today presented the Mechanism’s eleventh annual report to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT or Mechanism), Mr. Abubacarr M. Tambadou, officiated today at a property gifting ceremony held at the IRMCT’s branch in Arusha, Tanzania. The ceremony involved the handing over of five vehicles, four computers and various pieces of office furniture to the Arusha Regional Police Office, the Kilimanjaro Regional Police Office and the Arusha Regional Immigration Office.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today participated in the Twenty-Eighth Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide, held at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Today the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, presented the Mechanism’s twenty-second progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council) in New York.

The accreditation procedure is now open for those wishing to attend the pronouncement of the Appeal Judgement in the case of Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović on Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 11:30 CEST in the Courtroom of the Hague branch of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism).

The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT or Mechanism), Abubacarr M. Tambadou, today concluded an official mission to the Republic of Rwanda from 2 to 4 May 2023.