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El ensordecedor silencio de Alemania ante los crímenes de Gaza
Mi infancia fue feliz, era un niño querido y tenía todo lo que podía desear. Sin embargo, crecí en un mundo de silencios, de asuntos sobre los que mi hermano y yo no teníamos más que una vaga idea. Era un silencio familiar, del pasado. No supe los detalles hasta más tarde. [...] Los secretos de nuestros seres queridos eran hechos sangrientos que no hace falta que recuerde. El nuestro era un silencio alemán, nacido de los horrores que sufrieron mis abuelos y mi madre.
Germany and the Albatross of silence on Gaza
It is an honour to be with you this morning. The award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is special. It is special because until recently my readers were drawn from the confines of the world of law, and because Frankfurt is significant for our family. Andre Schiffrin was a renowned publisher. He came every year to the Book Fair, and three of his authors – Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, and George F. Kennan – were honoured with this Prize.
Londres 38 o sull'impunità
Un racconto intrigante sul tema dell'immunità e dell'impunità. Sands riesce a rendere vivi e coinvolgenti anche gli argomenti giuridici.The Times Un libro straordinario... Sands dimostra che, anche di fronte a prove schiaccianti, la giustizia non è mai scontata, soprattutto quando si tratta di chiedere conto ai potenti.The New York Times Book Review Philippe Sands combina il tono del thriller con un resoconto acuto e avvincente di un caso giudiziario complesso e affascinante.
Al Majalla’s Book Watch
The Arab world has a vibrant literary scene. In this fortnightly roundup, Al Majalla highlights the best Arabic releases.
Jozef Wittlin, Philippe Sands
Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe’s history. City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart – but united by one city. Józef Wittlin’s sensual and lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled or been killed.
The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write
In 1945, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin was on a short tour of Germany, offering recitals to survivors of the concentration camps. On Friday 27 July 1945 he reached Bergen-Belsen, liberated three months earlier, and gave two concerts, in the cinema at the camp. The experience had a profound impact. "I shall not forget that afternoon as long as I live," said Menuhin. "After Belsen, Yehudi was never the same again," his sister Yaltah Menuhin reported.
Migrants and Intellectual life
Migrants are often presented as a burden, but no one can deny the impact they have had on Britain's intellectual life. One quarter of Britain's Nobel Prize winners in science were born abroad. Our religious, philosophical and ideological heritage has often been inspired by migrants, from royal patrons (Prince Rupert, Prince Albert) to refugees (Ralf Dahrendorf, Isaiah Berlin).
Trump and his ilk imagine a world without international law – but they will not achieve it
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Trump and his ilk imagine a world without international law – but they will not achieve it
‘We are in a world in which some would like to strip back or do away with certain international rules.’ Photograph: Inga Kjer/Photothek/Getty Images Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal moment in international law, marking the founding of the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal to investigate war crimes committed during the second world war. Eighty years on, it is increasingly being said that we are living through a moment of great change, towards a world that is without such law.
How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile
It was October 17, 1998, a Saturday afternoon, when I heard the news on the radio, waiting for the football results. It was my thirty-eighth birthday. The former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, has been arrested in London, the BBC reported, at the request of a Spanish judge. This was interesting, as it wasn’t every day that a former head of state was detained.
Lawfare Daily: ‘38 Londres Street,’ Impunity, and Immunity with Philippe Sands
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Philippe Sands, a professor of law at the University of London and the Samuel Pisar Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School to discuss his new book, “38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia.” They discuss the intertwined stories of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Nazi SS commander Walther Rauff, his uncanny personal...
How Far Does Trump’s Immunity Go? Original
When Vladimir Putin met with Donald Trump in Alaska in August, one prominent strand of social-media commentary had nothing to do with the possibility of a deal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine (the meeting’s ostensible purpose). Rather, it turned on the question of whether Putin—who faces an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, stemming from Russia’s wartime actions—could conceivably be arrested when he stepped foot on U.S. soil.
Vatican Chagos
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Vatican Chagos
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Vatican Chagos
Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile. Leo spoke during an audience on Saturday with refugees from Chagos, the Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic U.S.-U.K. military base. Some 2,000 Chagossians were evicted from their homes by Britain in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. could build the naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia.
Criminalising ecocide
Philippe Sands, professor of the public understanding of law1, Catherine Savard, DPhil in law researcher2 1University College London Faculty of Laws, London, UK 2St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to: C Savard catherine.savard{at}spc.ox.ac.uk Individuals should be held to account for environmental damage In May 2025, Scotland joined a growing global movement by introducing a bill to criminalise “ecocide.”1 Twelve countries have already criminalised ecocide,...
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38 LONDRES STREET
An extraordinary exposé of the collusion of Nazis with the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. An international law scholar and practitioner points to the loopholes that allowed a tyrant to evade prosecution. Sands’ title comes from the former Chilean Socialist Party headquarters that, in a cruelly ironic turn, became a center for the interrogation and torture of leftists after the military coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende in 1973.
Le crime des crimes
Mardi 1er octobre 1946, palais de justice de Nuremberg Un peu avant trois heures de l’après-midi, la porte en bois derrière le box des prévenus s’ouvre et Hans Frank entre dans la salle d’audience 600. […] Frank, qui a été d’abord l’avocat personnel d’Adolf Hitler puis son représentant dans la Pologne occupée par l’Allemagne, n’est plus le ministre mince et crâneur célébré par son ami Richard Strauss. […] Un professeur de droit international à Cambridge se trouve également dans la salle bondée.
“38 Londres Street” by Philippe Sands: A Gripping Legal Thriller on Pinochet and Nazi Crimes
One Friday in October 1998, a little after 3 pm, an extraordinary fax arrived at Scotland Yard. It was from a judge in Spain. “I order,” it read, “the pre-trial detention of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte for the crimes of genocide and terrorism, issuing international search and capture orders to permit his extradition.
Why our planet (and not just its people) should have legal rights
When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, her words, with their graphic warnings about pesticides, gave rise to a new...
Boek | 38 Londres Street - Philippe Sands
The new Sunday Times bestseller from the Baillie Gifford-winning author of East West Street and The Ratline Uitgeverij Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. Imprint Orion Publishing Co Uitgegeven als Hardcover • Paperback Eerste editie 03-04-2025 Laatste editie 02-04-2026 ISBN 9781474620741 • 9781474620758 • 9781474620765 Aantal pagina's 480 Taal Engels
De verdwijningen van Londres 38
Hoe een oud-SS-officier invloed had op het regime van dictator Pinochet – van de auteur van de bestseller De rattenlijn In dit boek vertelt bestsellerauteur Philippe Sands het opzienbarende verhaal van de Chileense dictator Augusto Pinochet, oud-SS-officier Walter Rauff en de sinistere verbanden tussen deze twee. Rauff, die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een sleutelrol speelde bij de ontwikkeling van mobiele gaswagens, wist zijn straf te ontvluchten en zette zijn leven voort in Chili.
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. Under his aegis, over three thousand people were killed by agents of the state; many more were tortured. But Pinochet never served a day in prison. An amnesty law in Chile protected him from prosecution for crimes committed during his dictatorship. He was detained in London in 1998 after a judge in Madrid applied for his extradition to Spain – at least one of the victims of his regime was a Spanish national.
Philippe Sands - Nueva Revista
Profesor de derecho y director del Centro de Cortes y Tribunales Internacionales del University College de Londres. Especialista en derecho internacional, ha ejercido como abogado ante numerosos tribunales y cortes internacionales, como la Corte Internacional de Justicia, el Tribunal Europeo de Justicia y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Es autor del éxito de ventas Calle Este-Oeste.
The international criminal justice system was prejudiced from the start
Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice Bridge Street Press, pp.416, 25 Three generations ago, Britain and the United States joined forces to propose the establishment of a revamped international rules-based system to remake the world. This was initially articulated in a document that came to be known as the Atlantic Charter, signed in August 1941.
The reset: how Britain can restore its global reputation
Sir Keir Starmer ran for office on a manifesto that repeatedly invoked respect for international law and undertook to “reconnect with our...
Filiera. Pe urmele unui fost demnitar nazist
Baronul Otto von Wächter, avocat austriac, soț, tată, înalt oficial nazist, ofițer superior în SS, fost guvernator al Galiției în timpul războiului, creator și supraveghetor al ghetoului din Cracovia, criminal de război urmărit pentru asasinarea în masă a mai mult de 100.000 de polonezi, vînat de sovietici, de americani, de britanici, de Simon Wiesenthal, fugar vreme de trei ani, din 1945 în 1948… Philippe Sands recompune, în detalii impresionante, povestea extraordinară, șocantă a lui Wächter.
From Gaza to Ukraine, what would the pioneers of human rights think of our world today?
During the week when we mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1948 convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide, I have been thinking about the genesis of both events and how we should commemorate them now. Adopted within 24 hours of each other in Paris in December 1948, the universal declaration seeks to protect individuals, while the convention seeks to protect groups.
From Gaza to Ukraine, what would the pioneers of human rights think of our world today?
During the week when we mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1948 convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide, I have been thinking about the genesis of both events and how we should commemorate them now. Adopted within 24 hours of each other in Paris in December 1948, the universal declaration seeks to protect individuals, while the convention seeks to protect groups.
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
In This Review In This Review The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage In 1965, the United Kingdom split off the Chagos archipelago from Mauritius to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. It also ceded the biggest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia, to the United States, which was seeking a military base in the Indian Ocean. The United Kingdom forcefully removed to Mauritius and the Seychelles the small population in the archipelago of some 2,000 people in 1973.
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
In This Review In This Review Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World Yeebo weaves the far-fetched tale of John Ackah Blay-Miezah, a Ghanaian grifter responsible for a truly massive con. Blay-Miezah claimed that he had sole access to an enormous fortune in gold that Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, had squirreled away while in power.
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana
In This Review In This Review Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana Driscoll’s book seeks to investigate how electoral political competition shapes local government in Ghana, with a focus on systems of political patronage. Combining ethnographic methods and a remarkable data set of surveys of district officials, he finds that the main demand for patronage comes from the political parties and their local representatives who want to be rewarded for their efforts during the campaign.
Bushmeat: Culture, Economy, and Conservation in Central Africa
In This Review In This Review Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa This excellent introduction to the cultural, economic, and health implications of bushmeat shows that eating a wide assortment of animals is a way of life in much of central Africa. People in this region grill, roast, stew, and smoke a variety of wild mammals, birds, and reptiles. For people outside the main cities, bushmeat provides an important source of calories and protein.
Book Review: "Djibouti" by Samson Abebe Bezabeh
In This Review In This Review Djibouti: A Political History Abebe Bezabeh has written a thoughtful political history of a much-neglected country. Djibouti gained independence from France in 1977. It sits squeezed between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia with a population of just over one million people. The country is mentioned in the press because of its strategic location between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and because it hosts French, American, and now Chinese military bases.
Philippe Sands. Ostatnia kolonia
REKLAMA: automatycznie wyświetlimy artykuł za 15 sekund. Plus Minus Wiosną 1968 roku Mauritius stał się krajem niepodległym, lecz z niekompletnym terytorium. Wielka Brytania postanowiła odłączyć od niego archipelag Czagos, a jego mieszkańców – „paru Tarzanów czy Piętaszków o niejasnym pochodzeniu” – wysiedlić. Aktualizacja: 27.10.2023 17:08 Publikacja: 27.10.2023 17:00 Na Diego Garcii mieści się lotnisko, na którym stacjonują amerykańskie bombowce strategiczne.
Will the Expelled People of Chagos Finally Find Justice?
You could be forgiven for thinking that a label on a map—in this case the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT, pronounced somewhat like “buyout”—is something you could take at face value. I own a coffee mug emblazoned with the territory’s coat of arms: a Union Jack, a crown, a palm tree, and some wavy lines representing water, all displayed on a shield supported by two sea turtles.
A momentous climate case could force countries to do more
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"Master Slave Husband Wife" By Ilyon Woo
In 1848, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles. In her latest book, Master Slave Husband Wife, bestselling author Ilyon Woo weaves together this tumultuous love story against the backdrop of a monumental bid for freedom.
"How Beautiful We Were" By Imbolo Mbue
Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in August 2021. “We should have known the end was near.”So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water.
"Dust Child" By Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
On today’s program, novelist Nguyen Phan Que Mai talks with us about her new novel, Dust Child. Set in Vietnam, 1969, the book follows sisters Trang and Quỳnh. Saddled with their parents’ debts, the daughters leave their village to work at a bar in Sàigòn. Once in the big city, they’re thrown headfirst into a world they don’t recognize. Learning to speak English, how to dress, drink, and flirt with American GIs in return for money. The resulting book is a moving, decades-long family saga.
Idaho Department of Correction poised to take over inmate reentry program
The Idaho Department of Correction will take full control of its Correctional Alternative Placement Program on July 1. Lawmakers in 2022 approved buying out the remaining lease on the building and in the most recent session gave the thumbs up to spending $2.5 million to take over operations. The building in Kuna is being renamed the Mountain View Transformation Center. Department of Correction Director Josh Tewalt said in a committee hearing the change would save the state nearly $800,000 annually.
Nampa School Board passes policy banning classroom discussion on gender identity, sexual orientation
The Nampa School Board of Trustees met Monday night to discuss the policy which would prohibit gender identity or sexual identity to be taught or discussed in Nampa schools. The Board passed the policy in a 3-1 vote. Critics of the policy have compared it to Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay Law," which also keeps gender identity discussions out of classrooms. The majority of parents in attendance at the meeting asked the Board to reject the policy.
Unhappy at your job? In 'The Search,' author Bruce Feiler maps out how to find purposeful work
Host Robin Young speaks with best-selling author Bruce Feiler about his new book, “The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World.” With many Americans unhappy at their jobs and seeking new opportunities, the book lays out a path for how to proceed. Book excerpt: ‘The Search’ By Bruce Feiler This book is designed to help you write your own story about work. It grows out of an unprecedented shift in how we think about what we do. More people are taking control of their work lives.
Here's the latest on the missing Titanic sub and the race to rescue those inside
Updated June 20, 2023 at 11:27 AM ET As of midday Tuesday, international rescue crews are still searching the North Atlantic for a submersible vessel that was taking five people to view the wreckage from the Titanic. Authorities estimate there's only enough oxygen in the sub for those onboard to survive about two more days. Here's what we know. When and where did the vessel go missing?
Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'
The history of literature is, in no small part, the history of love stories. And with all due respect to Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the greatest romantic stories nearly always end unhappily. Their pleasure is inseparable from their pain. Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel Kairos, the story of a love affair set in East Germany right before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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