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The KCIL in collaboration with Azadbun Organization and Genocide Research Center Halabja University arranged a public seminar on prosecution of international crimes:

On 16 may,2025, Suliamanyah province,In presence of the Kurdistan parliament MPs,secretary General Ministry of Peshmerga (MoPA), and representatives of local CSOs. The KCIL in Joint efforts with Azadbun Organization and UOH- Genocide Research Center at Halabja University, arranged public seminar under the title of from the past atrocities to future prevention. At the outset, the KCIL has delivered a speech on  the KCIL endeavours in domestication of international criminal law, and the KCIL activities in the equipped judges and general prosecutors around key steps in prosecuting international crimes. As well as disseminating international humanitarian law within MoPA commanders, developing guidelines on legislative process for the Kurdistan parliament besides drafting a bill on combating and prosecution of international crimes. Subsequently, Dr.Sheraz Ebrahim, the KCIL executive board member, and moderated the seminar highlighted that nowadays the Kurdish legal community should be taking the essential measures within the international criminal framework- now more than ever- to effectively prosecute international crimes, and prevail over domestic judicial challenges in prosecuting these crimes. The first topic of the seminar was delivered by Dr. Gurgen Petrossian :  is a senior researcher and head of FAU’s International Criminal Law Research Group on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its legal consequences. Then, Dr. Mohammed Alewa Badrthe Director of the Northumbria International Criminal Law and Practice LLM Programme,Inferred the intention behind the genocide. The concluding topic was delivered by Dr. Sanar Taha, Legal Adviser, explained the policy of extermination and genocide of the Failis Kurds by the Ba'ath regime. In the end, trainers and participants agreed upon the importance of adopting a modern legal overview to investigate international crimes and buil  a constructive memory of genocide and crimes against humanity, rather than relying soley on a self-sacrificial narrative of past international crimes  committed against the Kurdish nation in the past and future.