T.M.C. Asser Instituut 376d ago

The scale and gravity of international crimes committed in Ukraine underscore an acute need for international judicial cooperation, and universal jurisdiction may be leveraged as a vital tool to fill impunity gaps, bring perpetrators to court, and achieve justice for victims. Global Rights Compliance (GRC) has developed a 'Practitioners’ Handbook on Extraterritorial or Universal Jurisdiction to Pursue Accountability for International Crimes Committed in Ukraine’. The Practitioners’ Handbook, available in Ukrainian (https://globalrightscompliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250613-Handbook_UJ_UKR-final.pdf) and English (https://globalrightscompliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250613-Handbook_UJ-final.pdf), aims to serve as a tool for practitioners engaged in seeking accountability for international crimes committed in Ukraine by helping them navigate universal jurisdiction laws and practice, bring cases before relevant domestic authorities and engage in judicial cooperation. The Handbook was developed under GRC’s project Support to Ukrainian National Prosecutors and CSOs in Building Strategic Cases under Universal Jurisdiction (https://globalrightscompliance.org/project/support-to-ukrainian-national-prosecutors-and-csos-in-building-strategic-cases-under-universal-jurisdiction/), part of the ‘Restoring Dignity and Justice in Ukraine’ consortium programme. The programme is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), in partnership with the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, the Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC), and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC).