Hague Girls - The Podcast

Sharing Women’s Experiences and Women’s Perspectives on human rights and international justice in a way that triggers the mind, through interviews and conversations in a Podcast with your host, Evelyn Ama Ankumah. Hague Girls - The Podcast is bringing conversations on rights and accountability to broader publics by highlighting women’s contributions to emerging, topical and undertreated rights issues.

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Episode 12 - ICC Slavery Crimes Policy - Hague Girls The Podcast

In this episode of Hague Girls – The Podcast, Patricia Viseur Sellers, the Special Advisor on Slavery Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), discusses the prevalence of slavery in the modern world; defines and illustrates slavery crimes; addresses her interest in this important topic, and what a more survivor-centred, trauma informed and gender competent approach to slavery crimes would look like.

She further draws attention to the ICC Prosecutor’s call for public comments for his Office’s new Policy on Slavery Crimes.

Kindly send your submissions for a new Policy on Slavery Crimes to OTP.Policies@icc-cpi.int by 30 April.

Episode 11 - A Dignified Path to Justice for Victims of Gender-based Violence: The Thuthuzela Care Centre (TCC) Model

In this episode, Advocate Bonnie Currie-Gamwo, the Special Director of Public Prosecutions at the Sexual Offences and Community Affairs Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa, promotes the TCC Model.

She highlights the TCC Model’s successes and impact. Attention is also given to the TCC’s challenges, funding from the private sector, and the need for civil society engagement. Will the TCC model prevent and decrease the persistence and prevalence of gender-based violence in South Africa?

Episode 10 - Unmasking the Roots and Drivers of Gender-based Violence (GBV) in South Africa

In this riveting episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah and Annah Moyo, Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in South Africa, unravel the pervasive issue of GBV in South Africa. They engage in an exploration of root causes and key drivers, uncovering the layers of this pressing problem.

Episode 9 - Gender-Based Violence in Botswana: Navigating the Clash of Tradition and Modernity

In this intriguing episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah engages Tebogo Sethibe, a legal practitioner in Botswana in a candid dialogue on the horrors and terrors of gender-based violence in the Southern Africa country. They navigate the intricate dynamics between tradition and modernity, and explore approaches and potential solutions to tackle this urgent societal challenge.

Episode 8 - Breaking Barriers: Exploring Gender and Justice

In this enlightening episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah and Alix Vuillemin, the Executive Director of the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, explore the realm of gender and its interconnected concepts and phrases in an attempt to uncover the vital role of gender in the pursuit of justice, while confronting the complex challenges and thought-provoking questions that arise along the way.

Episode 7 - Beyond Ukraine: Southern Cameroon and Double Standards- Emma Osong Speaks

In this intriguing episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Emma Osong, an aerospace systems engineer working for a U.S. aerospace agency.

Their conversation has nothing to do with aircrafts or going to space though. They discuss Emma’s quest for the liberation of her people, the people of Southern Cameroon and the double standards in the international legal order.

Episode 6 - Structural Marginalisation of the Defence in International Criminal Courts - A Conversation with Melinda Taylor

In this eye-opening episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Melinda Taylor, a lead defence counsel before the International Criminal Court about the prejudice against defence counsels in international criminal courts, the huge disparity in employment conditions between the prosecution and defence teams, the inherent bias against African defendants, including defence counsel turned defendant.

Episode 5 - Leaders with Charisma: The Accountability Challenge - A Conversation with María Manuela Márquez Velásquez

In this thought-provoking episode, join Evelyn Ama Ankumah as she engages with María Manuela Márquez Velásquez, a lawyer and scholar, who passionately presents her premise for seeking accountability of charismatic leaders. Delving into the complexities, María explores the intriguing question: Can a charismatic leader be linked to the commission of atrocity crimes even in the absence of a formal superior-subordinate relationship?

Episode 4 - The Marginalised Intruder - A Conversation with Beth Lyons

In this episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Beth Lyons, a defence counsel appearing before international criminal courts, on defence perspectives and approaches to female counsels.

Episode 3 - Gender-Sensitive Judging - An Interview with Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa

In this episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa of the ICC Appeals Chamber on gender-sensitive judging, the complexities of gender identity and sexual orientation, and whether the Rome Statute of the ICC is fit for purpose.

Episode 2 - Activism for Justice - A Conversation with Fatoumatta Sandeng

In this episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Fatoumatta Sandeng, daughter of slain Gambian activist Solo Sandeng on what could be best described as Activism for Justice.

Episode 1 - Justice with Love - An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke

In this episode, Evelyn Ama Ankumah speaks with Kamari Maxine Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, on a topic that may be coined Justice with Love.

The views expressed in Hague Girls - The Podcast are those of the contributors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of Africa Legal Aid or its board. Nor do they necessarily reflect the views of the Podcast host and creator of the Hague Girls Book Series.