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Lorraine Boissoneault

Lorraine Boissoneault

Lorraine Boissoneault is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of Journalism, with a magazine concentration. She has reported on immigration issues, public housing and the waterfront environment, and her articles have been published in The Brooklyn Paper, City Limits and Narratively.

Boissoneault is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a B.A. in international studies and English/creative writing. She speaks French and conversational Mandarin and has studied Arabic and Italian.

Lorraine Boissoneault

Lorraine Boissoneault

Lorraine Boissoneault is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of Journalism, with a magazine concentration. She has reported on immigration issues, public housing and the waterfront environment, and her articles have been published in The Brooklyn Paper, City Limits and Narratively.

Boissoneault is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a B.A. in international studies and English/creative writing. She speaks French and conversational Mandarin and has studied Arabic and Italian.

The International Court Judge’s Fight for Justice

February 21, 2013 
by Lorraine Boissoneault
Judge Song of the ICC
  The president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, told a Columbia University audience recently that a major challenge facing the court is what he called a steady lack of political support from the United Nations Security Council and UN member states. “We need a far more consistent and vigilant approach by …

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Rape in War: It’s Not a Given Any Longer

January 9, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Women at the Stop Rape in Conflict Now campaign in Cartagena, Colombia
One of Fatou Bensouda‘s missions as the new chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is to make rape during conflicts a thing of the past. Until 20 years ago, she said in a speech at the United Nations recently, sexual violence and other sexual attacks were “all but ignored and dismissed as regrettable …

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A Rerun of History in Eastern Congo Threatens Kinshasa Again

November 26, 2012 
by Barbara Crossette
Monusco, UN peacekeepers in Congo
Less than two decades ago, this is what happened to a huge African country once known as Zaire: Rebels backed by Rwanda’s recently installed, ethnic Tutsi-led government moved out of their strongholds in the eastern flank of the country and advanced toward the Zairian national capital, Kinshasa, and overthrew the central government. To Rwandan …

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Congo Miners See Hope While Rebels Sow Unrest

October 17, 2012 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Congo miner
Important progress in controlling the mining of tin, tantalum and tungsten in the troubled eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo has been achieved, says a report from the Enough Project, a Washington nonprofit group focused on Africa. Yet renewed fighting that began in the spring between regional militias and Congolese national troops, who …

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Can Making Amends to Victims of Atrocities Actually Help?

October 16, 2012 
by Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
Meeting with Muslim women in Bangui, CAR
The conclusion of the International Criminal Court’s first trial this summer was duly noted in global media and political circles. Yet little attention was paid to the equally landmark move by the court mandating reparations for victims of the atrocities committed by the man who was sentenced for the war crimes case, Thomas Lubanga …

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Thomas Lubanga, Congolese Warlord, Sentenced to 14 Years

July 10, 2012 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Thomas Lubanga was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment.
    Thomas Lubanga, the 52-year-old Congolese militant convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers under age 15 and using them in hostilities, was sentenced today to 14 years’ imprisonment. The children were forced to fight a conflict in northeastern Congo from Sept. …

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ICC Staff Members Released in Libya

July 2, 2012 
by PassBlue
Melinda Taylor, ICC lawyer
Libyan authorities have released the four International Criminal Court staff members who have been held in Zintan after their visit on June 7, 2012, to Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to notify him of his legal rights. Qaddafi, in custody by Zintan militias, has been charged with crimes against humanity …

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Swiss UN Mission Asks Others to Help Refer Syria to The Hague

June 17, 2012 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Observers sent to the villages of el-Qubeir to conduct a fact finding mission following reports of a massacre.
As the 300-member United Nations unarmed observer mission in Syria suspends its work because of intensifying violence in the country, Britain and Switzerland are beginning efforts to refer the Syrian situation to the International Criminal Court. The British foreign secretary, William Hague, announced recently that his office is preparing a case against the Syrian …

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Defending the International Criminal Court From the Outside

April 30, 2012 
by Dulcie Leimbach
US ambassador for war crimes
The International Criminal Court‘s judgment against the warlord Thomas Lubanga for conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed that “a permanent international criminal court is on the job,” Stephen Rapp, ambassador at large for the US State Department, said at Columbia University Law School this month. The Lubanga guilty verdict …

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