Clooney Foundation: Justice Beyond Borders How can the world wage justice for atrocity crimes when perpetrators seem so hard to reach? To provide an answer to this question as well as a clear way forward, the Clooney Foundation for Justice launched the Justice Beyond Borders Project (the “JBB Project”) – an online tool that shows how existing laws around the world can be used to access justice. https://justicebeyondborders.com/
The principle of Universal Jurisdiction (UJ) allows countries to prosecute the most serious crimes regardless of where they have been committed. UJ has been developing since the Second World War as a mechanism to pursue justice for survivors and victims of mass atrocities. The ability to investigate and prosecute alleged perpetrators for crimes committed beyond a country’s own borders has been gaining momentum in the past three decades, with the numbers of investigations and prosecutions steadily increasing and more countries than ever embracing the need to combat injustice. https://cfj.org/the-docket/justice-beyond-borders/
