Crimes of Empire: From Bolton to Basra
About this Event
Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch (HRW), reflects on his current research into criminal accountability and impunity for atrocities committed under British imperial authority – from the destruction of Aboriginal Tasmanians in the nineteenth century to the torture of detainees in Iraq in the twenty-first.
About the speaker:
Previously Head of Advocacy at Minority Rights Group, Clive Baldwin specialises in international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law. His work includes a 2023 report on UK and US crimes against the Chagossian Islanders, as well as legal analyses on colonial accountability, apartheid as a crime against humanity, and the laws of war.
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