Sarah Zarmsky speaks to Dutch War Crimes Unit & International Criminal Defence Counsel in The Hague
How can international criminal law accomodate digital harms?
Last week, Sarah Zarmsky, Lecturer at QUB School of Law, spoke about her research on accountability for digital harms under international criminal law to the Dutch War Crimes Unit and at the Association for Defence Counsel for International Criminal Tribunals Annual Conference in The Hague. 
On Thursday 28 November 2024, Sarah spoke to the team responsible for investigating and prosecuting international crimes in The Netherlands to help inform their approaches to prosecuting harmful online content. She highlighted how online harms such as online hate speech, disinformation, terrorist execution videos, and online sexual violence can be encompassed within existing definitions of international crimes (including genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity). On Saturday 30 November, Sarah was a speaker at the ADC-ICT Annual Conference as part of a panel on what it takes to be international counsel in an age of social media and artificial intelligence. Both discussions were useful for advancing accountability for international crimes in a digital age, both in terms of prosecutions of crimes and ensuring that fair trial rights are respected. The talks were partially based on Sarah's research that was published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice this year. Sarah plans to publish this research in full as a monograph in the upcoming year.
