On 20 May the Global Justice Center, Human Rights Watch and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect co-hosted a Webinar entitled “The ICJ Provisional Measures: Is Myanmar protecting the Rohingya from Genocide?”. The event analyzed the current situation in Myanmar and explored concrete ways the authorities could effectively comply with International Court of Justice-imposed provisional measures. The measures were ordered on 23 January and directed Myanmar to take certain actions to protect the Rohingya from genocide and preserve evidence of genocidal acts.

The event featured remarks from:

• • Yanghee Lee, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
  • Laetitia van den Assum, Independent diplomatic expert, former member of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State chaired by Kofi Annan, and former ambassador of The Netherlands to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia
  • Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Director, Women’s Peace Network
  • Akila Radhakrishnan, President, Global Justice Center (moderator)