Podcast appearances and mentions of stephen rapp

Trump's shutdown of Russian war crimes investigations is the focus of former US Ambassador-at-large Stephen Rapp and SpyTalk host Michael Isikoff. Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SpyTalkerFollow Michael Isikoff on Twitter:https://twitter.com/isikoff Follow SpyTalk on Twitter:https://twitter.com/talk_spySubscribe to SpyTalk on Substackhttps://www.spytalk.co/Take our listener survey where you can give us feedback.http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. This comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency to deal with an outbreak spreading among dairy cows in California. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services in Michigan joins us to discuss. And, two experts on human rights violations recently visited suspected mass graves in Syria. Stephen Rapp, former U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, and Mouaz Moustafa of the Syrian Emergency Task Force share what they saw. Then, terminally ill children got to take a magical plane ride to Santa's Workshop. We speak with Captain Bob Zimmerman, who piloted the trip.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

After visiting sites close to Syria's capital Damascus, Stephen Rapp, who led prosecutors for the tribunals investigating war crimes in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, said "we really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis." The Syrian Emergency Taskforce, a humanitarian and activist organisation, estimates half a million bodies could be buried in mass graves.Also in the programme: Ukraine assassinates a Russian general in Moscow; and we speak to the anti-whaling activist just released from detention in Greenland.(Photo: Stephen Rapp, head of Commission for International Justice and Accountability, talks with media as people inspect the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, 17 December 2024. Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad)

The Syrian people are still celebrating what so many never thought possible, a country free of Bashar al-Assad. But amid the joy, there is much uncertainty about what lies ahead, and also deep pain, as the heinous atrocities from the past decades are coming more and more to light. Stephen Rapp has been laser-focused on bringing Assad to justice for years, gathering and documenting all the evidence possible. Rapp, who was the leading US official on war crimes, says he wants to see the brutal dictator face responsibility for the detention, torture and murder of tens of thousands of Syrians. He currently serves as distinguished fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide. He joins the show from Washington DC.  Also on today's show: "Daughters" Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae; Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO & Chairman  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former U.S. Attorney and Senior FBI Official Chuck Rosenberg discusses an unusual New York law that could impact the probe into former President Trump. Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Stephen Rapp says cooperation between the U.S. and other major nations will be crucial in holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for war crimes in Ukraine. TikTok is in limbo as bipartisan calls for a ban on the social media app continue to grow.

Stephen Rapp, former US Ambassador at large for war crimes under President Barack Obama, discusses European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's proposal to establish a specialised court to prosecute Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine.

This very syncopated tune was a challenge to arrange. The TOTW presenter, Stephen Rapp, was able to arrange it in a more standard clawhammer style and plays it wonderfully with his fiddling partner, Paul Kirk, Jr. Check it out on the link for TOTW.

This very syncopated tune was a challenge to arrange. The TOTW presenter, Stephen Rapp, was able to arrange it in a more standard clawhammer style and plays it wonderfully with his fiddling partner, Paul Kirk, Jr. Check it out on the link for TOTW.

Why are Special Courts needed, and do they help achieve justice? Could Libya benefit from a Special Court? How can a Special Court be compatible with other international mechanisms? To unravel all this, hosts Elham and Marwa talk to prominent American lawyer and former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Stephen Rapp. Stephen Rapp has over twenty years of experience in the field of international justice and accountability and he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Our latest report, “Justice is the only way forward”: Perceptions of justice in Libya ten years on, explores the perceptions of justice of Libyans, their views on the transitional justice process and their priorities for accountability ten years on from the 2011 uprising. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.  Follow us: Twitter: @LibyamatterspodFacebook: @LibyamattersInstagram: @libyamatterspodcastFind our hosts on Twitter @Elham_LFJL and @Marwa_LFJL. This season of Libya Matters was produced by Damiri Media: @damiri.officialArtwork by Agata Nowicka: @pixelendo Libya Matters is brought to you by Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL).  Visit our website.Subscribe to our mailing list.Support our work with a single or regular donation.

Known by other titles, this arrangement comes from the legendary WV fiddler Ed Haley. I played it on a short-scale Gold Tone Plucky travel banjo, ending up in the key of F and on a short-scale Doc's Banjo in the key of C --just a fun diversion to hear the difference. To play with a fiddler you'd need it in the key of D. Listen to Stephen Rapp with Paul Kirk, Jr. -- great duet!

Known by other titles, this arrangement comes from the legendary WV fiddler Ed Haley. I played it on a short-scale Gold Tone Plucky travel banjo, ending up in the key of F and on a short-scale Doc's Banjo in the key of C --just a fun diversion to hear the difference. To play with a fiddler you'd need it in the key of D. Listen to Stephen Rapp with Paul Kirk, Jr. -- great duet!

Diane talks to Stephen Rapp, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, about alleged atrocities in Ukraine and what accountability might look like.

President Biden this past Monday doubled down on his charge that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces were committing war crimes in Ukraine. Biden referenced the grotesque images emerging from Bucha showing Ukrainian citizens, their hands tied behind their backs shot and killed by Russian soldiers, their bodies dumped on the streets. Eye-witnesses describe the discovery of mass graves and reports of looting, rape, and other atrocities. Coming on top of Russian missile strikes on a maternity ward and other residential areas. The latest evidence would seem to cry out for a full-scale investigation for war crimes. But how would a war crimes prosecution actually work? And is there any realistic chance that Putin himself would be held accountable? We talk to Stephen Rapp, who formally served at the State Department as US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes.GUESTS:Stephen Rapp, Fmr. United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal JusticeHOSTS:Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo NewsDaniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo NewsVictoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host) RESOURCES:Yahoo News' Dylan Stableford and Colin Campbell's article on Biden claiming Putin should face war crimes - Here.Yahoo News explainer: What is a War Crime? - Here. Follow us on Twitter: @SkullduggeryPodListen and subscribe to "Skullduggery" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with feedback, questions or tips: SkullduggeryPod@yahoo.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Russia struggles to explain its bombing of a Ukrainian hospital, what does accountability look like on the international stage? And what are the implications of Biden's Supreme Court nomination — potentially the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation.

This episode presents the second Annual Justice Lecture delivered by Mr Hanny Megally in October 2020.  Mr Megally examines lessons learned from past Commissions of Inquiry and the key elements of a successful investigative mechanism to facilitate accountability.  Mr Megally's lecture, delivered virtually, was followed by a discussion with Elham Saudi (Director, LFJL) and an audience Q&A with contributions from Pablo de Greiff, Stephen Rapp, Mervat Rishmawi and others. The full recording of the event can be found here. Highlights can be found here. Follow us: Twitter: @Libyamatterspod Facebook: @Libyamatters Instagram: @libyamatterspodcast  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Find our regular hosts on Twitter @Elham_LFJL and @Marwa_LFJL. Libya Matters is produced by Damiri Media.  The 2020 Annual Justice lecture was made possible by the Centre for Human Rights Law at SOAS, the International Center for Transitional Justice, ICTJ and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This episode of Libya Matters is made possible by our partnership with International Media Support (IMS). Libya Matters is a production of Lawyers for Justice in Libya. Follow LFJL at:  Twitter: @LibyanJustice Facebook: @LibyanJustice Instagram:@ lawyersforjusticeinlibya Subscribe to our mailing list Support our work with a single or regular donation  

Chirps Smith is a legendary fiddler in my book. This Tune of the Week is an original by him, brought to my attention from Stephen Rapp, who with his fiddle-playing buddy Paul Kirk, brings us many good tunes. Though the tune is relatively new, it has a sweet old-time feel. I'm playing on a cello banjo to get to the original tuning that Chirps wrote Mississippi Palisades in.

Chirps Smith is a legendary fiddler in my book. This Tune of the Week is an original by him, brought to my attention from Stephen Rapp, who with his fiddle-playing buddy Paul Kirk, brings us many good tunes. Though the tune is relatively new, it has a sweet old-time feel. I'm playing on a cello banjo to get to the original tuning that Chirps wrote Mississippi Palisades in.

In this episode, marking World Day for International Justice, we sat down with Ambassador Stephen Rapp. During the episode Ambassador Rapp discusses his own experience with international justice at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as well as during his term as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes. The episode focuses on the evolution of international justice and the emergence of multiple paths to achieving accountability for atrocity crimes.

In 2009 a war crimes trial in Sierra Leone ruled that forced marriage was a crime against humanity. It was the first time a court had recognised that charge. The ruling came in a trial of three rebel leaders for crimes committed during Sierra Leone's civil war. The legal turning point came largely as a result of the testimonies of the women who had been victims. The prosecution argued that forced marriage should be considered a crime against humanity distinct from other forms of sexual violence. Farhana Haider has been speaking to the former chief prosecutor Stephen Rapp about the trials. Photo: Sierra Leone, repatriated refugees reaching Freetown January 2001 Credit: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images

As the Biden administration reengages with the global community, it faces tough decisions about how to deal with the remnants of former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including sanctions imposed on staff of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The sanctions were a response to the ICC’s investigation of possible war crimes by US forces in Afghanistan. Prominent groups are calling on the Biden administration to lift those sanctions. But one of America’s close allies — Israel —  is asking the new president to keep them in place. Related: Alleged CAR militia leaders reject ICC chargesBiden’s State Department says the sanctions are under review. “I don't need the Biden administration to love the fact that US actors are being investigated for crimes against humanity and war crimes. But what I do want to see is my government not obstructing justice."Katherine Gallagher, lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights“I don't see what there is to review. This executive order needs to be rescinded now. It needed to be rescinded a month ago,” said Katherine Gallagher, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights. “I don't need the Biden administration to love the fact that US actors are being investigated for crimes against humanity and war crimes. But what I do want to see is my government not obstructing justice,” she said. The ICC is a court of last resort for crimes against humanity — meaning it takes up issues that it decides have not been adequately addressed by countries in their own national courts. Related: Undeterred by ICC decision, Uighurs hail EU, UK steps toward holding China accountableIn March 2020, ICC judges decided the US had not suffficiently investigated itself for possible war crimes and torture in Afghanistan. The US isn’t a party to the treaty that created the ICC, but Afghanistan is. So the court’s judges decided to authorize the ICC’s prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, to start an investigation. In response, the Trump administration placed sanctions on Bensouda and her staff. “It gives us no joy to punish them,” then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in June 2020. “But we cannot allow ICC officials and their families to come to the US to shop, travel and otherwise enjoy American freedoms as these same officials seek to prosecute the defenders of those freedoms.” The administration’s action against ICC personnel was widely criticized. But now there’s more at stake: earlier this month, ICC judges ruled that the court has jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories, and Bensouda could elect to investigate war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The ruling was a response to a request by Palestinians representing the state of Palestine, which is recognized as a member of the ICC. Related: Myanmar military faces justice at The Hague“When the ICC investigates Israel for war crimes, this is pure anti-Semitism,”  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, calling the decision by the ICC “a perversion of justice.” Netanyahu pointed out that Israel, like the US, isn’t a party to the treaty that established the court, and doesn’t consider itself to be under its jurisdiction. The US agrees: the State Department said it has "serious concerns" about the ICC’s ruling. “We do not believe the Palestinians qualify as a sovereign state,” it said in a statement. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the Palestinian territories have no standing with the ICC. “It's not what I would want to see from an administration that has held out as one of its priorities, human rights, that has said it wants to reengage in the ‘international legal world order,’” Gallagher said. “So this is not in line with its stated principles, its stated priorities.” But many Israelis are firm in their belief that the international legal world order is deeply flawed. “Israelis always feel like we're under attack from the UN and from international bodies. ...And people are always going after us as opposed to other places where, you know, human rights issues are much more intense and more horrible.”Anne Herzberg, NGO Monitor“Israelis always feel like we're under attack from the UN and from international bodies,” said Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute. “And people are always going after us as opposed to other places where, you know, human rights issues are much more intense and more horrible.”With this decision, the ICC could also investigate war crimes committed by Palestinians. But Herzberg, who filed an amicus brief in the ICC’s case on the Palestinian territories, said this issue feels personal for Israelis because almost everyone in Israel has to serve a stint in the military. So there’s a remote possibility any of them could be arrested if there is an ICC investigation. “It's a lot different when, hey, it could be my uncle or my neighbor, my son that could potentially be at risk,” she said. Still, US sanctions on the ICC must end, said Stephen Rapp, who represented the US at the ICC for six years as President Barack Obama’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes. He said the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are inappropriate and unprincipled.“Using this tool of threat — and threatening — is like holding a gun to a judge's head. It's an ineffective tactic and it's a counterproductive one."Stephen Rapp, former US ambassador-at-large“Using this tool of threat — and threatening — is like holding a gun to a judge's head. It's an ineffective tactic and it's a counterproductive one,” Rapp said. “And that's the position that we should take with Netanyahu: ‘We have your back. But that doesn't mean that we're going to engage in extortion on your behalf. We're going to use the powerful tools that we have to to protect you.’”It might not be necessary for the US to protect Israel in this matter. ICC prosecutor Bensouda hasn’t opened a case against Israelis, and may not because she’ll soon be replaced with a newly elected prosecutor. As for the Biden administration, Rapp said it needs to show the court that the US has already sufficiently investigated itself for atrocities in Afghanistan. There haven’t been convictions, but Rapp said the ICC doesn’t require them. “Obviously, we need to hold our people to account. And there were some processes that did that. They weren't perfect, but I think they passed muster,” he said. “That's what this comes down to.” If the ICC still decides the US’s internal investigation wasn’t good enough, Rapp said, the US can always go back and investigate further. 

Dr Stephen Rapp, who led the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and headed the team that convicted Rwandan leaders of genocide, joins RN Breakfast to respond to the report.

Cuje Bertram version of Blackbird Says to the Crow with Paul kirk and Stephen Rapp at jam.

Cuje Bertram version of Blackbird Says to the Crow with Paul kirk and Stephen Rapp at jam.

Cuje Bertram version of Blackbird Says to the Crow with Paul kirk and Stephen Rapp at jam.

This week we sat down with Former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp. We discussed his firsthand experience prosecuting the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and possible avenues for prosecuting the ongoing genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq and Syria.

Stephen Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the U.S. Department of State 2009-2015 talks with Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri, Co-Director, Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS about international justice in Sierra Leone, peace vs. justice in Syria, the US relationship with the International Criminal Court, and the Future of International Criminal Justice.

The Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS, in association with the London Transitional Justice Network, hosted Ambassador Stephen Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes in the US Office of Global Criminal Justice at the Department of State from 2009-2015, and before this, Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone where he was responsible for the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Ambassador Rapp spoke about 'The Future of International Criminal Justice' Leslie Vinjamuri, CCRJ's Co-Director, Chaired this talk.

September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots - Stephen Rapp" Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Ambassador Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes

Stephen J. Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large on War Crimes, gives a harrowing account of worldwide crimes against humanity, particularly in conflict zones, where victims have nowhere to turn for justice. Ambassador Rapp is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19886]

Stephen J. Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large on War Crimes, gives a harrowing account of worldwide crimes against humanity, particularly in conflict zones, where victims have nowhere to turn for justice. Ambassador Rapp is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19886]