Join us for a compelling conversation between Steve Crawshaw and Carla Ferstman, exploring themes from Crawshaw’s latest book:Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice.Hosted by the Essex Human Rights Centre, this seminar will delve into the global struggle for accountability and the evolving landscape of international justice.
About the speaker
Steve Crawshaw is the author of Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice. Until 2023, he was policy and advocacy director at Freedom from Torture. Before that he worked for Human Rights Watch as UK director and UN advocacy director and Amnesty International as international advocacy director and Director of the Office of the Secretary General. He joined the Independent at launch, where his roles included Russia and East Europe Editor (covering the Eastern European revolutions) and chief foreign correspondent. His previous books are Goodbye to the USSR (1992), Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century (2004), Small Acts of Resistance (with John Jackson, foreword by Václav Havel, 2010) and Street Spirit: The Power of Protest and Mischief (foreword by Ai Weiwei, 2017). He was a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights in 2016-2017.
