Platform for Peace and Humanity
a non profit civic association
international law || human rights || advocacy || peacebuilding
Platform for Peace and Humanity
a non profit civic association
international law || human rights || advocacy || peacebuilding
What We Do
Platform for Peace and Humanity is an international civic association promoting and advocating humanitarian values through international law, providing research-driven monitoring, consultancy and specialist expertise on international law, humanitarian and human security matters and advocating progressive development of international law in matters of international peace.
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The Trump administration’s escalating campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC) is reaching well beyond the judges, prosecutors, and human rights groups it has sanctioned. It is chilling civil society engagement with the Court and undermining victims’ access to justice.
We have joined 37 other organisations in filing an amicus curiae brief with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The brief supports a lawsuit filed by the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute, which challenges the legality of sanctions imposed under Executive Order (EO) 14203. The sanctions have targeted ICC prosecutors and judges, a UN human rights expert, and three Palestinian human rights groups.
Read the full SubmissionWe are joining more than 130 civil society organisations to call on the International Criminal Court States Parties to protect the Court, mount a collective response to halt the withdrawals from the Rome Statute and counter the new US campaign against the ICC.
Victims and survivors deserve concrete progress towards accountability, truth and reparations, and must be supported in their quest for justice. The promise made to victims nearly 30 years ago in Rome, that impunity would no longer be the norm, cannot be derailed by one State, no matter how powerful.
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Platform for Peace and Humanity delivered its Submission to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.
💬 The submission discusses the risks to the protection of the right to development arising in the context of peace and security and clarifies the State obligations when it comes to arms build-ups in the face of peace and security threats. The submission argues in favour of a balanced approach, respecting the realisation of the right to development in connection with disarmament while at the same time ensuring that States meet their positive obligations under human rights law.
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Platform for Peace and Humanity delivered its Submission to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.
💬 The submission discusses the risks to the protection of the right to development arising in the context of peace and security and clarifies the State obligations when it comes to arms build-ups in the face of peace and security threats. The submission argues in favour of a balanced approach, respecting the realisation of the right to development in connection with disarmament while at the same time ensuring that States meet their positive obligations under human rights law.
Read the full submission On 3 April 2026, the Ukraine programme team submitted a universal jurisdiction criminal complaint on behalf of victims and survivors from Ukraineʼs Kharkiv oblast residing in the Czech Republic. The submission maps indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian objects in the Kharkiv oblast throughout 2022, with a clear pattern of violations of international law established. The criminal complaint alleges that the Russian high command and military personnel identified in the criminal complaint are responsible for the war crime of illegal means and methods of warfare and the crime against humanity of murder, prosecutable in the Czech Republic under universal jurisdiction.
💬 “Victims and survivors from Ukraine residing in the Czech Republic now request that Czech law enforcement open an investigation into indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian objects in Ukraine and other atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity. There is no excuse and no valid legal argument for not opening such an investigation and prosecuting the identified suspects. Victims and survivors manifest unhindered determination and courage in seeking justice and we will use all domestic remedies to ensure their voices are heard.” – Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director, Platform for Peace and Humanity
Events
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Issue 8: March 2026
Table of contents
- The Use of Cross-Border Tensions and Nationalism in Thai and Cambodian Politics
Sanae Takaichi Elected: Implications for Peace and Security in Japan and East Asia
Underground by Design: How Lawfare and Digital Control Push Advocacy into the Shadows in Cambodia
Informal Social Networks During Disaster Governance of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka
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Securing Black Sea Undersea Cables: A Resilience-Based Approach to European Security
North Kosovo: An Analysis of Ethnic Representation as A Contested Issue (2021-2025)
Bulgaria’s Energy Transition: Between Resilience and Historical Dependence
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Navigating Norms: EU Conditionality in Central Asia’s Connectivity Race
Shifting Horizons: The Evolution of Central Asian Labor Migration Post-2024
Strategic Recalibration: How Russia’s War of Aggression in Ukraine is Reshaping Central Asia
Central Asia and the New World Order
The Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan and its Implications for Central Asia
The New Financial Barrier: U.S. Visa Bond Requirements and Their Impact on Central Asia
Connectivity as an Enabler of Human Trafficking Ecosystems in Central Asia