PhD candidates from universities around the world are invited to participate in the first annual doctoral seminar of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. The seminar is planned to take place over three days, 20, 21, 22 October 2021. The seminar will provide an opportunity to doctoral researchers for networking with
On May 6 and 7, 2021, Mr. Jean-François Thony, President of the Siracusa International Institute is participating in the online conference “Modernising EU justice system by boosting training of justice professionals”. The initiative is co-organized by the Portuguese Council Presidency and the European Commission. The conference is mainly aimed at gathering the main stakeholders involved
The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime will organize on May 6 at 2PM CET a webinar on “Tackling Organized Corruption and Monitoring Governmental Anti-Corruption Pledges in the Western Balkans“. The event will showcase new publications by the GI-TOC that are part of the “Infrastructure of Integrity” series: The first, entitled Political Economy of Organized Corruption
The Siracusa International Institute strongly condemns the brutal murder of Giorgios Karaivaz, a well-known Greek investigative journalist, who was killed on Friday 9 April in Athens. Mr Karaivaz is unfortunately only the latest of a long list of journalists to be murdered around the world. This is an extremely serious matter because it is presumable
The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights will organize the 20th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on ‘Human Rights, Criminal Justice and International Law’ (exclusively online) from July 5 until July 9, 2021. The course will be sponsored by the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP – France),
The Siracusa International Institute mourns the loss of Professor Alfonso Maria Stile, former dean of the Institute and currently honorary vice president. Professor Stile was a personal friend of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni and has worked at his side since the early years of the Institute’s existence, contributing to the achievement of its most important
