Working under the auspices of CIJA, the Daesh Criminal Investigative Unit has been gathering evidence of Islamic State criminality in Iraq since 2015. CNN was granted exclusive access to CIJA's investigators working on the ground in northern Iraq, whose efforts have resulted in two legal briefs identifying dozens of Islamic State members and leaders linked to the persecution of Yazidis.
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As the world's focus on Syria has shifted to Islamic State, members of the Syrian diaspora are striving to keep accountability for the Assad regime on the global agenda. CIJA Director Nerma Jelacic underscores the importance of pursuing high-level regime figures, a number of whom are believed to reside in Europe.
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A new documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation details efforts by CIJA and others to collect evidence against the Syrian regime, hoping they will eventually be used to convict President Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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CIJA is at the forefront of efforts to transform the work of human rights activists, ensuring their investigative work meets the evidentiary standards required by prosecuting bodies that might one day hold the Syrian regime to account.
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