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Djaouida Siaci is an attorney with a dual specialization in cross-border disputes and international criminal investigation with a focus on the GCC and the Middle East and North Africa region. Mrs. Siaci has over 20 years of legal experience in private practice and counsel roles, including in the GCC. Ms. Siaci holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School; a postgraduate degree in Public International Law and Law of International Organizations from the University of Paris, Sorbonne; and a law degree from the University of Algiers, Faculty of Law. She is a current member of the New York, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia Bars. She practices law in North Carolina.
The Gambia Charges Genocide at the World Court: Pursuing and Achieving Justice for the Rohingya
This article discusses the efforts taken by The Gambia on behalf of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to obtain provincial measures from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) directing Myanmar to cease-and-desist ongoing genocide, to cease destroying evidence of genocide, and to “take all measures within its power” to prevent any acts of genocide against the Rohingya occurring in the future.
The Mass Rape of Rohingya Muslim Women: An All-Out War Against All Women
Rape has been a central component of the genocidal campaign waged by Myanmar’s military and security forces against the Rohingya ethnic minority, in which Rohingya Muslim women and girls have suffered unspeakable sexual violence. Yet, there has been little accountability, as those responsible for what the UN, U.S. elected officials, the government of Canada and other governments have called genocide, have gone largely unpunished.
