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Justice Info regularly opens its pages to various actors in the field of international justice (researchers, academics, activists, experts of all kinds) to express their unfiltered opinion or to detail an in-depth analysis.

A priest and musicians celebrate a mass in memory of 3 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala in the 1980s.

Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims?

In the early 1980s, three Belgian missionaries were killed and disappeared in Guatemala. More than 40 years after the crimes took place, on June 14 a Belgian court has ordered the arrest of five former high-level Guatemalan government officials for these crimes. At a moment when obtaining justice in Guatemala is increasingly unlikely, how can […]

By Sanne Weber

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.

Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere

Offices of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Windows in perspective.

The ICC at 20: elusive success, double standards and the “Ukraine moment”

A soldier of the Syrian government army points his weapon at a large hole whose bottom is not visible

What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice

3 soldiers (Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun) stand behind bars

Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions

Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is visiting Bucha (Ukraine) with Iryna Venediktova. On the back of a person accompanying them, one can read

Ukraine: The risk of judging war crimes during war

Two women (one holding a cross) in a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine.

Genocide in Ukraine: what are the roots of the debate?

Gibril Massaquoi at the Tempere court in Finland

Massaquoi acquittal: What has it Wrought?

Collection of portraits (archives) of victims of the

Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

Different figures (tens of thousands) of forced disappearances in Colombia. In the background, silhouette of an unknown face.

What’s behind the numbers of disappeared in the Colombian armed conflict?

Alexander Lukashenko surrounded by military (Russian and Belarusian flags)

How Lukashenko can be held accountable for Putin’s war in Ukraine

Iryna Venediktova shows pictures of alleged russians' war crimes

The future of justice for Ukraine is domestic

3 Indonesian veterans (one crying) attend a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the war of independence against the Netherlands

Dutch Colonial Violence and the Missing Voices of Indonesians

A woman (from behind) wearing a

Getting Back to What Matters: Victim Voices and the Making of International Law (3/3)

Protesters wrapped in Ukrainian flags march through the streets of central Kharkiv

ICC: civil society from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and beyond calls for more resources for the investigation in Ukraine

Two men shake hands with the help of a third, all wearing white shirts (symbol of peace in Colombia)

Negotiating amnesties, peace and justice: A new path (2/3)

Aerial view of Pul-e Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Challenges of trying a war crimes veteran in The Hague

Palestinian child standing in front of a gate without walls around it, in the middle of the ruins

Here is a way for international law to better help end conflicts (1/3)

Protester arrested by Scottish police

Scotland: Transitional justice to deal with economic violence