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All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.

Afghanistan War Commission (AWC) in the United States. Photo: A US army veteran, standing with a microphone in his hand, testifies before the commissioners.
What’s missing in the Afghanistan War Commission
27 November 2025 by Huma Saeed
The Afghanistan War Commission established by the U.S. Congress has been going on for 4 years. As it embarks on its last round of hearings it must fully address the U.S. failure to provide accountability, says the author.
Starvation and war crimes in Syria: a trial in Koblenz, Germany, attempts to make the connection. Photo: Two veiled women push a wheelchair carrying a humanitarian aid package from UNRWA down a destroyed street in Damascus. Another Syrian trial in Koblenz – but different
25 November 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
A new trial of five Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany, on November 19th. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.
Lafarge trial in Paris for crimes committed in Syria. Illustration: acrylic painting (watercolor) of the packed courtroom, viewed from the back. Inscriptions (in french) on the back of the benches: “defense lawyers, civil parties, press, public.” Lafarge on Trial - Part 2: White-Collar Terror Trial
24 November 2025 by Sharon Weill and the students of the Capstone Course (Sciences Po Paris)
In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial.
Wesley Clark, a former US NATO general, testifies on behalf of Hashim Thaçi during his trial before the Kosovo Special Chambers (KSC). Photo: Clark wears headphones, sitting in front of screens and microphones. When Wesley Clark comes to the defence
24 November 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark testified in the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
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Environmental justice, global warming, and the rights of nature - Photo: melting ice in the Arctic region.
21 November 2025 by Benjamin Bibas
The rights of nature: reason versus the industrial economy The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy.
Christian Delage, historian and filmmaker, answers questions from Justice Info about the Nuremberg trials and the role of images in international trials, in an in-depth interview. Illustration: portrait of Delage by Benoît Peyrucq.
20 November 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Nuremberg: “Judges were no longer seated in the centre, as the screen was placed there” Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images.
Roger Lumbala's trial in Paris for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Illustration: drawing showing Lumbala sitting behind his lawyer, who is speaking during the hearing.
18 November 2025 by Chloé Dubois
Filling the void in the Lumbala trial The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
Creation of the Special Tribunal for Russia's crime of aggression in Ukraine. Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset show a book. It is the agreement on the creation of the tribunal.
17 November 2025 by Oksana Rekun
Ukraine’s views on the Special Tribunal for aggression The Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, signed by the European Council, does not yet have its own building, judges or administrative staff. But it mobilizes its Ukrainian actors.
Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death in Bangladesh. Photo: portrait of Hasina.
17 November 2025 by AFP
Bangladesh: Hasina sentenced to death On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by her country's courts for ordering the deadly crackdown on protests that led to her downfall in 2024.
In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere.
14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya
“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people” In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.
Lundin trial in Sweden for alleged war crimes committed in South Sudan (formerly Sudan). Photo: Soldiers from the SPLA rebel group brandish their weapons.
13 November 2025 by Martin Schibbye
Lundin: The security chiefs’ failing memories They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet twenty-five years later, in the Lundin trial in Stockholm, the oil company’s former security chiefs remember almost nothing.
Lafarge trial in France (for crimes committed in Syria). Painting (watercolor) depicting the empty dock, where defense attorneys pile their coats.
10 November 2025 by Sharon Weil and the students of the Capstone Course (Sciences Po Paris)
Lafarge on Trial - part 1: A trial unlike any other In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial.
Illustration showing a concrete mixer truck (with the Lafarge logo printed on it) stopped at a checkpoint manned by several figures dressed in black, armed and wearing balaclavas. A long arm extends from the truck, holding a suitcase filled with banknotes bearing the image of Bashar al-Assad. On the side is an ISIS flag.
10 November 2025 by Justice Info
War and business: Lafarge in the dock The Lafarge trial, which is being held from November 4 to December 19, 2025, in a court in Paris, is addressing unusual questions about the criminal liability of companies operating in war zones.
Dennis van Berkel
7 November 2025 by Benjamin Bibas
“The most conscious step was to take climate change to national courts” The COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel, co-founder of the Climate Litigation Network, reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has trickled up to the international level.
Women wearing burqas in Afghanistan
6 November 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.
Human trafficking in Libya originating in Eritrea: a trial in the Netherlands. Photo: Eritrean women protest outside the court in Zwolle during the Walid trial.
6 November 2025 by Margherita Capacci
The “quite extraordinary” trial of human trafficker Walid Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
Justice for Gaza: what are the various initiatives for justice for Gaza around the world, at the national and international levels (via the ICC, the ICJ, and the UN)? Image: world map with a photo of a completely destroyed street in Gaza, seen from the sky, superimposed on it.
4 November 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what? It's a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, numerous courts, both international and national have been seized for the alleged crimes committed by Israeli soldiers and senior officials.
The French company Lafarge (cement) and its executives are on trial in France. They are accused of participating in the financing of terrorist groups in Syria. Photo: aerial view of the Lafarge factory in Jalabiya, Syria.
3 November 2025 by Chloé Dubois
Lafarge faces justice for financing terrorism The Lafarge trial opens on Tuesday 4 November in Paris. The French cement manufacturer is in the dock, as a legal entity, along with eight former executives, managers and intermediaries, for financing terrorism in Syria.
The island of Bonaire is suing the Netherlands (location of the trial) for its inaction on global warming. Photo: a beach on Bonaire submerged by waves.
31 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Climate change: adaptation on trial, a first in Europe Bonaire is both Caribbean and European. Now, the inhabitants of this flat island threatened by rising sea levels are filing a complaint against the Netherlands, demanding to be treated like other Dutch citizens.