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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.

“UN and African Union should act together to end impunity in the CAR”
25 February 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
In the Central African Republic (CAR), President Touadera’s February 14 nomination of a Prosecutor for the Special Criminal Court* is an important step, but should not raise unrealistic hopes, according to jurist Didier Niewiadows [...]
Court ruling against ICC withdrawal an “embarrassment” for South Africa
24 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
This week, the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, ruled that the government’s notification to the UN last October of its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was unconstitutional. South Africa’s announcement o [...]
S.African court rules against govt plan to pull out of ICC
22 February 2017 by AFP
A South African court on Wednesday ruled the government's plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was "unconstitutional and invalid", providing a boost to the embattled Hague-based institution.The ICC has been [...]
In Myanmar, "transition has to be built on the voices of the people"
21 February 2017 by Arnaud Dubus
From 2009 to 2015, Matthew Mullen, a lecturer at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies of Mahidol University, in Thailand, tracked the diverse and complex pathways through which political change came to Myanmar. Instead [...]
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21 February 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial adviser and associate professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Challenges of the new Special Court for the CAR A Special Criminal Court to deal with war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) is now being set up. On February 14, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra appointed as Prosecutor of this Special Court Toussaint Muntazini Muki [...]
21 February 2017 by AFP
South Sudan: five things to know South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic crisis due to a devastating civil war.Independent since 2011, the world's newest country was engulfed by civil war i [...]
20 February 2017 by The Conversation
Lessons from The Gambia to end the impasse in South Sudan Not for the first time, South Sudan appears on the International Crisis Group watch list of the world’s most volatile conflicts to watch. This is on top of climbing to second on Transparency International’s index of the most corru [...]
20 February 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: CAR and Gambia take positive steps on justice This week Africa and Africans showed that transitional justice, so often criticized on that continent, can complement national justice.  The Central African Republic (CAR) finally appointed a Prosecutor for its future Special Crim [...]
17 February 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Central African Special Court gets Congolese Prosecutor On February 14, Central African Republic (CAR) president Faustin-Archange Touadéra signed a decree appointing the Prosecutor of the country’s Special Criminal Court (SCC). The appointment of jurist and military man Colonel Toussai [...]
16 February 2017 by HEIN KO SOE & OLIVER SLOW FRONTIER
Preparing for the next peace conference in Myanmar Plans are underway to hold the next Union Peace Conference at the end of this month, but the government and non-signatories of a 2015 peace agreement cannot agree how to tackle the thorny issue of how to bring peace to Myanmar. Fe [...]
15 February 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
After 15 years, ICC States still debating crime of aggression In 2017, member States of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are supposed to promulgate the Kampala amendments to the Court’s Statute, giving the ICC a green light to prosecute those most responsible for crimes of “aggression” [...]
15 February 2017 by AFP
Barrow appoints Gambian UN prosecutor as chief justice President Adama Barrow appointed a Gambian UN prosecutor as chief justice of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, ending a series of controversial foreign appointments to the position by former leader Yahya Jammeh. Hassan Bubacar Jallo [...]
15 February 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal: the Transitional Justice Commissions and Victims’ Critical Engagement Transitional justice has been a stated priority throughout Nepal’s peace process following the end of the ‘People’s War’ in 2006, but it took nearly 10 years before the two truth commissions (Truth and Reconciliation Commission TR [...]
13 February 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review:Judicial complaint in Spain against Syrian regime sets precedent Is a first trial in Europe against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad likely? It looks more so after Spanish state prosecutor Javier Zaragoza officially registered a complaint filed by a woman of dual Syrian and Spanis [...]
10 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Can the African Union save South Sudan? Two years after independence in 2011, South Sudan descended into a war which continues to rage, with analysts fearing a possible genocide. In January alone, more than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda as continued fighting risk [...]
10 February 2017 by Pierre Hazan
New challenges for transitional justice on the path to peace “The times are they are a-changing”, Bob Dylan used to sing. The winner of the 2016 Nobel prize for literature was surely not thinking about transitional justice when he wrote those lines back in the 1960s. Yet times are also chan [...]
9 February 2017 by François Musseau, correspondent in Madrid
Spanish court receives complaint for “State terrorism” in Syria French and German judicial authorities have recently been seized of cases against the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria, which was again denounced this week for allegedly hanging thousands of opponents. But the National Audience in [...]
7 February 2017 by AFP
Israel settler law angers world powers but Trump Israel faced mounting international criticism Tuesday over a new law allowing the appropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settler outposts, but the United States remained notably silent. The United Nations, Britain, F [...]
7 February 2017 by Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide
ICC : Why Withdrawing from the Rome Statute Undermines International Justice for Everyone July 2017 marks 15 years since the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court came into force. Many years of painstaking and protracted regional and international diplomacy preceded its adoption in order to sec [...]