All Justice Info articles since 2015
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.
Week in Review: Steps towards justice for a forgotten genocide
20 March 2017
by François Sergent
Transitional justice this week caught up with the colonial German army’s genocide of Herero and Nama people in Namibia in 1904, seen as the first genocide in history. A New York judge accepted a complaint filed by descendants of H [...]
17 March 2017
by AFP
Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule, when tens of thousands of people were killed, according to documents seen by AFP on Friday. The Namib [...]
15 March 2017
by Ram Bhandari
“When I see the role of NGOs, human rights groups and politics, I think transitional justice is rather an experimental laboratory of various actors, where suffering families’ continue to wait for justice and gain nothing from the [...]
15 March 2017
by Human Rights Watch
(Nairobi, March 15, 2017) – Killings by Ugandan military and police during joint operations in Kasese, western Uganda on November 26-27, 2016, warrant an independent, impartial fact-finding mission with international expertise, Hu [...]
15 March 2017
by ICTJ
A Foundation of Lies: "Relatives for Justice" Unpacks the Truth about the Irish Conflict
On February 12th, 1989, sledgehammers smashed through Pat Finucane’s front door in north Belfast. Paramilitaries stormed his family home and found the 39-year-old human rights lawyer eating Sunday dinner with his wife and three [...]
14 March 2017
by Thomas Kean (Frontier Myanmar)
Myanmar needs international inquiry on Rohingya abuses by security forces, says UN rapporteur
As the Human Rights Council session in Geneva gets underway, Thomas Kean of our partner Frontier speaks to UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee about her call for a commission of inquiry into alleged abu [...]
14 March 2017
by Jehanne Henry (Human Rights Watch)
Opinion : Sudan’s New Image Can’t Disguise Harsh Reality
Last week, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir released 193 Darfuri rebel fighters from prison, some of whom had been there for nine years. He also waived the death penalty against 66 others. Days earlier, a Khartoum court released [...]
14 March 2017
by AFP
Colombia to set up special war crimes courts
Colombia's senate late Monday approved a constitutional reform to set up special war crimes courts, a key component of the historic peace agreement with FARC guerrillas that ended five decades of war. The court system will be made [...]
13 March 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Three African women in transitional justice
“When I think – about the world, politics, freedom, literature, and so on – I do not feel like a woman at all,” wrote French philosopher Belinda Cannone. Her reflection is especially good to remember around International Women’s D [...]
9 March 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
The rise and fall of Ivorian ex-First Lady Simone Gbagbo
For many of her admirers, Simone Gbagbo, whose trial resumed in her absence Tuesday before an Abidjan court, remains the “Iron Lady”, even behind bars. But for her detractors, she is the “Bloodstained Lady”. Côte d’Ivoire’s former [...]
8 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ukraine accuses Russia of terrorism at the International Court of Justice
Ukraine and Russia are this week facing off against each other before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Kiev accuses Moscow of violating two international Conventions, one on funding terrorism and one on the e [...]
7 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC Prosecutor at a turning point
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has been in her post since June 16, 2012, and is now half way through her mandate. In four and a half years she has opened two new cases -- Mali and Georgia -- and issue [...]
7 March 2017
by AFP
South Africa revokes decision to leave ICC: UN
South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of Pretoria's decision to end the w [...]
6 March 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tunisia’s difficult transition, no justice for Syria and Sri Lanka
In Tunisia, a lawyer is fighting for the decriminalization of cannabis use. The issue might seem marginal in comparison with war crimes and crimes against humanity. But for him, imprisonment of mostly young cannabis users under a [...]
3 March 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Sri Lanka’s victims demand justice, while government plays for time
Sri Lanka’s government this week asked the UN Human Rights Council for more time to fulfil its promises under a 2015 Resolution on justice for civil war victims. The international community welcomed the surprise election of Presid [...]
1 March 2017
by AFP
Syria regime, rebels committed war crimes in Aleppo: UN probe
All Syrian sides that fought in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes and the deal to evacuate civilians following the rebel defeat was a "crime of forced displacement', a UN probe said Wednesday. The United Nations Commissio [...]
1 March 2017
by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Pennsylvania State University
Dealing with hate: Can America's truth and reconciliation commissions help?
Recent vandalism in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia illustrates the all too real problem of hate crime faced by many communities in the United States. Just this February, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that [...]