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.
Safe Havens, Innovations in the protection of cultural property
26 April 2017
by Polina Levina Mahnad
A recent constellation of events appear to herald a shift in how the international community responds to threats to cultural property in armed conflict. At a time when many are calling international law into question and multilate [...]
26 April 2017
by Aditya Adhikari
“Today, the Shoah is a universal reference,” wrote the historian Tony Judt in 2008. Everywhere in the world the Holocaust has come to stand as the epitome of political evil. And in addition, the German people’s effort to atone for [...]
Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army: timeline
25 April 2017
by AFP
Key dates in the history of Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which the United States and Uganda have decided to stop hunting down, saying the rebels have been neutralised. One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel group [...]
Joseph Kony: uncatchable, brutal rebel chief
25 April 2017
by AFP
Brutal rebel commander Joseph Kony has sowed terror across four African nations for three decades, even evading capture by US and Ugandan soldiers who have now given up the chase. The former Catholic altar boy became one of Africa [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
Chad's Hissene Habre awaits appeal verdict for war crimes
Chad's former president Hissene Habre will Thursday hear the final decision on an appeal against a life sentence for war crimes, crimes against humanity and rape, following his landmark conviction last year. The Extraordinary Afri [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
From exile to appeal: Key dates since Habre fled Chad
Key dates in Chad since the overthrow of former dictator Hissene Habre to his appeal against a life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have occurred between 1982 and 1990: - Exile in Senegal - - Dec. 11 [...]
24 April 2017
by Lino Owor Ogora
Offering New Insights on Memory and Memorialization for Uganda
From November 25, to December 9, 2016, I was privileged to join a select group of 25 participants who attended a two-week seminar on truth, justice and remembrance in Berlin, Germany. I was the only Ugandan in the group, and one o [...]
24 April 2017
by Radwan Ziadeh Senior Analyst Arab Center Washington D.C
Building justice for Syria
Syria became the place where the most serious war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated, even one day the former secretary general Ban Ki-Moon described of what happened in Aleppo as "synonym for hell." The challenges fac [...]
24 April 2017
by Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, PhD President, INHURED International
Transitional injustice in Nepal
The Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) of 2006 ended a decade of armed conflict in Nepal between the State security forces and the CPN (Maoist). With the end of the conflict that caused more than 13,000 deaths, 1,000 disappearances, [...]
24 April 2017
by Fabio Cascardo
Truth seeking in Brazil: traps and trends
Over the last years Brazil passed through an important period of reflexion regarding its authoritarian past, in a Transitional Justice process led by the National Truth Commission (CNV). The CNV was established (Law nº 12.528/2011 [...]
24 April 2017
by Arrey Ojong Eyumeneh
Remembrance: Can Mali learn from Germany?
Whenever there are serious and /or massive human rights violations within a community or a State, victims, their family members and eye witnesses tend to seek justice and truth about what happened to their loved ones. To ensure th [...]
24 April 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : when does conflict finish for conflict survivors?
On April 13th, 2017 The Supreme Court of Nepal issued an arrest warrant for Balkrishna Dhungel, a Maoist leader and former parliamentarian, who was convicted of a murder that took place during the Nepal’s Armed Conflict. Supreme C [...]
23 April 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Central African Republic, Geneva, Tunisia and the environment
History resonates with time, and the crimes of the past cannot be erased from memory as if with the stroke of a pen. And so this week in the Central African Republic (CAR), courageous NGOs said no to amnesty and impunity. Accordi [...]
23 April 2017
by Rakiya Omaar and Caitlin Lambert
Rethinking customary law in Somaliland: specific jurisdiction for rape to promote post-conflict development
Somaliland does not enjoy international recognition as an independent state, but it does have what its people regard as their most precious asset : peace. After seceding from Somalia in May 1991, following a prolonged and bloody [...]
21 April 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Gambia: Justice for Jammeh-Era Abuses Crucial
New Government Should Develop Roadmap for Prosecutions (Nairobi) – Gambia’s government should act to prosecute those responsible for grave crimes committed during the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh. Fair trials are crucial for victi [...]
20 April 2017
by International Green parties *
International Criminal Justice Should Tackle Environmental Destruction
The intensive exploitation of natural resources triggers serious environmental destruction locally that has serious consequences on the global ecosytem. Based on this scientific fact, the Global Greens ask to reorganize internatio [...]
19 April 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Turkish obstruction keeps Geneva’s Armenian genocide memorial in public eye
The irony is that Turkey, by blocking for years the construction of a memorial in Geneva to the Armenian genocide, has made this monument more alive than if it had been built, if only because of the passions it arouses. Austrian [...]
18 April 2017
by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
Guinea plans a Truth Commission
A national workshop in Conakry of government and civil society representatives has approved a Bill to set up a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Guinea. This is in line with recommendations from the Interim National [...]
17 April 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Gambia searches for justice, while Mali struggles with reconciliation
This week, JusticeInfo looked at the first steps being taken by judicial authorities in The Gambia to deal with the innumerable crimes committed under the long rule of Yahya Jammeh, who is now in exile. Meanwhile, people in Mali [...]