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.
From Berlin to Aleppo: the need to redefine transitional justice
19 December 2016
by Pierre Hazan
According to Google, it takes 35 hours to drive by car the 3,397.4 kilometres from Berlin to Aleppo. Metaphorically, the distance is infinitely longer between these two symbolic cities. Twenty-seven years ago, the fall of the Berl [...]
19 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
On December 15, the lawyer for Jean Ping, recent candidate in Gabon’s elections, filed a complaint to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing the Gabonese authorities of crimes against humanity. This come [...]
19 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Can a smartphone and an App hold war criminals accountable? Eyewitness, an App developed by the International Bar Association (IBA), is trying to help combat impunity with this new technological tool, said to be reliable, free and [...]
16 December 2016
by JusticeInfo.Net
Historian Ferdinand Nahimana and Father Emmanuel Rukundo, who are among the most well-known convicts of the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), could not have asked for more. They will start 2017 as free men. I [...]
16 December 2016
by Mamadou Ben Chérif Diabaté in Bamako
Hopes for justice in Mali after start of coup-leader’s trial
In Mali, civil society hopes the trial of the 2012 coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo which opened on November 30 will pave the way for independent justice and an end to impunity. Sanogo and and 17 others are accused in connection wit [...]
15 December 2016
by Oliver Slow
Two months on, renewed humanitarian access call in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state
YANGON — The United Nations has reiterated a call for access to northern Rakhine State, where it says 130,000 people have been cut off from regular aid shipments for more than two months. The government has banned most access to M [...]
14 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC calls S. Africa and UN to explain lack of cooperation on Bashir
South Africa has been summoned to appear before the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 7, 2017, over its failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in June 2015. The United Nations has also been cal [...]
13 December 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
eyeWitness: When a smartphone could hold war criminals accountable
EyeWitness won the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Prize for Innovation in Global Security last month in Geneva. eyeWitness provides human rights defenders, journalists, and ordinary citizens with a mobile app to capture [...]
12 December 2016
by Gaël Cogné in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso still awaiting justice for Sankara and Zongo murders
December 13 marks 18 years since the assassination of journalist Norbert Zongo in Burkina Faso. Civil society organizations are organizing commemorations. But the Zongo family is not alone in demanding justice. Those close to for [...]
12 December 2016
by Dr Thomas Obel Hansen, Lecturer of Law, Transitional Justice Institute/ Ulster University Law School, Belfast, UK.
Will Kenya withdraw from the ICC?
Whereas a Kenyan withdrawal from the ICC is a real possibility, Nairobi may be tempted to instead use the threat of a withdrawal to push its agenda on the ICC. Since Burundi announced in October that it had decided to withdraw fr [...]
12 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: Landmark trials and landmark struggles for transitional justice
Transitional justice, the focus of our website, is still a little understood concept, according to Kora Andrieu, an expert in the field. “The problem with transitional justice, he says, is that the term can be taken to mean that i [...]
9 December 2016
by Pierre Hazan
African “withdrawals” from the ICC produce a new twist…
At the end of October, three African countries announced with fanfare that they were leaving the International Criminal Court (ICC). They slammed it for lack of legitimacy, unjustified attacks against Africans and neo-colonialism. [...]
8 December 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, Geneva
“The UN Security Council should do more to protect the population of South Sudan.”
The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng has made various worrying statements this month of November. A few days ago, he has warned about the ethnic violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and reminded [...]
7 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ugandan child soldier turned "war criminal" on trial at ICC
The trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier turned commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), started at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday December 6. Ongwen is accused of crimes against h [...]
7 December 2016
by AFP
UN prosecutors urge life term for 'Butcher of Bosnia'
Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to jail Ratko Mladic for life, accusing the former Serb commander of a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Serbia in the 1990s Balkans wars. "It would be... an insult [...]
6 December 2016
by Aude Marcovitch, correspondent in Jerusalem
Israel moves to “legalize” all West Bank settlements
Next to Route 60, a road that crosses the length of the West Bank, to the northeast of Ramallah lies the Israeli settlement of Ofra. If you go through this place peopled by some 3,000 inhabitants, a ribbon of tarmac climbs up a ne [...]
6 December 2016
by Human Rights Watch
French Court Confirms Genocide Conviction of Former Rwandan Intelligence Chief
A French court on Saturday confirmed the 25-year prison sentence of Pascal Simbikangwa for genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. Simbikangwa was a former intelligence chief in Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 geno [...]
6 December 2016
by Samuel Okiror
Kony’s killers – are child soldiers accountable when they become men?
The trial of Dominic Ongwen, a senior member of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, opens on Tuesday before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Many horrors will be recounted, but the case also throws up deep ethical [...]
6 December 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : NGOs became neo-liberal business
On December 10th the World will celebrate universal human rights day. The occasion will be recognized in Nepal, but unfortunately democratization and human rights have become more buzzword than practice. The policies that have bee [...]