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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.

Mali’s opposition regrets armed groups not in new government
14 April 2017 by JusticeInfo's Ephrem Rugiririza with Studio Tamani in Bamako
On April 11, less than a week after his appointment by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Mali’s new Prime Minister Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga published the names of his government team. The opposition had hoped after the recent Confe [...]
Freedom of opinion and expression under threat in Tanzania
13 April 2017 by JusticeInfo.Net
Is Tanzania still the “peaceful and stable country” that its residents and visitors say it is? Since the start of this year, more and more people, including from within the ranks of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Rev [...]
War Justice Strategy for Kosovo Undermined by Divisions
13 April 2017 by Marija Ristic
A Kosovo government-backed working group set up to draft a national strategy for dealing with the wartime past has been troubled by divisions, disputes and failures to deliver, a new report says. Kosovo’s Inter-Ministerial Working [...]
Judging crimes of the Jammeh era poses challenge in Gambia
12 April 2017 by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Gambia is awaiting the creation of a transitional justice mechanism promised by the new government to help heal wounds after 22 years of dictatorial rule under former president Yahya Jammeh. In the meantime, police and judiciary h [...]
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9 April 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: US strikes in Syria, while Rwanda remembers the genocide International justice saw a new failure this week on Syria. The UN Security Council was unable to agree a Resolution after the “chemical weapons” massacre at Khan Cheikhoun which left dozens dead and injured, including children. U [...]
7 April 2017 by Pierre Hazan
Syrian war crime brings illegal but perhaps legitimate US strikes Syrian air force use of chemical weapons against civilians is a war crime, or even a crime against humanity. The retaliatory US missile strikes are perhaps legitimate, but certainly illegal under international law.   On Friday Aug [...]
6 April 2017 by AFP
US warns of 'own action' after Syria chemical massacre The United States and Russia were on a collision course over Syria on Wednesday after a horrific chemical attack so shocked President Donald Trump that Washington threatened unilateral US action. At least 86 people were killed ear [...]
5 April 2017 by Sara Perria, IRIN
UN convenes Rohingya abuse investigation, but Myanmar says it won’t cooperate YANGON, 4 April 2017 - The UN’s main human rights body is assembling a team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya, even as the government appears set to deny investigators access to areas where crimes against huma [...]
3 April 2017 by François Sergent (JusticeInfo.net)
Week in Review: Simone Gbagbo, Myanmar, universal jurisdiction and satellites An Abidjan court’s March 28 acquittal of former Ivorian First Lady Simone Gbagbo, charged with “crimes against humanity”, was the big surprise of this week in transitional justice. Was it a judicial or a political decision? Human [...]
31 March 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Can satellite imagery still prove war crimes? A few years ago, satellite images were seen as a decisive technological advance that could reveal the truth about war crimes. Satellite images provided essential confirmation of atrocities in Srebrenica and Sudan. But those who vi [...]
31 March 2017 by Human Rights Watch
DR Congo: Bodies of Two UN Experts Found 4 Congolese Still Missing Update March 28, 2017: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, confirmed on March 28, 2017, that the bodies of Zaida Catalán, a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an A [...]
29 March 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Myanmar lacks discussion on post-conflict justice, says expert In Myanmar, the start of a democratic transition in 2010 and the arrival in power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in early 2016 raised much hope. But the military still holds considerable power. Conflicts [...]
29 March 2017 by Human Rights Watch
Côte d’Ivoire: Simone Gbagbo Acquitted After Flawed War Crimes Trial First Lady’s Acquittal Highlights ICC Process As Critical Path for Victims. (Nairobi) – The acquittal in Côte d’Ivoire of former Ivorian first lady Simone Gbagbo for crimes against humanity based on a process marred by fair trial [...]
28 March 2017 by AFP
I.Coast ex-first lady Simone Gbagbo acquitted of crimes against humanity An Ivory Coast jury on Tuesday acquitted former first lady Simone Gbagbo of crimes against humanity during the 2010-11 post-election crisis in a stunning verdict after the prosecution had sought to jail her for life. "A majority o [...]
27 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Universal jurisdiction gains ground from Pinochet to Syria Universal jurisdiction is making slow but steady progress as a tool against impunity, and not only in Europe. This is according to a report published on Monday March 27 by five human rights organizations. Forty-seven people suspec [...]
27 March 2017 by François Sergent (JusticeInfo.net)
Week in Review: Focus on victims at the International Criminal Court Reparations are one of the four pillars of transitional justice (along with truth, justice and the guarantee of non-repetition), and this week the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered for the first time that some small indiv [...]
27 March 2017 by Kelli Muddell, Director of the ICTJ's Gender Justice Program and Sibley Hawkins, ICTJ Program Officer
Tunisia : Men and Boys Are Victims Of Sexual Violence, Too Something unusual happened on the first day of the public hearings being held by Tunisia’s national Truth and Dignity Commission. Sami Brahim came forward to give personal testimony of having survived sexual violence in prison dur [...]
27 March 2017 by Oliver Windridge Counsel at the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, Washington D.C
International Criminal Justice in Africa: Examining African Alternatives to the ICC In 2016 the threat of mass withdrawals from the ICC once again came into prominence. Since the turn of the year, whilst the threat remains a real concern to many observers, it has been somewhat tempered by Gambia’s and South Afric [...]
24 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC grants first individual reparations to victims The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided on March 24 that victims of crimes committed by convicted Congolese  militiaman Germain Katanga will get both individual and collective reparations. This is the first time that the Co [...]