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.
Justice for victims at heart of ICC credibility, says Open Society
23 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to decide on March 24 what reparations to grant victims of former Congolese militiaman Germain Katanga, whom it sentenced in 2014 to 12 years in jail for crimes against humanity. To date, [...]
22 March 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Libyan National Army (LNA) forces may have committed war crimes, including killing and beating civilians, and summarily executing and desecrating bodies of opposition fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi on and around March 18 [...]
22 March 2017
by AFP
Judges on Wednesday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000 euros for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial in an unprecedented case before the International Crim [...]
22 March 2017
by AFP
Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal's first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003 attack on a Congolese village. Fr [...]
21 March 2017
by JusticeInfo
Genocide in Rwanda : Former aide of ex-Rwandan President Habyarimana freed in Germany
Frankfurt (Germany) – A close aide of former Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana, who had been detained in Germany since July 2016 on allegations of involvement in the 1994 genocide, was released on Monday, JusticeInfo has learn [...]
21 March 2017
by John Walubengo
Kenya: will technology deliver a free election ?
Elections present a milestone beyond which countries either strengthen their democratic credentials or become failed states. Often states fail when there are either perceived or blatant election malpractices. This in turn can lead [...]
21 March 2017
by Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University
Hannah Arendt or the power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism
“The Origins of Totalitarianism” discusses the rise of the totalitarian movements of Nazism and Stalinism to power in the 20th century. Arendt explained that such movements depended on the unconditional loyalty of the masses of [...]
20 March 2017
by Su Myat Mon, Frontier
Rakhine camps must close, says Myanmar's Annan Advisory Commission
The office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar has accepted the recommendations of an advisory panel led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which also call for the perpetrators of human rights violations to be [...]
20 March 2017
by AFP
Pope begs God's forgiveness for Church sins in Rwanda genocide
Pope Francis on Monday begged for God's forgiveness for "the sins and failings of the Church and its members" implicated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide that killed around 800,000 people. The pontiff "conveyed his profound sadness, an [...]
20 March 2017
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Steps towards justice for a forgotten genocide
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
ICC : Namibia demands $30 bln for German genocide of Herero people
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
Nepal : for an alternative route to resist global transitional justice
“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
HRW: Ensure Independent Investigation into Kasese Killings in Uganda
(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 [...]
