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.
French court confirms Rwandan’s 25-year sentence for genocide
5 December 2016
by Franck Petit
A French court on Saturday confirmed a 25-year prison sentence on Pascal Simbikangwa, the first Rwandan to be tried for genocide in France. Simbikangwa, 57, has been detained in Fresnes, near Paris, since 2009. He was found guilty [...]
5 December 2016
by Human Rights Watch
(Brussels) – The opening of the International Criminal Court trial of a Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander is an important new chapter in holding the rebel group accountable for its brutal crimes in northern Uganda, Human Righ [...]
5 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
This week showed some of the different faces of transitional justice. In Colombia, a new peace accord was finally ratified, whilst Tunisia continued public hearings of former regime victims, and debate continued in Rwanda over the [...]
5 December 2016
by Samantha Lakin (M.A.)
The international community has established memorialization as a key transitional justice mechanism that holds symbolic value for societies recovering from conflict. As such, memorial efforts can help victims feel a sense of valid [...]
4 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICTY to hear closing arguments in Mladic case
The trial of former Bosnian Serb military boss Ratko Mladic is coming to an end before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Prosecutor’s closing arguments are due to start on Monday December 5, [...]
30 November 2016
by Marcela Aguila Rubín
‘Death opens the eyes of the living’
Secret mass graves in Mexico, daily bombings and a mounting death toll in Syria, 30,000 “disappeared” people in Argentina. What does the fight for truth and justice mean in terrible contexts like these where impunity persists? A S [...]
30 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Mali: ‘Red Berets’ Trial Marks Progress in Tackling Impunity
(Dakar) – The trial of the leader of the 2012 coup in Mali, Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and 17 co-defendants, including other members of the Malian army, is set to begin on November 30, 2016, in the southern Malian town of Sikasso. T [...]
30 November 2016
by AFP
Rwanda to probe French officials' genocide role
Rwanda on Tuesday opened a formal probe into 20 French officials suspected of playing a role in the 1994 genocide, in a move likely to further sour diplomatic ties with France. Kigali has long accused France of complicity in the g [...]
30 November 2016
by AFP
Rebuilding history? Debate rages over lost Afghan Buddhas
For centuries they stood, two monumental ancient statues of Buddha carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by generations of Afghans -- only to be pulverised by the Taliban in an act of cultural genocide. It felt like [...]
29 November 2016
by Christine Renaudat, correspondent in Bogota,
Peace and justice for Colombia?
In Colombia, FARC rebels and the government last week signed a revised peace deal to end half a decade of civil war. But the opposition says changes are only cosmetic, and it is not clear how justice will be applied to certain sec [...]
28 November 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Looking back in Nepal and Bosnia, ICC trying to look forward
It was once again a week of contrasts for transitional justice, notably in Cambodia, The Hague, South Sudan, Bosnia and Nepal, reflecting how paths to national reconciliation and their difficulties differ from country to country. [...]
25 November 2016
by Sam JAHAN / and Caroline HENSHAW in YANGON
Myanmar pursuing 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya: UN official
Myanmar is engaged in "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a UN official has said, as reports emerged Friday of troops shooting at villagers as they tried to flee. Thousands of desperate Rohingya have flooded over the border in [...]
23 November 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional justice failing in Nepal 10 years after peace deal
Nepal is this week marking the 10th anniversary of its comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) that ended the decade-long armed conflict (1996-2006) and shaped a peaceful orientation towards a new democratic Nepal. But the legacy of v [...]
23 November 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
UN struggles to act as South Sudan conflict continues
After a long debate last week, the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on action in the face of continuing massive abuses against civilians in South Sudan. A proposal supported by Washington and its Western allies on a [...]
23 November 2016
by Bénédicte Jeannerod
Burundi, a Country of Fear and Violence, says human rights activist Pierre Claver
For the past year and a half, the Burundian government has brutally crushed any form of dissent. Since the crisis triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a controversial third term began, hundreds of peopl [...]
23 November 2016
by AFP
Court upholds life sentences for Khmer Rouge leaders
Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, in a verdict welcomed by survivors of the brutal regime. "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 90, and ex- [...]
22 November 2016
by Basma Elmahdy
Bosnia: "Compensation empowers war crimes survivors", says TRIAL
Bringing justice to female survivors of wartime rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still a main concern in the field of international justice. “Over 20 years after the end of the conflict, wartime victims are still paying a high pr [...]
21 November 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC African protest continues but does not spread
At the opening of the International Criminal Court’s 15th Assembly of States Parties on November 16, protest against the Court by some African countries continued but did not, for the moment, spread. The withdrawal announcements i [...]