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.
Week in Review: Tears for Tunisia and the ICC, money for the CAR
21 November 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
The first public hearings of victims started this week in Tunisia while the International Criminal Court (ICC), holding its annual Assembly of States Parties, suffered criticism and a new symbolic departure – that of Russia, which [...]
18 November 2016
by AFP
As anger erupted and the tears began to flow, four hours of testimony on live television by abuse victims shone a rare spotlight on the crimes of Tunisia's dark dictatorship years. In a plain white room inside a night club once ow [...]
18 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Yesterday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin issued an order to notify the United Nations that Russia was withdrawing its signature from the Rome Statute, the treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Russia never ratified [...]
17 November 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
A donor conference for the Central African Republic is taking place Thursday November 17 in Brussels, with participants including the country’s new president Faustin-Archange Touadéra. His record after nearly a year in office is d [...]
17 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Central African Republic: Support the Special Criminal Court
(Brussels) – Donor countries meeting in Brussels on November 17, 2016, should support the Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court, 17 Central African and international human rights non-governmental organizations said in [...]
16 November 2016
by FIDH
ASP 15: Five Recommendations to Strengthen the International Criminal Court
(The Hague) On the occasion of the 15th session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the ICC Statute, which takes place in the Hague from 16 to 24 November 2016, FIDH presents its position paper with five recommendations to [...]
16 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
ICC: Defend Core Principles, says HRW
Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should protect the court’s ability to fully and fairly provide justice for the worst international crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent withdrawals from the court [...]
15 November 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Afghan and US crimes top ICC Prosecutor’s report on preliminary probes
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has just released an annual report on her preliminary examinations. For the moment , Fatou Bensouda has not announced that she is opening any new investigation or closing an [...]
14 November 2016
by Michele Krech
Nation-to-Nation Reconciliation in Canada
For over a century, Indigenous children in Canada were separated from their families, communities and cultures to attend government-funded, church-run residential schools, in a concerted effort to assimilate them into mainstream C [...]
13 November 2016
by Pierre Hazan
This week in review: from Donald Trump to Libya, Tunisia and Burkina Faso
The week was marked by a big event, likely to have big consequences: the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. What will be the attitude of the next US administration, which takes office on January [...]
11 November 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC Prosecutor sets Libya priority, including Gaddafi regime and crimes against migrants
On November 9, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) went to the UN Security Council to present her 12th report on the situation in Libya. Fatou Bensouda says she plans to make Libya one of her priorities in 201 [...]
10 November 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
Tunisia still waiting to get Ben Ali clan funds back from Switzerland
More than five years after the Tunisian revolution, 43 million Swiss francs from the corrupt system of former dictator Ben Ali remain blocked in Switzerland. In April 2014, Tunisia thought it would be able to recover 35 million p [...]
9 November 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisia is losing its dreams of justice, warns expert
Wahid Ferchichi is a professor of public law, expert in transitional justice and researcher at the Centre Kawakibi for democratic transitions, an independent research body on developments in Tunisia since the political upheavals o [...]
9 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
US: Trump Should Govern With Respect for Rights
(Washington, DC) – United States President-elect Donald Trump should abandon campaign rhetoric that seemed to reject many of the United States’ core human rights obligations and put rights at the heart of his administration’s dome [...]
8 November 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Two years after their uprising, people of Burkina Faso want justice
At the end of October 2014, mass demonstrations spread like wildfire through the towns of Burkina Faso. They were in protest at a planned change to the Constitution aimed at allowing President Blaise Compaoré to run for a fifth te [...]
7 November 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Is “ecocide” the new crime against humanity?
On December 7, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 was 45,000 km from Earth. The three astronauts had the sun behind them and were heading for the Moon, where they were going to land. It was then they took the first photo of our planet. E [...]
7 November 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in review: French forces leave the CAR, and some African support for the ICC
Africa remained at the centre of transitional justice news this week. November 1 marked the departure of French forces from the Central African Republic, three years after the start of their mission to protect civilians. But the C [...]
6 November 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
No giving up, says Swiss NGO, after blood diamonds trial setback
There will be no “blood diamonds” trial of Michel Desaedeleer, the first person to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in blood diamond trading that fuelled civil war and serious huma [...]
4 November 2016
by Oliver Slow
Rights groups urge access to Myanmar's northern Rakhine State
The government in Myanmar is coming under pressure from human rights groups to open northern Rakhine State to independent observers so they can investigate claims of abuses by the security forces. HUMAN RIGHTS groups have urged th [...]