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: The thorny issue of reparations
30 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
There is no justice without reparations. That is all the more true when it comes to international crimes. But the mechanisms of reparation are still problematic, whether at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or in national tra [...]
28 July 2017
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has already held ten of its 20 planned public hearings. The last one, on July 21, examined the issue of electoral fraud under former presidents Bourguiba and Beni Ali. Mohamed Bennour, an act [...]
26 July 2017
by AFP
Congolese rebel warlord Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, wanted for crimes against humanity including mass rape, surrendered to UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday. Sheka was arrested in Mutongo, in the country's [...]
24 July 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The existing transitional justice (TJ) system in Nepal fails to open avenues for social justice as it is envisioned and demanded at the local level. Rather, the current system promotes a gap between the mainstream (i.e. the State) [...]
24 July 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Palestinian civil society urges the ICC to act
Lawyers representing 448 named victims and 42 Palestinian civil society organizations have presented to International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda a thick file of complaints against Israeli settlement, its blockade of [...]
23 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: International Justice becomes reality, despite the challenges
The week just ended began with an anniversary: International Justice Day. Despite criticism -- both founded and unfounded – and numerous challenges still to be met, international criminal justice will go down in the history of Hu [...]
21 July 2017
by Angela Mudukuti
Non-Compliance But No Referral-The ICC Muddies the Waters
Angela Mudukuti joins us for this take on the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding South Africa’s failure to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the ICC. Angela Mudukuti is an internat [...]
19 July 2017
by AFP
ICC judges ordered to review freeing I.Coast ex-leader Gbagbo
Judges must review whether to release the ageing former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo for the rest of his crimes against humanity trial, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. Gbagbo, the first ex-head of state to be tried by the I [...]
19 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Constitutional row divides pre-election Mali
In Mali, the opposition and part of civil society are up in arms against a government plan to revise the Constitution. Opponents of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta accuse him of having concocted the new text to ensure he is re-el [...]
19 July 2017
by AFP
Thai smuggling crackdown leaves Myanmar's Rohingya in limbo
Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, where disease and deprivation are rife and armed guards patrol a barbed-wire perimeter. But after a crackdown [...]
18 July 2017
by Oliver Slow, Frontier
Myanmar villagers tell of abuses during crackdown in Rakhine
Residents of villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State have told reporters of accounts of human rights abuses by security forces during clearance operations conducted in the aftermath of the October 9 attack on police outposts [...]
18 July 2017
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunisia
Tunisia plans amnesty for corrupt public employees
With many of its articles removed, Tunisia’s law on “economic reconciliation” looks likely to be adopted by parliament in the coming days. But the text is still imperfect and remains controversial. Two years ago, on July 14, 2015 [...]
17 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: justice versus peace
As the world celebrates International Justice Day this July 17, the peace versus justice debate continues in Uganda, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and many other countries. On the one hand is the [...]
14 July 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
International Justice Day: From dreams to challenges
In the 19th century international justice, which is being celebrated this July 17 (The Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted in Rome on July 17, 1998), was a utopian dream. But at the end of the 20th century it b [...]
13 July 2017
by AFP
S.African 'political' murderer in parole limbo
Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches, watching inmates closely as they meet visitors. Among the notorious jail's residents is 51-year-old triple murderer P [...]
12 July 2017
by AFP
Myanmar slammed over visa refusal to UN Rohingya probe
Aung San Suu Kyi's government in Myanmar risks getting bracketed with "pariah states" like North Korea and Syria over its refusal to grant visas to a UN team investigating the plight of Rohingya Muslims, activists said Wednesday. [...]
11 July 2017
by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Togo “purification” leaves bitter taste for many
In Togo, the transitional justice process put in place by the authorities seems to be dividing people more than it is reconciling them. And it was amid controversy that the High Commission for Reconciliation and National Unity (HC [...]
10 July 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Uganda’s amnesty law and the peace/justice dilemma
A new amnesty law for Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters has been before the Ugandan parliament has since 2015. It would put an end to the existing ambiguity between the general amnesty law of 2000, which is currently in force, [...]
10 July 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Impunity in Mexico, disappointment in Georgia
Transitional justice can take different forms. This week several international and national NGOs called in The Hague for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes in Mexico. They accuse State authorities of “col [...]