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.
Preparing for the next peace conference in Myanmar
16 February 2017
by HEIN KO SOE & OLIVER SLOW FRONTIER
Plans are underway to hold the next Union Peace Conference at the end of this month, but the government and non-signatories of a 2015 peace agreement cannot agree how to tackle the thorny issue of how to bring peace to Myanmar. Fe [...]
15 February 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
In 2017, member States of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are supposed to promulgate the Kampala amendments to the Court’s Statute, giving the ICC a green light to prosecute those most responsible for crimes of “aggression” [...]
Barrow appoints Gambian UN prosecutor as chief justice
15 February 2017
by AFP
President Adama Barrow appointed a Gambian UN prosecutor as chief justice of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, ending a series of controversial foreign appointments to the position by former leader Yahya Jammeh. Hassan Bubacar Jallo [...]
Nepal: the Transitional Justice Commissions and Victims’ Critical Engagement
15 February 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional justice has been a stated priority throughout Nepal’s peace process following the end of the ‘People’s War’ in 2006, but it took nearly 10 years before the two truth commissions (Truth and Reconciliation Commission TR [...]
13 February 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review:Judicial complaint in Spain against Syrian regime sets precedent
Is a first trial in Europe against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad likely? It looks more so after Spanish state prosecutor Javier Zaragoza officially registered a complaint filed by a woman of dual Syrian and Spanis [...]
10 February 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Can the African Union save South Sudan?
Two years after independence in 2011, South Sudan descended into a war which continues to rage, with analysts fearing a possible genocide. In January alone, more than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda as continued fighting risk [...]
10 February 2017
by Pierre Hazan
New challenges for transitional justice on the path to peace
“The times are they are a-changing”, Bob Dylan used to sing. The winner of the 2016 Nobel prize for literature was surely not thinking about transitional justice when he wrote those lines back in the 1960s. Yet times are also chan [...]
9 February 2017
by François Musseau, correspondent in Madrid
Spanish court receives complaint for “State terrorism” in Syria
French and German judicial authorities have recently been seized of cases against the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria, which was again denounced this week for allegedly hanging thousands of opponents. But the National Audience in [...]
7 February 2017
by AFP
Israel settler law angers world powers but Trump
Israel faced mounting international criticism Tuesday over a new law allowing the appropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settler outposts, but the United States remained notably silent. The United Nations, Britain, F [...]
7 February 2017
by Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide
ICC : Why Withdrawing from the Rome Statute Undermines International Justice for Everyone
July 2017 marks 15 years since the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court came into force. Many years of painstaking and protracted regional and international diplomacy preceded its adoption in order to sec [...]
7 February 2017
by AFP
Syrian prisons: accusations of torture and executions
The Syrian regime, accused by Amnesty International of large-scale hangings, had already been criticised for torture and summary executions in its prisons and intelligence services headquarters. Amnesty said on Tuesday as many as [...]
6 February 2017
by Maxime DOMEGNI, regional correspondent
Gambia: Will justice one day catch up with Yahya Jammeh?
It was under threat of a military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that Yahya Jammeh, President of Gambia for 22 years, finally decided to cede power to the winner of the December 1, 2016 elec [...]
6 February 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: Africa and the International Criminal Court, Tunisia and Myanmar
Once again this week, Africa and its relations with the International Criminal Court were in the spotlight. During the African Union summit this week, AU leaders recommended a mass withdrawal of African States from the Internatio [...]
3 February 2017
by AFP
Ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas in Myanmar : UN
Myanmar's military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims has likely killed hundreds of people, with children slaughtered and women raped in a campaign that may amount to ethnic cleansing, the UN said Friday. A report from the United Natio [...]
2 February 2017
by Elise Keppler HRW
AU's 'ICC Withdrawal Strategy' Less than Meets the Eye
The African Union made headlines Tuesday for purportedly agreeing to mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. The reality is more complex. The decision by AU member states welcomes the announced withdrawals by South [...]
1 February 2017
by KYAW PHONE KYAW, HEIN KO SOE & HTUN KHAING | FRONTIER
Muslim lawyer's murder an "attack on rule of law and justice in Myanmar"
U KO NI will be remembered for having made a major contribution to Myanmar’s transition towards genuine democracy, friends, family and colleagues told Frontier in the wake of his tragic death. He was shot dead while waiting outsid [...]
31 January 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Burma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
The murder of U Ko Ni, a longtime rights and democracy activist, respected constitutional lawyer, and legal advisor for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, is a grave loss for Burma and for all those who seek to [...]
30 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tests for international justice in Switzerland and France
The arrest of a former Gambian Interior Minister in Switzerland this week is a test of the reach and limits of international justice, as is the earlier arrest in France of an ex-Prime Minister of Kosovo. Ousman Sonko, who is being [...]
30 January 2017
by Franck Petit
French arrest of former Kosovo PM is a “test for Europe”
The name of Ramush Haradinaj is again on the lips of European diplomats. This former nightclub bouncer was head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war with Serbia in 1998. Emerging victorious from the war, he was seen [...]