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.
Myanmar: Warrior for peace reflects on troubled times
9 January 2017
by MRATT KYAW THU
U AUNG Naing Oo spent years in the jungle fighting the government before he become a warrior for peace on the staff of the Myanmar Peace Center after it was established by President U Thein Sein in October 2012. After the 1988 nat [...]
9 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
In this first week of the year, we were reminded of a “genocide” that has been largely forgotten, even if historians consider it the first such mass crime of the 20th century. This is the genocide of Hereros and Namas in Namibia b [...]
9 January 2017
by AFP
Chad's former president Hissene Habre was to begin an appeal Monday against his life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity after his conviction was hailed as a landmark for Africa. The Extraordinary African Chambers, [...]
Transitional Justice in Nepal : Road to Justice or collapse ?
6 January 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
In February 2017, Nepal’s transitional justice commissions will finish their two year mandate. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for the Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), were establ [...]
5 January 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Germany set to atone for genocide in Namibia
A century after losing its South-West Africa colony, now Namibia, Germany is debating how to close one of the darkest chapters of its colonial period: the extermination of over 80% of Hereros, which was the first genocide of the 2 [...]
5 January 2017
by AFP
Scars haunt Colombian rebels as they disarm
Jair's missing right leg reminds him of many things: the heavy price he paid for fighting in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the pain he inflicted on others. The 25-year-old guerrilla came of age in the FARC, which [...]
4 January 2017
by Leigh A Payne
Report on Truth Commissions and Corporate Complicity
When the Brazilian National Truth Commission (CNV) began in 2012, its decision to investigate not only the crimes of state agents but also corporate complicity in the dictatorship’s repressive apparatus seemed like an innovative d [...]
1 January 2017
by AFP
Deal reached to end DRCongo political crisis
The government and opposition parties in the DR Congo on Saturday clinched a hard-won deal over President Joseph Kabila's fate, ending a political crisis that sparked months of deadly unrest. Under the terms of the deal, Kabila wi [...]
31 December 2016
by Leona Hollasch
How Power-Sharing Impedes Transitional Justice: Comparing Kenya and Zimbabwe
In many African countries, as well as Latin American ones (e.g. Colombia) power-sharing is often seen as the peace negotiators’ instrument of choice for conflict resolution. This tendency, however, often places those responsible f [...]
29 December 2016
by AFP
Lawmakers in Colombia pass FARC amnesty law
Colombia's Congress on Wednesday passed a law granting amnesty to Marxist FARC rebels as part of the country's peace deal, a development the government hailed as "historic." "Thanks to the Congress which in a historic vote approve [...]
27 December 2016
by AFP
Who's behind the massacres in Congo's Beni region?
The official explanation for a two-year wave of massacres in a restive corner of DR Congo centres on a shadowy rebel group accused of having ties to the global jihadist underground. But some basic details about the alleged killers [...]
20 December 2016
by Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier Myanmar
Journey through a battle zone in Myanmar
Fear, rumours and the sound of fighting accompanied Frontier on a precarious journey through the battle zone in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State. The disruption and fear created when an alliance of ethnic armed groups went on the [...]
19 December 2016
by Pierre Hazan
From Berlin to Aleppo: the need to redefine transitional justice
According to Google, it takes 35 hours to drive by car the 3,397.4 kilometres from Berlin to Aleppo. Metaphorically, the distance is infinitely longer between these two symbolic cities. Twenty-seven years ago, the fall of the Berl [...]
19 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Gabon’s election rivals continue battle before the ICC
On December 15, the lawyer for Jean Ping, recent candidate in Gabon’s elections, filed a complaint to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing the Gabonese authorities of crimes against humanity. This come [...]
19 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: New technology and old hopes for transitional justice
Can a smartphone and an App hold war criminals accountable? Eyewitness, an App developed by the International Bar Association (IBA), is trying to help combat impunity with this new technological tool, said to be reliable, free and [...]
16 December 2016
by JusticeInfo.Net
Early release for two well-known Rwandan genocide convicts
Historian Ferdinand Nahimana and Father Emmanuel Rukundo, who are among the most well-known convicts of the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), could not have asked for more. They will start 2017 as free men. I [...]
16 December 2016
by Mamadou Ben Chérif Diabaté in Bamako
Hopes for justice in Mali after start of coup-leader’s trial
In Mali, civil society hopes the trial of the 2012 coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo which opened on November 30 will pave the way for independent justice and an end to impunity. Sanogo and and 17 others are accused in connection wit [...]
15 December 2016
by Oliver Slow
Two months on, renewed humanitarian access call in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state
YANGON — The United Nations has reiterated a call for access to northern Rakhine State, where it says 130,000 people have been cut off from regular aid shipments for more than two months. The government has banned most access to M [...]
14 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC calls S. Africa and UN to explain lack of cooperation on Bashir
South Africa has been summoned to appear before the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 7, 2017, over its failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in June 2015. The United Nations has also been cal [...]