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.
Act Swiftly to End Impunity in Burundi
29 September 2016
by John Fisher
Burundi may have slipped off international news headlines, but killings, disappearances, and torture there continue unabated, and those responsible are getting away with it. That’s why it’s critical that Human Rights Council membe [...]
29 September 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Ruben Carranza is director of the Reparations Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and an expert in tracking dictators’ money. It is thanks to him that the Philippines, his home country, managed to r [...]
28 September 2016
by Sithu Aung Myint/ Frontier
Myanmar has recently begun important peace talks between armed ethnic groups, known as the Panglong peace conference. The conference is being pushed by Nobel peace prize winner and de-facto new leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. [...]
27 September 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on September 27 sentenced Malian Jihadist Ahmed Al Faqi Al Mahdi to nine years in jail after he pleaded guilty to destruction of historic monuments in Timbuktu as a war crime. The ICC Prosecu [...]
27 September 2016
by AFP
Malian jihadist jailed for Timbuktu attacks
War crimes judges jailed a Malian jihadist Tuesday for nine years for demolishing Timbuktu's fabled shrines, a landmark ruling seen as a warning that destroying mankind's heritage will not go unpunished. In the first such case to [...]
27 September 2016
by AFP
Colombia, FARC rebels sign historic peace deal
Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force signed a historic peace accord with the government Monday and apologized to the countless victims of the country's half-century civil war. In an emotional open-air ceremony, President Juan Manue [...]
26 September 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: From Kinshasa to Damascus, a troubled search for transitional justice
The tension and violence that marked this week show that the search for transitional justice across the world is difficult. This is despite efforts in some places not only to try suspected criminals but also to make current and fu [...]
26 September 2016
by AFP
Colombian, FARC leaders to sign historic peace deal
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC rebels, Timoleon "Timochenko" Jimenez, are due to sign a historic peace deal Monday to end a five-decade war. The former enemies will sign the accord at 5:00 pm (22 [...]
24 September 2016
by AFP
Gabon's Ali Bongo: dynastic scion in his father's shadow
Ali Bongo, whose re-election victory was upheld by Gabon's constitutional court Saturday, has long sought to emerge from the shadow of his father, Omar Bongo, who ruled the country for 41 years until his death in 2009. Bongo, a st [...]
24 September 2016
by AFP
Gabon court upholds President Ali Bongo's election win
Gabon's constitutional court has upheld President's Ali Bongo's re-election victory, rejecting an appeal by rival Jean Ping, who had called for a recount over widespread allegations of fraud. The court, while partially changing th [...]
23 September 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University, and journalist Emmanuelle Hazan
Uneven remembrance of Soviet and Nazi crimes in the Baltic States
The Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied by both the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Massive crimes against opponents and minorities were committed under both regimes, but Soviet crimes tend to oversh [...]
23 September 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana in Geneva
Damning report says Syria situation should be referred to ICC
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria on September 19 presented a damning report to the UN Human Rights Council on abuses committed there between January 10 and July 20, 2016. The Commission, which was set u [...]
20 September 2016
by Human Rights Watch
ICC: Countries Should Press Kenya on Obstruction
(Brussels, September 20, 2016) - International Criminal Court (ICC) member countries should address the court’s finding of obstruction by Kenya in the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta, Human Rights Watch said today. An ICC tr [...]
19 September 2016
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Hunger strike in The Hague, and looking back on a fiasco in Rwanda
It was a rich and varied week in transitional justice, with its high and low points. In the Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) faced new difficulties in trying former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who no longe [...]
19 September 2016
by AFP
Risk of crimes against humanity in Burundi: UN probe
Burundi's government is behind systematic human rights violations, including executions and torture, UN investigators said Tuesday, warning of possible crimes against humanity and the looming risk of "genocide". "Gross human right [...]
16 September 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
How a Swiss NGO teaches humanitarian law to Syrian rebels
With 300,000 dead in five years, millions of displaced and refugees, the war in Syria seems the ultimate symbol of human rights violations, the place most foreign to humanitarian law. But Swiss NGO Geneva Call refuses to give up, [...]
15 September 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
The UN’s Rwanda Tribunal and how it failed a Rwandan victim
It was the longest, most expensive and possibly most failed trial in international justice. The so-called “Butare trial” that ended less than a year ago was full of mistakes, dysfunctions and inadequate behaviour at the Internatio [...]
15 September 2016
by AFP
ICC prosecutors put new focus on ecological harm, land grabs
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court Thursday said they would boost their focus on environmental destruction and illegal land grabs as possible crimes against humanity, in what may prove a warning to big business. In a [...]