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.
eyeWitness: When a smartphone could hold war criminals accountable
13 December 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
EyeWitness won the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Prize for Innovation in Global Security last month in Geneva. eyeWitness provides human rights defenders, journalists, and ordinary citizens with a mobile app to capture [...]
12 December 2016
by Gaël Cogné in Ouagadougou
December 13 marks 18 years since the assassination of journalist Norbert Zongo in Burkina Faso. Civil society organizations are organizing commemorations. But the Zongo family is not alone in demanding justice. Those close to for [...]
12 December 2016
by Dr Thomas Obel Hansen, Lecturer of Law, Transitional Justice Institute/ Ulster University Law School, Belfast, UK.
Whereas a Kenyan withdrawal from the ICC is a real possibility, Nairobi may be tempted to instead use the threat of a withdrawal to push its agenda on the ICC. Since Burundi announced in October that it had decided to withdraw fr [...]
12 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Transitional justice, the focus of our website, is still a little understood concept, according to Kora Andrieu, an expert in the field. “The problem with transitional justice, he says, is that the term can be taken to mean that i [...]
9 December 2016
by Pierre Hazan
African “withdrawals” from the ICC produce a new twist…
At the end of October, three African countries announced with fanfare that they were leaving the International Criminal Court (ICC). They slammed it for lack of legitimacy, unjustified attacks against Africans and neo-colonialism. [...]
8 December 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, Geneva
“The UN Security Council should do more to protect the population of South Sudan.”
The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng has made various worrying statements this month of November. A few days ago, he has warned about the ethnic violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and reminded [...]
7 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ugandan child soldier turned "war criminal" on trial at ICC
The trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier turned commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), started at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday December 6. Ongwen is accused of crimes against h [...]
7 December 2016
by AFP
UN prosecutors urge life term for 'Butcher of Bosnia'
Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to jail Ratko Mladic for life, accusing the former Serb commander of a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Serbia in the 1990s Balkans wars. "It would be... an insult [...]
6 December 2016
by Aude Marcovitch, correspondent in Jerusalem
Israel moves to “legalize” all West Bank settlements
Next to Route 60, a road that crosses the length of the West Bank, to the northeast of Ramallah lies the Israeli settlement of Ofra. If you go through this place peopled by some 3,000 inhabitants, a ribbon of tarmac climbs up a ne [...]
6 December 2016
by Human Rights Watch
French Court Confirms Genocide Conviction of Former Rwandan Intelligence Chief
A French court on Saturday confirmed the 25-year prison sentence of Pascal Simbikangwa for genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. Simbikangwa was a former intelligence chief in Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 geno [...]
6 December 2016
by Samuel Okiror
Kony’s killers – are child soldiers accountable when they become men?
The trial of Dominic Ongwen, a senior member of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, opens on Tuesday before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Many horrors will be recounted, but the case also throws up deep ethical [...]
6 December 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : NGOs became neo-liberal business
On December 10th the World will celebrate universal human rights day. The occasion will be recognized in Nepal, but unfortunately democratization and human rights have become more buzzword than practice. The policies that have bee [...]
5 December 2016
by Franck Petit
French court confirms Rwandan’s 25-year sentence for genocide
A French court on Saturday confirmed a 25-year prison sentence on Pascal Simbikangwa, the first Rwandan to be tried for genocide in France. Simbikangwa, 57, has been detained in Fresnes, near Paris, since 2009. He was found guilty [...]
5 December 2016
by Human Rights Watch
ICC: First Lord’s Resistance Army Trial Begins
(Brussels) – The opening of the International Criminal Court trial of a Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander is an important new chapter in holding the rebel group accountable for its brutal crimes in northern Uganda, Human Righ [...]
5 December 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: A difficult path to truth and remembrance
This week showed some of the different faces of transitional justice. In Colombia, a new peace accord was finally ratified, whilst Tunisia continued public hearings of former regime victims, and debate continued in Rwanda over the [...]
5 December 2016
by Samantha Lakin (M.A.)
Nuanced Memory in Rwanda and Uganda : Responsibilities of justice practitioners
The international community has established memorialization as a key transitional justice mechanism that holds symbolic value for societies recovering from conflict. As such, memorial efforts can help victims feel a sense of valid [...]
4 December 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICTY to hear closing arguments in Mladic case
The trial of former Bosnian Serb military boss Ratko Mladic is coming to an end before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Prosecutor’s closing arguments are due to start on Monday December 5, [...]
30 November 2016
by Marcela Aguila Rubín
‘Death opens the eyes of the living’
Secret mass graves in Mexico, daily bombings and a mounting death toll in Syria, 30,000 “disappeared” people in Argentina. What does the fight for truth and justice mean in terrible contexts like these where impunity persists? A S [...]
30 November 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Mali: ‘Red Berets’ Trial Marks Progress in Tackling Impunity
(Dakar) – The trial of the leader of the 2012 coup in Mali, Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and 17 co-defendants, including other members of the Malian army, is set to begin on November 30, 2016, in the southern Malian town of Sikasso. T [...]