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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.

Congolese warlord on hunger strike in ICC jail
14 September 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Congolese ex-militiaman Bosco Ntaganda, on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) since September 2015, has gone on hunger strike to protest a Court decision restricting his visitors. Ntaganda, who was second-in-command o [...]
Is the age of liberal democracy coming to an end?
14 September 2016 by Frédéric Burnand, swissinfo (Translated from French by Sophie Douez)
As the rise of populist anti-establishment parties in western democracies – including in Switzerland – continues unabated, the events of 2016 have only served to push liberal democracies further into crisis. After the waves of dem [...]
South Sudan officials get rich from war crimes
12 September 2016 by AFP
South Sudan's devastating civil war has enriched senior officials directing the conflict, including the president and his main rival, a report charged Monday. "Top officials ultimately responsible for mass atrocities in South Suda [...]
"We are very far from reconciliation" in the Western Balkans
12 September 2016 by Dr. Tomasz Lachowski
Here we publish a dialogue between Serbian historian Marijana Toma and  Tomasz Lachowski, journalist and legal researcher at the University of Lodz in Poland. Toma is  a former Deputy Executive Director at Humanitarian Law Center [...]
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12 September 2016 by François Sergent
Week in Review: Israel and the ICC, Sexual Violence and the LRA  The International Criminal Court (ICC), which is regularly criticized for focusing too much on Africa, announced this week that one of its investigation teams is to go to Israel for the first time.The conditions, mandate and even [...]
9 September 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
ICC Prosecutor puts sexual crimes at heart of Ongwen trial Crimes of sexual violence will be a big focus in the upcoming trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen before the International Criminal Court (ICC), although they were not part of the initial case. Th [...]
8 September 2016 by Aude Marcovitch, correspondent in Tel Aviv
Israel forced to cooperate with the International Criminal Court A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to visit Israel soon, at the request of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. This is a first in relations between Israel – which is not an ICC member State – and the Court. But [...]
7 September 2016 by André Guichaoua
Burundi-Rwanda: Inter-linked rivals at the heart of the “Great Lakes Region” “There has never been any boundless kingdom. Burundi frequently fought various invasions from surrounding kingdoms.”  At the end of two particularly bloody and dramatic civil wars, in 1994 for Rwanda and in 2005 for Burundi, both [...]
6 September 2016 by Vony Rambolamanana
More pressure on Lord’s Resistance Army as US targets Kony sons with sanctions On August 23, the US Treasury Department issued a press release announcing sanctions against Ali and Salim Kony, sons of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, who has been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC [...]
6 September 2016 by AFP
Santos confident Colombians will say 'yes' to peace Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says he is certain his government's peace deal with FARC rebels will be approved in an October 2 referendum because "an imperfect peace is always preferable to a perfect war." "The 'no' won' [...]
5 September 2016 by François Sergent
Week in Review: International vs. local justice and the Day of the Disappeared For the many critics of transitional justice, holding trials far from where the crimes were committed is a frequent subject of reproach. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, is the epitome of this just [...]
5 September 2016 by Emma Supple (IRIN contributor) and Ben Parker (Head of Enterprise Projects)
UN paying blacklisted diamond company in Central African Republic The UN has paid more than half a million dollars to a company on its own sanctions list for allegedly fueling the conflict in Central African Republic through the sale of ‘blood diamonds’, an IRIN investigation reveals. The Bureau [...]
5 September 2016 by Julia Brooks, Legal Research Associate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
The Gendering of Genocide: ISIS’s Crimes Against the Yazidis  This post originally appeared on the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA) blog, a program of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. ISIS is committing genocide and other international crimes against the Yazidi mi [...]
2 September 2016 by AFP
Africa's disputed elections Clashes in Gabon have left five people dead since incumbent Ali Bongo was declared the winner of a disputed presidential vote. Bongo's victory over challenger Jean Ping by a razor-thin margin of just under 6,000 votes in a weekend [...]
2 September 2016 by Indu Nepal
Nepal’s Botched Truth and Reconciliation Process In June 2005, a bus carrying 150 people left Madi, a village on the edge of the Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal, and headed toward Narayangadh. Eight kilometers into the journey, Krishna Adhikari hailed and boarded the bus [...]
1 September 2016 by AFP
ICC welcomes Colombia peace deal, urges prosecutions The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Thursday welcomed Colombia's peace deal with FARC rebels, but called for "genuine" prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes. "The peace agreement ack [...]
1 September 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza
FIDH urges international justice for Burundi and South Sudan Burundi and South Sudan were a central focus of discussions at the 39th World Congress of the International League for Human Rights (FIDH), which took place from August 23 to 27 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the “urgent res [...]
1 September 2016 by Vony Rambolamanana
Justice for sexual violence in Congo advancing painfully, says NGO coordinator Abuses against civilians happen all too often in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following a massacre in Beni on the night of August 13-14 this year that left some 50 civilians dead, six men of Ugandan, Congolese and T [...]
29 August 2016 by François Sergent
The week in review : Malian jihadist’s trial cut short, disillusion in the CAR and hope for Colombia The week in transitional justice was marked by the trial before the International Criminal Court of Malian jihadist Ahmed Al Faqi Al Mahdi, accused of having destroyed nine mausoleums in Timbuktu, the “city of 333 saints”. For the [...]