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.
South Sudan: Killings, Rapes, Looting in Juba
15 August 2016
by Human Rights Watch
(Nairobi) – Soldiers killed and raped civilians and extensively looted civilian property, including humanitarian goods, during and after clashes between government and opposition forces in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, in July, 201 [...]
15 August 2016
by François Sergent
It was a calm week in transitional justice, but JusticeInfo.net continued to follow the chaotic transition in Tunisia with a look at corruption. In an interview with JusticeInfo, anti-corruption magistrate Ahmed Souab explains t [...]
UN experts warn of "genocidal rhetoric" in Burundi
12 August 2016
by AFP
A United Nations watchdog on Friday urged Burundi to immediately address a long line of abuses, including hundreds of extrajudicial killings and widespread torture and sexual abuse, with disturbing ethnic undertones. The UN Commit [...]
9 August 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
World must help save South Sudan, says expert
In South Sudan, a fragile peace deal signed in August 2015 looks in doubt as fighting again erupted in Juba this July and Vice-President Riek Machar fled the capital. Many civilians have not only died but also been the target of s [...]
8 August 2016
by Jamie Rowen
Rethinking a Truth Commission in Colombia
For nearly six decades, the Colombian government has struggled to quell the country’s armed conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, and much of the countryside ungovernable. In June 2015, the Colombi [...]
8 August 2016
by François Sergent and Julia Crawford
Week in Review: South Sudan, Central African Republic and “Victimized Perpetrators”
This week provided some notable developments in transitional justice, despite judicial and other vacations. Allegations of widespread human rights abuses in South Sudan are not new, and the presence of a 12,000-strong UN missio [...]
4 August 2016
by Colonel Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa
The Congolese experience with the complementary role of the ICC
After more than a decade of operation, it seems that the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is still unknown to many. Indeed, while its creation gave rise to great expectations, today a number of lingering questions ha [...]
3 August 2016
by Cath Collins
New Peruvian law offers hope to relatives of the disappeared
The majestic yet forbidding landscape of the Peruvian highlands hides grim secrets. The country’s Ayacucho region was the cradle of Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path, which waged a total and ultimately futile war against the Per [...]
3 August 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Dispatches: Why is Burundi Ducking Questions About Torture?
In response to the human rights crisis in Burundi, the UN Committee Against Torture held a special session last week to review allegations of torture and other abuses in the country. But the Burundian government shocked everyone i [...]
31 July 2016
by Maxime Domegni, correspondent in Lomé
Togo Still Waiting for Democratic Transition
Togo seems as far as ever from deep political reform, as signalled at a workshop of the High Commission for Reconciliation and National Unity during the week of July 11 to 15. This body was set up two years ago and is supposed to [...]
28 July 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Life Under Threat for a Young Tunisian Homosexual
Ahmed Ben Amor, 20, whose touching story JusticeInfo reported in February 2016, made an attempt at suicide on July 9. Homophobic threats had become too much for this brilliant young man, who was until two years ago studying at the [...]
26 July 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
After the North, Violence Hits Central Mali
Mali is struggling to implement the peace and reconciliation accord reached a year ago to restore peace and security particularly in the north of the country. And as if that were not enough, the central region, long spared from th [...]
25 July 2016
by Habibou Bangré, correspondent in Kinshasa
UN List of Suspected Congolese Civil War Criminals to Stay Secret
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights declared in Kinshasa on Thursday that his office’s data base on suspected perpetrators of serious crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1993 to 2003 will remain s [...]
25 July 2016
by François Sergent
Week in Review: AU Silence on the ICC, and Debate on International Tribunals
The transitional justice week was marked by the African Union (AU) summit in Kigali, which had been expected to confirm the war between the continent and the International Criminal Court (ICC). But, as our correspondent Emmanuel S [...]
22 July 2016
by Dr Luke Moffett Director of the Human Rights Centre Queen's University Belfast
Reparations for victimised perpetrators
Reparations are often touted as victim focused measures of redressing transitional justice and human rights. However, identifying which victims are eligible for reparations goes to heart of debates about the legitimacy of the vio [...]
21 July 2016
by Human Rights Watch
World Bank: Human Rights All But Absent in New Policy
(Washington, DC, July 21, 2016) – The World Bank has refused to acknowledge its human rights obligations in its new policy framework, Human Rights Watch said today. The bank’s third, and most likely final, draft of its new environ [...]
20 July 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor, in N’Djamena
Hissène Habré: From Head of State to Convicted Rapist
In a society as conservative as Chad’s, taboos were too strong. So, for 25 years, women had remained silent. “There was too much shame and fear,” says Kaltouma Defallah. In her modest house in N’Djamena, a fan tries to cool the ro [...]