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.
Is “ecocide” the new crime against humanity?
7 November 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
On December 7, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 was 45,000 km from Earth. The three astronauts had the sun behind them and were heading for the Moon, where they were going to land. It was then they took the first photo of our planet. E [...]
7 November 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Africa remained at the centre of transitional justice news this week. November 1 marked the departure of French forces from the Central African Republic, three years after the start of their mission to protect civilians. But the C [...]
6 November 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
There will be no “blood diamonds” trial of Michel Desaedeleer, the first person to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in blood diamond trading that fuelled civil war and serious huma [...]
4 November 2016
by Oliver Slow
The government in Myanmar is coming under pressure from human rights groups to open northern Rakhine State to independent observers so they can investigate claims of abuses by the security forces. HUMAN RIGHTS groups have urged th [...]
4 November 2016
by Sarah Rayzl Lansky
Africa Speaks Out Against ICC Withdrawal
The recent decisions by South Africa, Burundi, and Gambia to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) are generating wide attention and speculation about a mass exodus from the court by African countries. But think it’s clear [...]
3 November 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Is Tunisia ready to listen to victims?
After several postponements, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, which was officially set up on June 9, 2014, will finally hold its first public hearings of victims this November 18. This key moment in the Tunisian transitiona [...]
3 November 2016
by L. Muthoni Wanyeki
Building an alternative to the ICC’s slippery slope
The International Criminal Court was already on a slippery slope long before last month’s decision by three African countries to withdraw. It will be a long, hard slog, but it is imperative to build an alternative approach to the [...]
3 November 2016
by Justice Info
Transitional justice explained (infographic)
Because "transitional justice" is a term that is not well known by the general public, even though it is at the heart of JusticeInfo.net's concerns, we felt it was necessary to present its main features in a simplified and graphic [...]
2 November 2016
by AFP
I.Coast constitutional referendum passes, opponents cry foul
An opposition-boycotted referendum to change Ivory Coast's constitution has easily passed, electoral officials said Tuesday, but opponents swiftly dismissed the vote as fraudulent. President Alassane Ouattara said the changes were [...]
1 November 2016
by Julia Crawford, Justice Info
What prospects for peace in Colombia after the referendum?
The world was expecting an end to half a century of conflict in Colombia, but on October 2 the Colombian people voted “no” to a peace accord signed on September 26 by President Juan Manual Santos and the leader of the Marxist Arme [...]
31 October 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: New African blow to the ICC, and Tunisia prepares for victim hearings
The Gambia may be a small West African country that rarely hits the headlines, but this week’s announcement that it is pulling out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirms the malaise between the African continent and th [...]
27 October 2016
by AFP
From IS slaves to global voices for Yazidis
Two Yazidi women who survived a nightmare ordeal of kidnapping, rape and slavery at the hands of Islamic State jihadists won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on Thursday.Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji [...]
27 October 2016
by AFP
Ivory Coast to vote on divisive constitution
Ivory Coast heads to the polls Sunday for a referendum on a new constitution their president insists will heal a nation beset by violent turmoil, but which the opposition says is dangerously anti-democratic. Given that President A [...]
26 October 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net editorial advisor
Could ICC withdrawal of South Africa and others spell more violence in Africa?
How things have changed! It was an African country, Senegal, that was the first in the world to ratify on February 2, 1999, the statutes of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Driven by civil society, some 30 other African cou [...]
26 October 2016
by Frédéric Burnand
Geneva Twitter bot flags up dictators’ planes
An open-source computer programme identifies planes flying into Geneva airport which belong to authoritarian regimes and raises the alert via Twitter. The creators of the GVA Dictator Alert now want to install the device in other [...]
26 October 2016
by AFP
Gambia becomes latest African nation to quit ICC
The Gambia has become the latest African nation to announce its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing the war crimes tribunal of "persecuting" Africans. The shock move announced late Tuesday was condemned by r [...]
26 October 2016
by AFP
Gambia to withdraw from International Criminal Court
Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing the Hague-based tribunal of the "persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans". The announcement late Tuesday comes after [...]
25 October 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Arusha, Tanzania
African lawyers back the ICC
A group of African personalities, including former key players in international criminal justice, have called on Burundi and South Africa to reconsider their decisions to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Meetin [...]
24 October 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Will South Africa’s move to quit ICC spark "Afrexit"?
South Africa has asked the United Nations to enact its withdrawal from the treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This came just days after Burundi’s parliament voted to withdraw from the Court. Battling against a juris [...]