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.
Week in Review: International vs. local justice and the Day of the Disappeared
5 September 2016
by François Sergent
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)
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
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 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 [...]
29 August 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The Disappeared and the Struggle of Justice in Nepal
August 30th marks the International Day of the Disappeared, an opportunity for the world to remember those missing and disappeared during conflict. In Nepal there is little discussion about the more than 1,500 Nepalese who disappe [...]
26 August 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
“Impunity is condition for political survival” in the CAR, says expert
Didier Niewiadowski is a French jurist and former advisor at the French embassy in Bangui (2008-2012). In an interview with JusticeInfo last June, he urged the new president of the Central African Republic Faustin Archange Touadér [...]
26 August 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Colombia: Peace Pact a Key Opportunity to Curb Abuses
(Washington, DC, August 25, 2016) – The agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas on August 24, 2016, to end their 52-year conflict is an unprecedented opportunity [...]
25 August 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC cuts Timbuktu mausoleum trial short
The International Criminal Court (ICC) wrapped up in three days the trial of Malian former Jihadist Ahmed Al Faqi Al Mahdi, who faces one charge of war crimes for destruction of historic and religious buildings in Timbuktu in June [...]
25 August 2016
by Hector Velasco
Colombia announces historic peace agreement
Colombia's government and FARC rebels announced Wednesday that they have reached a historic peace deal to end their half-century civil war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. After nearly four years of negotiations in Cuba, [...]
24 August 2016
by Pierre Hazan
100 Years after Balfour Declaration, Palestinians Threaten to Sue
Can the law correct the colonial past? That is the hope of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, who plans to sue Britain in an international court for the Balfour Declaration nearly a century ago which gave a “na [...]
24 August 2016
by Geeta Koska
Tunisia: the price of economic reconciliation in the transitional justice process.
In recent years the involvement of economic elites and business in corruption has come under increasing scrutiny. In response, transitional justice has also come under pressure to address the link between the private sector, corru [...]
23 August 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Malian Jihadist who destroyed holy sites tells his story
Malian former Jihadist Ahmed Al Mahdi pleaded guilty on Monday as his trial opened at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He faces a single war crimes charge for the destruction of nine mausoleums and part of the Sidi Yahia mo [...]