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.
Pentagon hospital attack report falls short
9 May 2016
by Human Rights Watch, John Sifton
The Pentagon on Friday released the findings of its inquiry into the October 3, 2015, air attack on a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. If the report was meant to demonstra [...]
9 May 2016
by François Sergent
Even war has rules – a complex set of judicial constraints born from the ideas of Saint Augustin and Saint Thomas on what constitutes a “just war”, and enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, of which the International Committee of t [...]
Rwanda's 100-day bloodbath, a modern genocide
8 May 2016
by AFP
At least 800,000 people were slaughtered in a 100-day orgy of violence instigated by the extremist Hutu regime in power in Rwanda in 1994. The bloodbath was unleashed after Rwanda's President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when hi [...]
Rwandan genocide survivors hope for justice from Paris trial
8 May 2016
by AFP
Twenty-two years after the Rwandan genocide, Jean-Damascene Rutagungira still cannot bear the sight of the Catholic church in the eastern village of Kabarondo, where his family was massacred before his eyes. Sitting in front of hi [...]
6 May 2016
by Ben Parker, IRIN
MSF pulls out of World Humanitarian Summit
The UN expects 6,000 people at a historic humanitarian conference in Istanbul later this month. But one prominent participant has dropped out. The international medical organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors Withou [...]
5 May 2016
by Pierre Hazan
What 50 War Criminals Have to Say about International Justice
Do perpetrators of genocide and war crimes feel guilty? How do they see international justice? Have trials and tough sanctions changed their perspective, or do they dream of vengeance? Up to now, answers to such questions have bee [...]
4 May 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
World Humanitarian Summit Must Act on Rules of War, says ICRC International Law and Policy Director
Here we publish an interview with Helen Durham, International Law and Policy Director at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a Swiss-based humanitarian organization which serves as the guardian of the Geneva Conv [...]
4 May 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Senegal: Hissène Habré Verdict Scheduled May 30
Updated Questions and Answers on Trial of Ex-Chad Dictator Human Rights Watch on May 3, 2016, issued an updated question-and-answer document about the trial in Senegal of the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré. A verdict is sch [...]
3 May 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas
Should war wrimes investigations be privatized?
International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations have often failed owing to poor strategy and lack of State cooperation. This has provoked a debate on what should be done. Should international crimes investigations be privatized?
3 May 2016
by Margaux Benn
Armed with radios, C.Africa villages combat LRA rebels
"Charlie Six, India One here... we're going to begin the check-in," says radio operator Joanick from his small studio in Obo, calling out to the surrounding villages in southeast Central African Republic. It's a daily meeting at d [...]
2 May 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
On World Press Freedom Day, Tunisian Media Struggling with New Freedoms
Olfa Belhassine is a journalist for newspaper La Presse in Tunisia and correspondent for JusticeInfo in that country. To mark World Press Freedom Day this May 3, we publish her account of Tunisia’s transition from zero press freed [...]
2 May 2016
by AFP
Swiss mull extradition for Kosovan war crimes suspects: report
Swiss authorities have arrested two Kosovans wanted by Serbia for suspected war crimes, but the question of where to extradite them to is stirring up diplomatic tensions, Swiss media said Monday. The men, whose names were not give [...]
2 May 2016
by AFP
Confronting darkness in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge stronghold
Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Camb [...]
2 May 2016
by François Sergent
The week in review: from Colombia to Burundi
Transitional justice does not always go smoothly with orderly procedures, exemplary trials and fair judgments. This is illustrated in Colombia, where, despite an agreement in principle between FARC rebels and the government signed [...]
1 May 2016
by AFP
Refugees spur German justice to tackle Syrian war crimes
Germany will Tuesday start its first war crimes trial over atrocities in Syria, as a mass refugee influx brings not only witnesses and victims but also suspects into the country. Aria L., a 21-year-old German national and suspecte [...]
29 April 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Sarajevo Documentary Shows Culture as an Act of Resistance
In a packed room, young women in swimsuits parade for the Miss Sarajevo crown, as bombs rain down outside. Then, still with their radiant smiles, they hold up a banner saying “Don’t leave us to be killed” and throw flowers to the [...]
28 April 2016
by Tom Rollins
Seeking justice for Syrian war criminals in the EU
Mohamed Abdullah probably arrived in Europe some time last year. In a picture purportedly uploaded to his Facebook page, which has since been deleted, the 31-year-old Syrian stands smiling in front of a car park that is traceable [...]
28 April 2016
by Jared Ferrie
How failure of a peace deal could boost Islamist extremism in Philippines
Captain Jimmy Amolay looked across the river at the charred wreckage of a backhoe sitting in shallow, muddy water. Islamist militants blew up the tractor even though it was being used to dredge the river to build a road and preven [...]