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.
Risk of crimes against humanity in Burundi: UN probe
19 September 2016
by AFP
Burundi's government is behind systematic human rights violations, including executions and torture, UN investigators said Tuesday, warning of possible crimes against humanity and the looming risk of "genocide". "Gross human right [...]
16 September 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
With 300,000 dead in five years, millions of displaced and refugees, the war in Syria seems the ultimate symbol of human rights violations, the place most foreign to humanitarian law. But Swiss NGO Geneva Call refuses to give up, [...]
15 September 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
It was the longest, most expensive and possibly most failed trial in international justice. The so-called “Butare trial” that ended less than a year ago was full of mistakes, dysfunctions and inadequate behaviour at the Internatio [...]
15 September 2016
by AFP
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court Thursday said they would boost their focus on environmental destruction and illegal land grabs as possible crimes against humanity, in what may prove a warning to big business. In a [...]
14 September 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Congolese warlord on hunger strike in ICC jail
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 [...]
14 September 2016
by Frédéric Burnand, swissinfo (Translated from French by Sophie Douez)
Is the age of liberal democracy coming to an end?
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 [...]
12 September 2016
by AFP
South Sudan officials get rich from war crimes
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 [...]
12 September 2016
by Dr. Tomasz Lachowski
"We are very far from reconciliation" in the Western Balkans
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 [...]
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 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 [...]