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.
Life Under Threat for a Young Tunisian Homosexual
28 July 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
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
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
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
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 [...]
18 July 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana in Geneva
CAR Judicial System Needs Complete Overhaul, Says Expert
Restoring a reliable, trustworthy justice system in the Central African Republic (CAR) involves overcoming many challenges. That was the unanimous conclusion of a June 28 meeting at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva with parti [...]
18 July 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Remembering Srebrenica, and the ICC versus Bashir
On July 11, the world remembered the massacre committed 21 years ago in Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This massacre, which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has categorized as genocide, is [...]
15 July 2016
by Human Rights Watch, Tunis
Tunisia: Amnesty Bill Would Set Back Transition, says HRW
A proposed “economic reconciliation” law will provide amnesty for public officials and state employees for acts related to financial corruption and misuse of public funds. The law would sabotage the mechanism Tunisia already put i [...]
14 July 2016
by Pierre Hazan, Sarajevo
Syria, Bosnia and Chechnya: The Challenge of Documenting War
How should the Syrian war be documented as the number of dead continues to rise? How should the stories of the Bosnian and Chechen conflicts in the 1990s be told? Invited by the WARM festival, journalists, activists and researcher [...]
13 July 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Uganda and Djibouti Referred to the UN for Non-Cooperation on Bashir Arrest: An Appeal in Vain by the ICC?
Can the International Criminal Court (ICC) expect action this time from the United Nations? The Hague–based permanent court has referred Uganda and Dijbouti to the UN Security Council for refusal to execute the arrest warrants ag [...]
10 July 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Bosnia Makes Efforts to Tackle Post-War Trauma
The figures are staggering: according to the Bosnian authorities, 450,000 people are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 1.4 million have shown at least one symptom of PTSD, out of a population of only four mi [...]
6 July 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
“Missing Persons Are More Than A Humanitarian Issue”
The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) was marking its 20th anniversary on July 7 in The Hague, where it recently set up offices. The Commission, established in 1996 on an initiative from President Bill Clinton af [...]
4 July 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana
Eritrea Should Be Subject to International investigation, Says UN Commission
A Resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on July 1 calls for an African investigation, supported by the international community, into serious crimes in Eritrea. Some of these crimes could qualify as crimes against [...]
4 July 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Bosnian Serbs Jailed, France Accused, and Calls for Justice in Eritrea
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ended the first half of the year with an important judgment. Before packing their bags for the summer holidays, the ICTY appeals judges on June 30 confirmed the [...]
2 July 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Sri Lanka Court Needs International Judges For Credibility, Say Experts
In October, the new Sri Lankan government of President Maithripala Sirisena co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council Resolution calling for a wide range of transitional justice mechanisms after 26 years of armed conflict with the Ta [...]
2 July 2016
by Vony Rambolamanana
Iraqi Wins UN Sanctions Case Against Switzerland
Khalaf M. Al-Dulimi, the suspected finance boss of Iraqi secret services under Saddam Hussein, has won an important case against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On June 21, the court confirmed a 2013 de [...]