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.
ICC verdict may help end cruelty of rape in war zones
22 March 2016
by AFP
Rights activists Tuesday hailed a landmark war crimes verdict that found former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty for rampant sexual abuses by his troops, saying it could help stop rape as a weapon of war. A declar [...]
22 March 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Côte d’Ivoire has not yet delivered justice for victims of grave crimes by both sides in the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. President Alassane Ouattara and his new jus [...]
22 March 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Halim Meddeb is a lawyer committed to fighting human rights violations. He also works as legal advisor at the Tunis office of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT). The OMCT, Council of Europe, UNDP and the Office of the U [...]
22 March 2016
by AFP
'Mission accomplished' for UN war crimes court?
Srebrenica, Vukovar, Sarajevo: towns and cities indelibly scarred by a painful and shameful history and seared forever into Europe's collective conscience. For 23 years, their names and the memories of tens of thousands of victims [...]
22 March 2016
by AFP
Parents of Sarajevo siege victims nervously await Karadzic ruling
Twenty years after the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, in which 1,500 children were killed, the young victims' parents anxiously await a ruling on the man they hold responsible. Among the range of atrocities for which wartime Bosnian [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
Jean-Pierre Bemba: from wealthy DR Congo vice president to war criminal
Former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was a towering figure in business and politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo until a 2006 electoral defeat opened the way to a guilty verdict at a war crimes court. Judges at the Interna [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
ICC finds Bemba guilty of war crimes in CAR
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba was Monday found guilty of a ruthless campaign of widespread rapes and killings by his private army in the Central African Republic, in a landmark war crimes verdict. It is the fir [...]
21 March 2016
by Nuba Reports
President al-Bashir of Sudan clocked in thousands of miles across the world, despite being a wanted war criminal
Over seven years ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for al-Bashir’s arrest for his role in the Darfur genocide, accusing him of overseeing murder, extermination, forcible transfer, rape, and torture, as we [...]
21 March 2016
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Impunity in the Great Lakes, Truth and Justice in Mali and Germany
The Great Lakes region of Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, was at the heart of transitional justice developments this week. On Sunday, genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was tr [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic: Many-faced Serb accused of Bosnian war horrors
Psychiatrist, poet, president, alleged war criminal -- even New Age healer. Radovan Karadzic has certainly had a varied life. And as he prepares to hear his fate in The Hague this week, one thing is clear about the bouffant-haired [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic faces day of reckoning at UN war crimes court
Once-feared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will Thursday stand before UN war crimes judges to learn if, 20 years on, they find him guilty of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. The notorious political leader f [...]
20 March 2016
by AFP
Key genocide suspect transferred to Rwanda for prosecution
Top level Rwandan genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was flown from Kinshasa to Kigali on Sunday to face trial three months after his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 53-year old former mayor is to be tried on nine [...]
18 March 2016
by AFP
DR Congo ex-leader faces landmark ICC war crimes verdict
The International Criminal Court on Monday delivers its verdict against former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, blamed for a campaign of rapes and killings by his private army in the Central African Republic. It is the [...]
16 March 2016
by Bruno Djito Segbedji, Bamako correspondent
"Justice Must be for Everyone", Says Mali Truth Commission Vice-President
Jurist Nina Oualet Intallou from Kidal in northern Mali is First Vice-President of the country’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. She is the daughter of a gendarme crushed to death in 1992 by a Malian army tank and bu [...]
16 March 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo
Burundi Truth Commission “a Diversionary Tactic”, say Critics
In Burundi, the mandate and composition of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was already being criticized by the opposition and civil society. The decision to launch the Commission’s work at the beginning of March has [...]
15 March 2016
by AFP
S.Africa's conduct 'disgraceful' in Bashir case, court says
The South African appeal court Tuesday accused the government of "disgraceful conduct" in allowing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to leave the country despite an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bashi [...]