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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.

Seeking justice for Syrian war criminals in the EU
28 April 2016 by Tom Rollins
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 [...]
How failure of a peace deal could boost Islamist extremism in Philippines
28 April 2016 by Jared Ferrie
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 [...]
Opinion : Unearthing Indonesia’s 1965-66 Massacre Victims
28 April 2016 by Phelim Kine
Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo wants to know where the bodies are buried. Literally. On April 25, Jokowi instructed his security minister, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, to start documenting the location of mass graves of th [...]
Non-State Groups are Biggest New Threat to Rules of War, Conference Told
27 April 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
 "We are witnessing the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime,” says the website of the first World Humanitarian Summit, to be held in Istanbul in May. And it proclaims that “the World Humanitarian Summit is our chance to e [...]
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27 April 2016 by Patricia Gossman
Barring Afghan War Crimes Suspects From the US, says HRW As a matter of government policy, the US bars entry to non-US citizens responsible for “war crimes, crimes against humanity or other serious violations of human rights,” according to a 2011 Presidential Proclamation. However, the [...]
26 April 2016 by Christine Renaudat, Bogota correspondent
Replacing Arms with Ideas in Colombia Colombian political scientist Ariel Avila is a specialist on the country’s guerrilla movement. He talked to JusticeInfo about the last hurdles to overcome before a peace accord can be signed to end 50 years of civil war. At the he [...]
26 April 2016 by Juan Pablo Pérez-León Acevedo
Justice for forced sterilization victims: Pending points in Peru’s transitional justice agenda Justice and redress for alleged victims of forced sterilization have long been prorogued  on Peru’s transitional justice agenda. The Ombudsman (2002) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2003) reported that this practice w [...]
26 April 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Current Burundi Context “Not Conducive to Truth Commission”, says ex-President Burundi’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, launched in March by President Pierre Nkurunziza, is seeking 34 million dollars to fund its activities. But former President and Senator for life Sylvestre Ntibantunganya says the pri [...]
25 April 2016 by AFP
A year of crisis in Burundi Burundi has suffered a year of bloody crisis, born of President Pierre Nkurunziza's divisive bid for a third term, which he secured last July. The opposition maintains that Nkurunziza's move was unconstitutional and violated a pea [...]
25 April 2016 by Géraldine Mattioli-Zeltner
Opening of ICC Preliminary Examination in Burundi, "a wake-up call" according to HRW   “The announcement that the International Criminal Court prosecutor is opening a preliminary examination of the situation in Burundi should be a wake-up call that the era of impunity for grave human rights violations in Burundi i [...]
25 April 2016 by AFP
War crimes court opens probe into Burundi as top general is killed A top Tutsi general was gunned down in Burundi on Monday, the latest bloodshed in a year of violent political turmoil that has now prompted a preliminary probe by international prosecutors into a litany of atrocities.A wave of unr [...]
24 April 2016 by Franck Petit, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: Ivorian ex-Presidential Couple on Trial The highlight of the week in transitional justice was the confirmation that former Ivorian First Lady Simone Gbagbo is to stand trial from April 21 for “crimes against humanity” committed in the post-election violence of 2010-2011 [...]
24 April 2016 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
An “Arab Winter” for Women after the “Arab Spring”? Arab women had hoped revolutions in their countries would bring them greater freedom. But as they face economic hardship, forced exile, sexual violence, early marriage and human trafficking, their situation has regressed in the fi [...]
22 April 2016 by Wilane Paté, Abidjan correspondent
Ivorian Ex-First Lady to be Tried for Crimes against Humanity Côte d’Ivoire’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the last appeal of former First Lady Simone Gbagbo, opening the way for her to be tried for crimes against humanity. The trial is expected to start in Abidjan in May. Simone Gbagb [...]
21 April 2016 by AFP
Ivory Coast former first lady loses final appeal against trial Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo is set to go on trial on charges of crimes against humanity after the country's supreme court on Thursday rejected the latest appeal by her lawyers. "The court... has decided to reject [...]
21 April 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Ugandan LRA Rebels Face Counterattack, Defections and Trials Inhabitants of Rafaï in the eastern Central African Republic often spend the night in the bush to escape attacks by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels from Uganda. But now they have had enough, and some people are starting to fig [...]
19 April 2016 by Habibou Bangré, correspondent in Kinshasa
Congo-Brazzaville: NGOs call for International Mediation in Post-Election Crisis As France called Tuesday for light to be shed on the Republic of Congo situation, the Congolese section of “Tournons la page” (Turn the Page), which has been working since 2014 for democracy in Africa, is calling for international [...]
18 April 2016 by Olfa Belhassine and Hedia Baraket
A Perspective on Tunisia’s New Words and Civil Society We publish here extracts from a book co-authored by Olfa Belhassine, our correspondent in Tunisia, and journalist Hedia Baraket. “The New Words that make Tunisia” examines a linguistic “Big Bang” that started with the first emotio [...]
18 April 2016 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Editorial Advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Mixed Legacy for South Africa Truth Commission Twenty Years On Twenty years ago South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) started work to shed light on crimes committed under apartheid. Hundreds of victims and perpetrators came to testify voluntarily. This TRC is held up as an [...]