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.
Ivorian militia leader is 'like Martin Luther King' ICC told
2 February 2016
by AFP
Former Ivorian youth militia leader Charles Ble Goude was a "man of peace," in the same mould as US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and tried to stop post-polls turmoil in 2010, his lawyer said Tuesday. "Charles Ble Goude [...]
2 February 2016
by Patrick Vinck and Phuong N. Pham, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
This January 28th, Ivorian ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minister and militia leader Charles Blé Goudé faced judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on the first day of their trial. Bot [...]
1 February 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Observers all agree that fighting impunity will be one of the main challenges facing the next government of the Central African Republic (CAR). The governing team that emerges from the current election process can only restore hop [...]
1 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
The past week was marked by the start of trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé before the International Criminal Court. This represents the most important trial so far for [...]
1 February 2016
by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, Tomasz Lachowski
Transitional justice in post-USSR region : stuck on the bridge over the Inguri River in Abkhazia
From Sukhumi, Abkhazia “Geneva peace talks are not leading to any conclusions. It is just a false assumption that we can live -again- alongside Georgians. It cannot come true” – Ruslan, a veteran of the 1992-1993 Abkhazian-Georgia [...]
29 January 2016
by AFP
Dramatic video of Abidjan clashes at Gbagbo trial
Dramatic video footage of armed clashes in Abidjan and bloodied corpses lined up on the streets opened the second day Friday of the landmark trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. The prosecution accuses Gbagbo, 70, and [...]
29 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Searching for the path of reconciliation, Central African Republic looks to Rwanda
Two years ago, in the aftermath of the violence by the Seleka militia against Christians, anti-Muslim pogroms in Central Africa Republic (CAR) threatened to escalate into genocide. Today, the country is trying to find a way out of [...]
28 January 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Justice for Victims before the ICC?
The International Criminal Court (ICC), which has been working for over a decade, was hailed on its creation as having innovative provisions for victims. Its Statutes provide for victim participation and representation in trials, [...]
27 January 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ivorian ex-President Facing the ICC and Facing History
The trial of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo set to start on January 28 will be the first time the International Criminal Court (ICC) has tried a former head of State. Gbagbo will be tried jointly with Charles Blé Goudé, f [...]
27 January 2016
by AFP
ICC prosecutor to probe 2008 alleged war crimes in Georgia
Judges at the International Criminal Court Wednesday gave its prosecutor a green light to launch a new inquiry into allegations of war crimes during a brief but bloody 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. It will be the first prob [...]
26 January 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
UN Must Take Action on South Sudan, Say NGOs
A confidential UN experts’ report leaked to the press on Tuesday calls for an arms embargo on South Sudan. It also says President Salva Kiir and a rebel leader should be sanctioned over atrocities in a two-year civil war. The repo [...]
25 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Only “Short-Term Policies to Contain Anger” in Protesting Tunisian Region
Olfa Lamloum is a political scientist and director of the International Alert office in Tunisia. She seeks in her research and that of her team the voice of the marginalized. In April 2015, Alert International published a qualitat [...]
25 January 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
The Week in Review: Protests in Tunisia, UN in Burundi
Tunisia has innovated in the field of transitional justice. A request submitted to the country’s Truth and Dignity Commission seeks to have the region of Kasserine recognized as a “victimized region”. JusticeInfo correspondent Olf [...]
22 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan, Justiceinfo.net editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
International Criminal Justice, A Help or Hindrance to Peace?
For the last twenty years, the question of how to combine peace and justice has been a recurring issue in international relations. From Syria to Colombia, from former Yugoslavia to the Central African Republic, controversies aroun [...]
20 January 2016
by Jocelyn Kelly and Pauline Zerla
Communities Show Resilience but LRA Leaves Lasting Trauma, says HHI Report
In the fall of 2015, three young men escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army, a brutal rebel group that is known for the abduction and conscription of children. The three youth hiked through vast tracts of forest and remote land to the [...]
20 January 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
LRA Rebel Commander and Ex-Child Soldier Faces the ICC
On Thursday, Dominic Ongwen, one of the most notorious leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, will again face judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in hearings set to last until January 27. This follows his [...]
20 January 2016
by Habibou Bangré, Correspondent in Kinshasa
DR Congo Wants to Try Returned ICC Convict Again
Germain Katanga wanted to go back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to rejoin the army or become a farmer, but the judicial authorities have not finished with him. “He will be tried for acts other than those dealt with by the IC [...]
19 January 2016
by AFP
'Staggering' death toll for Iraqi civilians since 2014: UN
The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq over the past two years is "staggering", the United Nations said Tuesday, with at least 18,802 people killed and another 36,245 injured.The figures count only documented casualtie [...]