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.
23 March 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Twenty-four years ago, torn by different nationalist tendencies, Bosnia-Herzegovina plunged on April 6, 1992 into a sea of blood and violence. Sarajevo endured a terrible 44-month siege in which 10,000 civilians died, including 1 [...]
23 March 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
The International Criminal Court’s conviction of former Congolese Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba on March 21 was the first ever judgment handed down for international crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). Many [...]
23 March 2016
by AFP
War crimes judges Wednesday confirmed 70 charges against notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen for crimes committed in Uganda, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child soldiers. Judges at the Internati [...]
23 March 2016
by Oswaldo J. Hernández, Plaza Publica
The Case of Sepur Zarco Beneath the shawls, justice is served
The Guatemalan justice system has said it was not a lie. Sexual violence within the Sepur Zarco military outpost was real. More than ten women had to wait 34 years for the State to acknowledge this fact. However, a much deeper sto [...]
23 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic expects acquittal in UN war crimes court: report
Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said "no reasonable court" would convict him, in an interview published Wednesday, a day before a UN tribunal rules on whether he committed some of Europe's worst atrocities since World [...]
23 March 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : The right to truth
“Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the truth…" stated Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, who was killed on 24th March 1980 in his struggle on searching for truth. The United Nations General Assembly ( [...]
22 March 2016
by AFP
ICC verdict may help end cruelty of rape in war zones
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 the ruling could help stop rape as a weapon of war. [...]
22 March 2016
by AFP
ICC verdict may help end cruelty of rape in war zones
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
5 Years On, Awaiting Justice in Côte d'Ivoire : HRW
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
Impunity Rules for Torture in Tunisia
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 [...]