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.
What Hope for Burundi After All the Failed Initiatives?
18 January 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
“I believe that Member States, and this Council, can intervene effectively to prevent the repetition of past horrors,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told the UN Security Council in Novembe [...]
18 January 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
This has been an eventful week showing the important role transitional justice can play in places like Cambodia, Kosovo, Kenya and Burundi, but that a hesitant international community often sets it in motion late. On Friday, the [...]
16 January 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
For four days of hearings this week in the trial of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang, the new buildings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have been the scene of the same ballet. A few minutes [...]
15 January 2016
by AFP
A new EU-backed court to try war crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas during the Kosovo war will open this year in The Hague, the Dutch government said Friday."The court will try serious crimes allegedly commit [...]
14 January 2016
by IRIN
How a city in Tanzania holds the key to peace in Burundi
At some stage, both sides in Burundi’s increasingly bloody political crisis are likely to be sitting across the table from one another in Arusha, Tanzania, looking to agree a political settlement. Arusha, a laidback cosmopolitan c [...]
13 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Remembering January 2011 with Light on Tunisia Army Abuses
Five years after January 14, 2011, many questions on what happened after the bloody nights of January 15, 16 and 17 have not been completely answered. Ben Ali, the fallen dictator, had nevertheless already left for Saudi Arabia. H [...]
12 January 2016
by Studio Tamani and JusticeInfo.net
War Crimes Committed in Northern Mali in 2014 and 2015, says UN
Atrocities that may classify as war crimes were committed in northern Mali in May 2014 and May 2015 by armed groups and Malian security forces, according to two UN reports published in December. The armed groups reject these accus [...]
11 January 2016
by François Sergent
The week in review : Guatemala sets an example
In this relatively calm week for transitional justice, the example came from Guatemala. This small Latin American country, which was torn apart by a bloody civil war lasting nearly 40 years (1960-1996) and leaving thousands dead, [...]
7 January 2016
by Habibou Bangré, Kinshasa
Kinshasa and Kigali Face Off over Ntaganzwa Arrest
The case of former Rwandan mayor and genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa, recently arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is turning into a headache. The UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), whi [...]
7 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Sidi Bouzid
Tunisian Lawyers Fighting for Justice in Sidi Bouzid
Lawyer Khaled Aouinia, big and tall at 45, has the passionate, determined, powerful voice for tough arguments in court. Before the Tunisian revolution he got himself noticed for voluntarily taking up the most “indefensible” causes [...]
5 January 2016
by Emmanuel Sehene, Taba
Slow Reconciliation in ex-Fief of Rwandan Genocide Convict
In the former Rwandan commune of Taba, less than 60 kilometres from Kigali, people still talk of its former mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu, the first person to be tried and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICT [...]
5 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net editorial advisor and assistant professor at Neuchâtel University
Turkey, Israel, Russia and the age of “Realjuridik”
In the mid- nineteenth century, German writer and politician Ludwig von Rochau coined the term Realpolitik to describe the clash between the Age of Enlightenment’s aspirations for progress and the power play between the new nation [...]
5 January 2016
by Samuel Okiror
Opinion : What next for the Burundi peace process?
Talks aimed at a settlement to Burundi’s violent political divide are due to start in neighbouring Tanzania on Wednesday, but the government is taking a hard line over what it considers interference in its internal affairs. It ins [...]
5 January 2016
by AFP
Ivory Coast details New Year leniency for 3,100 prisoners
Ivory Coast's justice minister on Monday gave details of President Alassane Ouattara's pledge to show leniency to 3,100 inmates, saying only a small portion of those selected were behind bars for deadly post-election unrest. The [...]
4 January 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : In Nepal, the undue indian influence
India has played a significant and influential role in Nepali politics and society related to all the major events of the post-conflict era. In 2005, after a decade long violent conflict (1996-2006), the seven party alliance (SPA) [...]
3 January 2016
by François Sergeant, JusticeInfo.net
Elections and Genocide Convictions Mark Last Week of 2015
The last transitional justice week of 2015 saw presidential elections in the Central African Republic, marking a new step in the long transition of this country ravaged for nearly three years by inter-communal violence. The intern [...]
29 December 2015
by Emmanuel Sehene, Kigali
Kigali Tones Down Criticism as Rwanda Tribunal Closes
As the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) closes its doors, Kigali’s assessment of its work is less critical than in the past. The virulent tone of the past is sometimes even replaced by praise, although Rwanda [...]
23 December 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project, associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Whatever Happened to "Responsibility to Protect"?
What has become of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) ten years after it was adopted by the international community? Has it helped stop the unleashing of violence in certain African countries? Or should we proclaim it dead afte [...]
23 December 2015
by AFP
Burundi 'brutal killings' included executions: Amnesty
Burundi security forces carried out executions by shooting people in the head after street battles in the capital earlier this month, Amnesty International said Tuesday, warning of a "deepening human rights crisis". Violence on De [...]