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.
Kenya sets “Dangerous Precedent” at ICC Assembly
30 November 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
This year’s annual assembly (Assembly of States Parties) of the International Criminal Court was hijacked by a Kenyan offensive to save its Deputy President from the Court, which is trying him for crimes against humanity. Througho [...]
30 November 2015
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Tension between security policies and individual freedoms this week continued to impact on justice and reconciliation processes. Three countries hit by terrorism, France, Mali and Tunisia, have introduced states of emergency, redu [...]
27 November 2015
by Dr Phil Clark
On 23 September 2015, the Colombian government and FARC rebels reached an historic agreement on transitional justice, the fifth of six agenda items, paving the way for a final peace deal to be signed by March 2016. In a joint anno [...]
26 November 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
On Sunday November 15, Tunisian public television director Mustapha Ben Letaief was fired by Prime Minister Habib Essid over the broadcast of a video. The television had broadcast in its 1 PM news the previous day a video showing [...]
24 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza and Studio Tamani
Mali Truth Commission To Hear Victims in Timbuktu
For its first mission outside the capital Bamako, Mali’s new Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has chosen Timbuktu, where destruction of religious monuments three years ago have been classed as war crimes for the first [...]
24 November 2015
by Paul Seils
Opinion : Transforming Education, Transforming the Future
In countries emerging from conflict or dictatorship, the risk of recurrence of violence is real. The way in which societies learn about and remember the past – how and why mass atrocity occurred – can enlarge or reduce this risk. [...]
24 November 2015
by AFP
Obama slaps sanctions on crisis-torn Burundi’s Number Two
The US on Monday slapped sanctions on Burundi's Public Security Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni -- the regime's number two -- and three others, linking them to the country's descent into violence. The news came as the government [...]
23 November 2015
by International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Opinion: History Lessons Help Kenyan Youth See Their Role in Building a Thriving Democracy
Young people in Kenya now have a new tool to help them learn about difficult periods in Kenyan history and discuss justice, democracy, leadership, and their role as Kenyan citizens. It is an interactive, illustrated educational bo [...]
23 November 2015
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
This Week: Paris, Bamako Attacks Raise Same Issues
The past week was again a sad one for justice. The world was shocked by a succession of violent Islamist attacks in Beirut, Paris and Bamako. In Tunisia the brutal, videotaped throat-slitting of a young shepherd shocked the whole [...]
21 November 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Fear and Trauma Silencing Tunisia’s Women Victims
“L”, the woman hiding in the cupboard, lived semi-hidden for 17 years. To protect her political activist husband wanted by ex-president Ben Ali’s police, she made a one-metre wide cavity in a wall behind a cupboard and hid her hus [...]
20 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Shadow of ex-presidents over Central African Republic
Former presidents François Bozizé and Michel Djotodia are being talked about in scarcely veiled terms as the main people behind deadly violence that has reignited in the Central African Republic since September. Although in exile [...]
19 November 2015
by David Tolbert / ICTJ
Doing Right by Victims in Cote d’Ivoire: Ouattara’s Second Term
Last month’s presidential election capped four years of relative peace in Cote d’Ivoire. To make the West African country of 23 million an example of how to address a legacy of violent civil strife, newly reelected President Alass [...]
19 November 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Kenya “Hijacks” ICC Annual Assembly
The International Criminal Court’s 2015 annual assembly (Assembly of States Parties) currently taking place in The Hague is being dominated once again by African issues. Kenya has managed to bring the trial of its Deputy President [...]
19 November 2015
by Jo Biddle, AFP
"As a human rights activist, I do feel frustrated sometimes" says ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
Three years into her nine-year tenure the prosecutor of the world's only permanent war crimes court is battling a growing caseload as she fights "to give victims a voice." This year Fatou Bensouda, a trained lawyer from Gambia, op [...]
18 November 2015
by Claude Muhindo Sengenya / IRIN
Doubts plague Congo’s latest demobilisation programme
A major new attempt to return thousands of rebel fighters to civilian life in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been beset by delays and is still threatened by funding constraints and continuing insecurity, according to analyst [...]
18 November 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
“Sexual Violence in Conflict can be Prevented,” says ICRC conference
“Sexual violence against civilians is not an inevitable consequence of armed conflict”. This was the message of a recent conference organized in Geneva by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Geneva Centre f [...]
18 November 2015
by Désiré Nimubona
Opinion : What talks in Burundi should look like
BUJUMBURA, 17 November 2015 (IRIN) - Warnings of a looming genocide in Burundi dangerously misrepresent the nature of the crisis in my country, but the widespread calls for urgent mediated talks are nevertheless well founded. Th [...]
17 November 2015
by Habibou Bangré reporting from Kinshasa
DRC and the Difficulties of Returning "M23" Rebels to Civilian Life
After a military defeat in late 2013, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel movement is trying to turn itself into a political party. The group was formed in May 2012 in North Kivu, an unstable eastern province of the DRC t [...]
16 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Burundi Trying to Silence Last Free Press
With the leading privately-owned news radio stations still closed since 14 May, the government has now turned its sights on Iwacu, a privately-owned weekly that is regarded as moderate and professional and is the only independent [...]