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.
“Just Let Us Work in Peace,” says Tunisia Truth Commission Head
4 March 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Sihem Bensedrine, who was a dissident journalist in the time of ex-President Ben Ali, has since June 9, 2014, been heading Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission. The Commission’s mandate is for four years, renewable once for one [...]
LRA abducts more than 200 in CAR: rights groups
3 March 2016
by AFP
Rebels in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have kidnapped more than 200 people this year in the Central African Republic, a quarter of them children, human rights groups said Thursday. Joseph Kony's Uganda-born rebel movement, inf [...]
3 March 2016
by Dr Simon Robins
Transitional justice mechanisms unfold in highly particular political contexts, often greatly constrained in what they are able to deliver. Indeed, the truth commission that has become the most visible signifier of a transitional [...]
3 March 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Okot George Odek, a top Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel, was captured at the beginning of this month by Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR), which on February 6 handed him over to US Special Forces working along [...]
2 March 2016
by Zoran Culafic, Balkans correspondent
Special Court Stokes Hot Debate in Kosovo
Kosovo’s outgoing President Atifete Jahjaga has ratified an agreement between Kosovo and the Netherlands on a Special Court to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters for war crimes. But media reports say the process of r [...]
2 March 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : disappeared in South Asia, all families have the right to truth
This opinion will consider the background and dynamics of enforced disappearance in South Asia and suggest that given the regional nature of this problem, greater awareness and regional collaboration is needed to help address the [...]
1 March 2016
by Maxime Domegni, Lomé correspondent
Togo Transitional Justice Leaves Much to be Done
The transitional justice process in Togo has not allowed its citizens to know more about the perpetrators of the violence that has scarred the country ever since the struggle for independence. Togo has been ruled by the Gnassing [...]
1 March 2016
by Justice Info
ICC Prosecutor issues Draft Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation, for comment
ICC-CPI
1 March 2016
by Justice Info
How Long Can the ICC Keep Palestine and Israel in Purgatory?
Justice in Conflict
1 March 2016
by Bruno Djito Segbedji, Bamako correspondent
Victims’ Rights and Protection a Challenge for Justice in Mali
Victims are at the heart of Mali’s transitional justice process, aimed at shedding light on grave human rights abuses committed since independence in 1963, especially during numerous rebellions in the North. In this interview with [...]
1 March 2016
by AFP
ICC Unveils War Crimes Charge for 'Callous' Timbuktu Attack
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday accused a Malian jihadist of war crimes for "a callous" 2012 attack on the centuries-old world heritage site of Timbuktu. "We must stand up to the destruction and defacin [...]
29 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
More Crimes Prosecuted under Universal Jurisdiction, says Report
For the second year running, rights groups TRIAL, FIBGAR, ECCHR and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) are publishing an annual report on universal jurisdiction, entitled “Make way for Justice”. Under the univers [...]
29 February 2016
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Victims’ Struggles and the Failings of Justice
The limits of transitional justice could be seen this week in places like Tunisia, Nepal, Togo and South Africa. In Nepal, several NGOs including TRIAL and REDRESS launched a campaign demanding justice for victims. The war there b [...]
28 February 2016
by AFP
Why are Timbuktu's shrines revered and who destroyed them?
The trial of a Malian jihadist charged with war crimes for ordering the 2012 destruction of 14 mausoleums of Muslim saints resumes next week at the International Criminal Court (ICC). How did the monuments come to be considered so [...]
28 February 2016
by AFP
Destruction of Timbuktu goes before ICC judges
Prosecutors Tuesday will unveil charges against an alleged Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist accused of destroying monuments at the fabled city of Timbuktu in an unprecedented case before the world's only permanent war crimes court. Ahmad [...]
27 February 2016
by AFP
Germany's twilight Nazi trials about more than justice
Germany is putting on trial several former members of the Nazi SS this year -- but seven decades after the war, they are in their 90s and unlikely to end up behind bars. Yet that doesn't diminish the importance of the legal procee [...]
26 February 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : justice for the victims in Nepal
The decade-long Maoist insurgency and the state counter-insurgency (1996-2006) was a time when terrible things happened to a lot of Nepalis, but since most of the victims have little voice, many of these stories have yet to be hea [...]
26 February 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
NGOs Demand Real Rights for Victims in Nepal
This year will mark 10 years since the end of Nepal’s conflict, in which grave human rights abuses were committed by both government forces and Maoist rebels. For years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has repeated [...]
25 February 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Burundi: Abductions, Killings Spread Fear
UN Security Council Should Press for Deployment of International Police Presence (Nairobi, The Burundian authorities are targeting perceived opponents with increased brutality, Human Rights Watch said today. Government forces are [...]