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.
Central African Republic: false promises and a real opportunity for justice
3 November 2015
by Pierre Hazan
In countries struggling to emerge from conflict, the fight against impunity for war criminals is essential. But to carry out this fight, the national justice system must be effective, and, too often, this is far from being the cas [...]
2 November 2015
by Oumar Dieng, correspondent in Dakar
On October 29 in Dakar, the special African court trying former Chadian president Hissène Habré suspended its hearings until November 9. The former strongman of N'Djamena is accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and tortu [...]
1 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Saturday October 31 marked fifteen years since the UN adopted Resolution 1325 calling for women’s participation at all stages of peace processes. The aim was to ensure that the voice of women, who pay a heavy price in conflicts ar [...]
31 October 2015
by Studio Tamani and JusticeInfo.Net
After four months of hesitation, the Monitoring Committee for the northern Mali peace accord seems to be entering a decisive phase. In its fifth meeting due to start early this week in Bamako, the various parties and the mediation [...]
29 October 2015
by AFP
ICC REJECTS UGANDA HEARINGS FOR FORMER REBEL COMMANDER
Once again, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected the idea of holding court hearings in the country directly concerned by the crimes it is dealing with. In the case of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, the first and only senio [...]
29 October 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
US “gravely alarmed” as Zanzibar elections cancelled
Simmering electoral tension reached a peak Wednesday on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar, following the vote on October 25. The Chairman of the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that he was cancelling [...]
28 October 2015
by AFP
War crimes, forced cannibalism in S.Sudan conflict, says African Union
Both government and rebels in South Sudan carried out war crimes against civilians and should face justice, an African Union human rights inquiry has said. The AU's Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan lists a string of abuses, in [...]
27 October 2015
by Christine Renaudat
Bogota Centre pioneers remembrance in Colombia
Bogota’s Centre for Remembrance, Peace and Reconciliation (CMPR), opened in December 2012, aims to be a meeting space rather than a museum. The monolithic, earth-coloured building has narrow windows that by night seem to glow lik [...]
26 October 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
"MAKE WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE TALKS COMPULSORY," SAYS CONGOLESE ACTIVIST
October 31 marks exactly 15 years since the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, which calls for the participation of women at all stages of peace processes. Fifteen years on, results on the ground seem meagre. In the Democrati [...]
26 October 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisian Victims Want More Say in Transitional Justice
Victims of the Tunisian dictatorship say the country’s ongoing transitional justice process is politicized and too bureaucratic. Some want to have a more direct voice in it. These are some of the findings of a report by the resear [...]
25 October 2015
by JusticeInfo.Net
Habré trial continues in Dakar, Germany stresses Holocaust responsibility
War crimes and crimes against humanity were much at issue this week in courtrooms and elsewhere. Firstly in the historic trial of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, which has been taking place before a special court in Dakar s [...]
23 October 2015
by Tristan Miquel Fondation Hirondelle and Sophie Rosenberg Cambridge University
SHADOW OF GBAGBO OVER CÔTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS
“Laurent Gbagbo and the political prisoners will be freed.” So goes the promise of opposition candidates in this Sunday’s presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire. They have been repeating this on a daily basis since the official c [...]
21 October 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
STOPPING TORTURE IN TUNISIA
Kaies Berrehouma died on October 5. Wanted by the police, he was caught by the anti-drug squad near his home in the Tunis suburb of Ouardia and beaten to death in the middle of the street, according to several witnesses. Sofiene D [...]
21 October 2015
by JusticeInfo.Net
RWANDA EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL STOPS JUSTICE FOR CRIMES IN CONGO, SAYS LAWYER
In October 2010, the United Nations published its “mapping” report on crimes committed in the former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This dense and detailed report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights looks [...]
19 October 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
BURUNDI GOVERNMENT WANTS ONE-WAY DIALOGUE
“It’s not unusual to find dead bodies in Bujumbura these days. We discover them on the streets, in drainage channels, bushes and rivers,” wrote a Burundian journalist working for IRIN on October 5. Nobody has contested this fact, [...]
19 October 2015
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.Net
SWITZERLAND IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight on Switzerland this week in transitional justice. A Swiss court was wrong to convict and fine a Turkish politician for calling the Armenian genocide an “international lie”, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled [...]
15 October 2015
by AFP
Turkish politician had right to deny Armenia genocide: Europe court
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.In a landmark free speech rulin [...]
14 October 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
SWISS “MUST TURN WORDS TO ACTION ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMES”, SAYS TRIAL
Swiss anti-impunity NGO TRIAL, supported by Amnesty International, has just published a new manual on how Swiss law can be used to prosecute international crimes under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Following changes to [...]