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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.

European Court in View on Kosovo Organ Trafficking
13 October 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project
War crimes, international organ trafficking, mafia networks and corruption involving top officials of a Balkan State, Kosovo: it sounds like the scenario for a John Le Carré novel. Tragically, though, it seems to be true. Eight ye [...]
South Sudan's latest peace deal unravelling
13 October 2015 by Jason Patinkin
NYAL, 9 October 2015 (IRIN) - South Sudan's latest peace deal is unravelling as fighting picks up and a new declaration by President Salva Kiir threatens the most delicately struck parts of the agreement. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, an [...]
Quiet quartet wins Nobel Peace Prize for laying a democratic path despite troubles in Tunisia
12 October 2015 by Laura Payne
It is a fitting that in a tumultuous year for global peacemaking, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the little-known Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. Over the past few years, the Quartet has been quietly shepherding in [...]
THIS WEEK: A NOBEL PRIZE… AND ELECTION TROUBLE
11 October 2015 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
A Nobel peace prize awarded to the Tunisian Quartet was the good news of the week. The prize, recognizing four civil society organizations (labour union UGTT, the National Order of Lawyers ONA, Tunisian Human Rights League LTDH an [...]
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11 October 2015 by Franck Petit, JusticeInfo.Net
OUTCRY AS FRANCE DROPS CASE ON RWANDAN PRIEST ACCUSED OF GENOCIDE A French court has dismissed the case against Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, the first case opened in France on the Rwandan genocide under the principle of universal competence. The announcement on October 2 has caused an outcry. T [...]
10 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR TUNISIAN TRANSITION The news was unexpected. Just the day before, a member of parliament from the majority Nidaa Tounes party had a miraculous escape from assassination in a country where terrorist violence and arrests of Jihadist group members have [...]
9 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AMID TENSION IN GUINEA Guineans are called to the ballot box this Sunday October 11 for only the second “free” presidential elections in the country’s history. Although the campaign had been relatively calm, deadly clashes broke out on Thursday after in [...]
8 October 2015 by Hippolyte Marboua (Bangui) and Ephrem Rugiririza
ELECTORAL CALENDAR UNCERTAIN AS LIFE RETURNS TO BANGUI Normal activities have resumed in Bangui since the beginning of the week, with banks and shops reopening, taxis, minibuses and motorcycle taxis working again. But the Central African Republic capital remains haunted by inter-commu [...]
8 October 2015 by Crispin Dembassa-Kette
CAR, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back BANGUI, 6 October 2015 (IRIN) - Six days of fighting that ended in Central African Republic’s capital last week has left a heavy toll: dozens dead, hundreds wounded, thousands displaced, and hope of an imminent resolution to the c [...]
7 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
URGENT REFORMS NEEDED TO CLOSE CONGO IMPUNITY GAP, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Impunity still rules in the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in the east, where rebel groups -- and also the Congolese army -- have killed, looted and raped. The government has apparently made some effort to bring justice [...]
7 October 2015 by Désiré Nimubona/IRIN
Burundi's descent into hell BUJUMBURA, 5 October 2015 (IRIN) - It's not unusual to find dead bodies in Bujumbura these days. We discover them on the streets, in drainage channels, bushes and rivers. The UN has registered 134 killings since April, when Presid [...]
6 October 2015 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional Justice in Nepal: The Perspective of the Victims This paper seeks to clarify the current needs of victims and what victim-centred transitional justice means to them now, more than 8 years after the end of Nepal’s armed conflict (1996-2006) (the “conflict”). The paper aims to und [...]
6 October 2015 by AFP
The Migrant crisis in Europe Media and politicians alike have said Europe is facing its worst migrant crisis since World War II, but some historians challenge that notion.Quantifying the current crisis is complicated because it is ongoing. The UN refugee agen [...]
6 October 2015 by Urko Aiartza Azurtza
Opinion : The missed opportunities by the spanish goverment in Basque Country Four years ago, the International Conference for the resolution for the Conflict held in Donostia (Conference of Aiete) opened in the Basque Country the opportunity and hope for the definitive resolution of the conflict. After con [...]
5 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
"Tunisia is a test case" says professor Larbi Chouikha Larbi Chouikha is a professor at the Press and Information Sciences Institute at Manouba University, Tunisia, and author of a book entitled “From the legacy of State control to the uncertainties of the transition: The difficult tr [...]
5 October 2015 by Leila Ulrich
Doing ‘Gender Justice’ in Northern Uganda ‘The microcredit was the biggest benefit I received. It gave me dignity and made me respectable. I can even afford to make myself beautiful. Without that, I couldn’t have found a husband. Nobody wants to marry a woman who was rape [...]
4 October 2015 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
Transitional justice derailed The week in transitional justice was marked by a brutal deterioration of the situation in Bangui. Calm returned to the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) after violence that left dozens dead and injured, and thousands d [...]
1 October 2015 by Franck Petit
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE FRENCH PROBE ON SYRIA The 55,000 photos of mutilated bodies in the “Caesar” report had only just arrived at the headquarters of France’s war crimes office when French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday September 29 made diplomatic use of it at [...]
1 October 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
International community applying failed policy in CAR, says analyst Thierry Vircoulon is Central Africa project director of the NGO International Crisis Group (ICG), which has already published several reports on the Central African Republic crisis. ICG will shortly release a new report focusing o [...]