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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.

Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis in Iraq: report
13 November 2015 by AFP
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder. A Kurdish-speaking minori [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi victory will test commitment to human rights in Myanmar
12 November 2015 by The Conversation / Andrew Fagan
Myanmar has taken a potentially momentous step away from dictatorship and towards democracy. More than 6,000 candidates from 91 political parties competed for the votes of 33m registered voters on November 8 in the country’s first [...]
Opinion : A Dictator on Trial in Africa
12 November 2015 by Reed Brody
(Dakar, Senegal) -- “To the victims I ask for forgiveness.  I know it’s not sufficient, but I ask for forgiveness.”  Bandjim Bandoum, once a top political police agent of the former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, had waited 25 y [...]
Key Challenges for Myanmar
12 November 2015 by Jared Ferrie Irin
BANGKOK, 11 November 2015 (IRIN) - Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party is headed for a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first reasonably free elections since a 1990 vote that the NLD won but the military ignored. [...]
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11 November 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project
Hissène Habré trial coverage over in Chad Justice must not only be done, but also be seen to be done. This saying has never had greater resonance as in the development of international justice. How can a historic trial serve as an example if the victims and communities mo [...]
10 November 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
“Urgent International Action needed on Burundi", says FIDH vice president Dismas Kitenge Senga, a research professor at Kisangani University in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is also vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), which has been alerting the world for months on [...]
9 November 2015 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion: Nepal's Transitional Justice Failure   Nepal’s multitude of post conflict governments have been controlled and hijacked by alleged perpetrators and violators of human rights. For more than 9 years justice has been a distant dream for thousands of conflict victims. My [...]
7 November 2015 by Carina Tertsakian
Opinion : Burundi’s Descent Into Lawlessness Ask anyone in Bujumbura and they will tell you the same thing: dark days lie ahead. Burundi seems to be descending into uncontrolled violence. A frightening lawlessness is taking hold, which some authorities appear to be taking ad [...]
7 November 2015 by François Sergent
Burundi Genocide Fear Is genocide still possible in late 2015? Yes, says Jean-Marie Guéhenno, head of International Crisis Group (ICG) and former head of the UN’s department of peacekeeping operations, in a Tweet widely retweeted on Thursday. “Violence [...]
6 November 2015 by AFP
BURUNDI "CLOSE TO CIVIL WAR", WARNS CRISIS GROUP After months of violence, troubled Burundi risks sliding into civil war, a leading think tank has warned, issuing a "conflict alert" after a string of battles between gunmen. "Burundi again faces the possibility of mass atrocities [...]
6 November 2015 by Hippolyte Marboua (Bangui) and Ephrem Rugiririza
CENTRAL AFRICAN PARLIAMENTARIANS MARCH AGAINST VIOLENCE In an unusual move, members of the Central African Republic’s transitional parliament (CNT) on Wednesday staged a peaceful march in Bangui denouncing the failure of the transitional government and international forces to end inter [...]
5 November 2015 by Justiceinfo.net avec AFP
Syria regime profits from widescale disappearances: Amnesty Syria's government is profiting from money charged to families of people trying to find loved ones forceably disappeared in what are crimes against humanity, rights group Amnesty International charged Thursday. The group said the [...]
5 November 2015 by AFP
Myanmar's Suu Kyi says don't 'exaggerate' Rohingya plight Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday said it was important not to "exaggerate" the plight of the nation's persecuted Rohingya, hundreds of thousands of whom have been barred from Sunday's landmark polls.  Suu Kyi ha [...]
4 November 2015 by Kate Cronin-Furman
Will Sri Lanka’s New Government Provide Accountability for Civil War Atrocities? Six years after the end of Sri Lanka’s devastating civil war, a transitional justice process is finally beginning. The consensus adoption this month of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability, cosponsored by Sri Lan [...]
4 November 2015 by International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Redress Needed for Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda and Their Mothers Children born as a result of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda and their mothers face continued and compounded violations of their rights and dignity, says the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Without [...]
4 November 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
SWITZERLAND EXAMINES TORTURE CASE AGAINST BAHRAIN ATTORNEY GENERAL Human rights activists are hailing news that Swiss authorities have opened a case against Bahrain’s Attorney General Ali Bin Fadhul Al-Buainain, after torture allegations were filed against him. The complaint was filed in Septembe [...]
3 November 2015 by Pierre Hazan
Central African Republic: false promises and a real opportunity for justice 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
CHADIAN EX-PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF RAPE 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
Weekly Summary: Women and peace, plus African ex-Presidents facing justice 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 [...]