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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.

Fresh Attempts to Muzzle Free Speech in Burundi
2 December 2015 by Carina Tertsakian, Human Rights Watch
Burundi’s journalists and human rights defenders have had a rough year. A relentless government crackdown has forced almost all of them to flee the country. The assault has been overwhelming: government closure of all the main pri [...]
Kigali demands Archives as Rwanda Tribunal Closes
1 December 2015 by JusticeInfo.net
The Rwandan government repeated its demand Tuesday that the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) be transferred to Rwanda. This came at an official closing ceremony of the Tribunal, which is charged wi [...]
Eight Genocide Suspects still “At Large” as Rwanda Tribunal Closes
30 November 2015 by JusticeInfo.net
As the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) closes its doors this December, eight of the 93 people it indicted are still on the run, including rich businessman Félicien Kabuga, whom the Prosecutor presents as the fina [...]
HISTORIC DECISIONS OF THE ICTR
30 November 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza
After 20 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is officially closing on December 1, although one Appeals decision on the so-called "Butare" case remains outstanding. It is expected on December 14. Below are [...]
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30 November 2015 by JusticeInfo.net
Rwanda Tribunal Shows “Impunity is Not an Option" Human Rights Watch (HRW) was in the forefront of NGOs pushing for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which  officially closes its doors on December 1. Géraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, international justice advocacy [...]
30 November 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Kenya sets “Dangerous Precedent” at ICC Assembly 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
This Week: States of Emergency and the Pope in CAR 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
Are International Human Rights Organisations an Impediment to Peace? 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
Tunisia's Anti-Terrorist Law Threatens the Media 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 [...]