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.
Did the Khmer Rouge commit genocide?
15 September 2015
by Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH, 14 September 2015 (IRIN) - During its short stay in power in the late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge killed about a quarter of Cambodia’s population, but did they commit genocide? After four years of trying surviving senior le [...]
15 September 2015
by JusticeInfo.Net
Paris University professor André Guichaoua is a leading specialist on the African Great Lakes region. In an exclusive interview with JusticeInfo.Net, he analyses recent developments in Burundi, from when President Pierre Nkurunziz [...]
Ivory Coast president urges reconciliation ahead of key vote
14 September 2015
by AFP
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara called on his supporters to "forgive" their political opponents on Sunday, while also urging them to mobilise for upcoming presidential elections in which he is seeking a second term. The ba [...]
11 September 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Michel Desaedeleer, a US and Belgian citizen, was arrested in Spain at the end of August on a European arrest warrant, suspected of enslavement as a crime against humanity and pillage of “blood diamonds” that helped fuel the Sierr [...]
10 September 2015
by Alexis Adele, IRIN
Opinion: three concerns ahead of Côte d’Ivoire poll
ABIDJAN, 21 July 2015 (IRIN) - Five years after Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed presidential election threw the country into turmoil and left more than 3,000 dead, its people are set to go to the polls again. Could we see similar unrest [...]
9 September 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Ukraine gives ICC green light to probe alleged crimes in the East
The Ukrainian government on Tuesday gave a green light to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes committed on its territory since February 20, 2014, notably in the east of the country where some 8,000 people [...]
8 September 2015
by AFP
Cambodia : The Forgotten Genocide of The Muslim Minority
A member of Cambodia's minority Cham Muslim community Monday recounted the horrors of living under the Khmer Rouge, describing how regime cadres burned Qurans, forced them to eat pork and murdered them en masse. The testimony came [...]
7 September 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Habré Remains Mute as his Trial Restarts
True to form, former Chadian President Hissène Habré refused to turn up in person on Monday at the resumption of his trial in Dakar for crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. The Registrar nevertheless read out his indic [...]
3 September 2015
by AFP
Bosco Ntaganda at the ICC, "I am a soldier, not a criminal'
Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda told his war crimes trial Thursday he was 'a soldier, not a criminal', breaking his silence for the first time since surrendering to the International Criminal Court."I have been described as [...]
3 September 2015
by AFP
War crimes complaint filed against Chad leader Deby
The Senegalese court trying ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for atrocities has received a complaint of rights abuses against his successor, it said on Thursday.Idriss Deby, who overthrew Habre in 1990, has been accused of "genoc [...]
3 September 2015
by David Tolbert, ICTJ's President
Opinion : Tunisia's "Reconciliation Bill" Threatens Gains of the Revolution
Tunisia has until now inspired the region and the rest of the world by taking the democratic path after its 2011 revolution. But the current dysfunction of the political system, the deep poverty in the country's marginalized rura [...]
2 September 2015
by Katell ABIVEN
Guatemala: President Is Urged to Resign
Guatemala's Congress voted Tuesday to strip embattled President Otto Perez of his immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted for allegedly masterminding a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme. Hours after the resolution [...]
2 September 2015
by Cristíán Correa
Inter-American Court’s Dangerous Precedent in Limiting Insurgents’ Right to Reparations
In an important recent decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) affirmed that the extrajudicial execution of a member of a subversive group is a violation of the right to life and a state’s obligations under inte [...]
31 August 2015
by Dr. Kora Andrieu, Human Rights Officer, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Mali
Confronting the dictatorial past in Tunisia: The politicization of transitional justice
In Tunisia, soon after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in January 2011, the toolkit of transitional justice was almost immediately put in place. Countless conferences, workshops and seminars were organized by the international com [...]
28 August 2015
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal: Looking for my disappeared father
Every August 30th since the signing of the comprehensive peace accord (CPA) in 2006, families have marked the International Day of the Disappeared to commemorate more than 1,400 disappeared relatives and light a ray of hope for ju [...]
27 August 2015
by Stephen Graham
Is South Sudan’s latest peace accord the real deal?
NAIROBI, 26 August 2015 (IRIN) - After months of foot-dragging and under the threat of United Nations sanctions, South Sudan President Salva Kiir today finally signed a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending the country’s civil w [...]
26 August 2015
by AFP
South Sudan peace deal: key points to end war
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is expected to sign a peace deal Wednesday, aimed at ending 20 months of civil war. At least seven ceasefire deals have been agreed and then shattered within days -- if not hours -- in the world [...]