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.
"As a human rights activist, I do feel frustrated sometimes" says ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
19 November 2015
by Jo Biddle, AFP
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 [...]
18 November 2015
by Claude Muhindo Sengenya / IRIN
A major new attempt to return thousands of rebel fighters to civilian life in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been beset by delays and is still threatened by funding constraints and continuing insecurity, according to analyst [...]
18 November 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
“Sexual violence against civilians is not an inevitable consequence of armed conflict”. This was the message of a recent conference organized in Geneva by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Geneva Centre f [...]
18 November 2015
by Désiré Nimubona
BUJUMBURA, 17 November 2015 (IRIN) - Warnings of a looming genocide in Burundi dangerously misrepresent the nature of the crisis in my country, but the widespread calls for urgent mediated talks are nevertheless well founded. Th [...]
17 November 2015
by Habibou Bangré reporting from Kinshasa
DRC and the Difficulties of Returning "M23" Rebels to Civilian Life
After a military defeat in late 2013, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel movement is trying to turn itself into a political party. The group was formed in May 2012 in North Kivu, an unstable eastern province of the DRC t [...]
16 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Burundi Trying to Silence Last Free Press
With the leading privately-owned news radio stations still closed since 14 May, the government has now turned its sights on Iwacu, a privately-owned weekly that is regarded as moderate and professional and is the only independent [...]
16 November 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project and Associate Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Paris Attacks: Let Us Not Respond by finishing the work of Daesh
First comes compassion for the victims and their families, and of course solidarity. After the initial shock of the carnage also come the emotions: anger, thirst for revenge, the temptation to reduce the attackers to barbarians or [...]
15 November 2015
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
This Week: Paris, Islamic State and Burundi
Friday’s attacks in Paris, the horrific and absolute antithesis to any idea of justice and reconciliation, have marked the week, as if France were a country at war such as JusticeInfo.Net covers every day. It would seem that all t [...]
13 November 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
UN Resolution on Burundi Stops Short of Sanctions
Numerous recent warnings on violence in Burundi might have led one to expect a strong response from the UN Security Council. Some permanent Council members had even said the current climate in Burundi is reminiscent of neighbourin [...]
13 November 2015
by AFP
Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis in Iraq: report
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 [...]
12 November 2015
by The Conversation / Andrew Fagan
Aung San Suu Kyi victory will test commitment to human rights in Myanmar
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 [...]
12 November 2015
by Reed Brody
Opinion : A Dictator on Trial in Africa
(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 [...]
12 November 2015
by Jared Ferrie Irin
Key Challenges for Myanmar
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]