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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.

Mali Peace Accord Under Pressure
25 August 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Two months after a peace accord for northern Mali was signed amid fanfare, the deal is looking extremely fragile. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of Touareg and Arab rebels which is a key player, has just p [...]
Presidential Threat to Tunisia’s Transitional Justice
24 August 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunisia correspondent
In autumn 2014, campaigning was in full swing in Tunisia for legislative and presidential elections. Two political parties were running neck and neck at the top of the opinion polls, the moderate Islamist Ennahdha and Nidaa Tounès [...]
What peace deal in Mali ?
22 August 2015 by Katarina Höije IRIN
BAMAKO, 19 August 2015 (IRIN) - More than eight weeks after a landmark peace accord between Mali’s Bamako government and a Tuareg-led rebel coalition brought hope of an end to years of unrest, little has been done to end the fight [...]
Opinion : Dadis Camara, Guinea and the ICC
22 August 2015 by Moussa Bienvenu Haba
On September 28, 2009 in the Guinean capital Conakry, a peaceful demonstration by thousands of people opposing the presidential candidacy of Dadis Camara, then head of the military junta ruling the country, was violently repressed [...]
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20 August 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza,JusticeInfo.Net
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES VOW TO “SAVE” CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC The Central African Republic (CAR) is gripped by electoral fever in the run up to presidential polls scheduled for October 18. The candidates are numerous, even if some people are calling for a postponement so the elections can be [...]
20 August 2015 by AFP
FRENCH PROSECUTORS WANT TO DROP CASE TRANSFERRED BY ICTR After 20 years of investigations, Paris prosecutors said Wednesday they had asked for the case against a Rwandan Catholic priest accused of genocide to be thrown out.  The case of Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka was transferred to Fr [...]
19 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
KENYA “NON-COOPERATION” BACK ON ICC AGENDA The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday ordered a re-examination of allegations that Kenya failed to cooperate with the Court in the case against its President Uhuru Kenyatta. If so, it said judges sho [...]
19 August 2015 by Ram Bhandari
Nepal: the role of Transitional Justice Commissions from a victim perspective The recently established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) have limited their activities to government territories, meeting with line ministries and [...]
19 August 2015 by Anne Bennett
ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: ARE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR JOURNALISTS ADEQUATE? The execution of James Foley by ISIS militants last year received international headlines and highlighted the risks run by journalists, especially freelancers, reporting from war zones. It also questioned the adequacy of protectio [...]
18 August 2015 by Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Jennifer Welsh, UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect
opinion : Fulfilling our Responsibility to Protect in Yemen  According to the latest United Nations estimate, at least 1,916 civilians have been killed in Yemen since 26 March 2015 as a result of the fighting between the Saudi- led coalition, the Houthis, and their respective allies. While [...]
17 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
SRI LANKA POLLS COULD BE “CRUCIAL” FOR RECONCILIATION Sri Lanka goes to the polls on Monday August 17 in parliamentary elections. According to a recent International Crisis Group Report, the outcome could be crucial for the fight against corruption and for reconciliation in a country [...]
14 August 2015 by AFP
Born in Shining Path labor camps in Peru He doesn't know exactly how much time has passed since Shining Path guerrillas kidnapped him and put him to work on a slave-labor farm deep in the Peruvian jungle. The recently rescued man, who cannot be named for security reasons [...]
12 August 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis Correspondent
Tunisians Support the Truth Commission “Have you heard of transitional justice?”, “Do you know what kinds of abuses transitional justice deals with?”, “What do you expect of transitional justice?”, “Have you heard of the Truth and Dignity Commission?”, “Do you have con [...]
12 August 2015 by AFP
Regime committing war crimes in besieged Syria area: Amnesty Syria's government is committing war crimes against besieged residents of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus, with heavy aerial bombardment compounding the misery created by a regime blockade, Amnesty International said Wednesday. In [...]
10 August 2015 by JusticeInfo
RWANDA HAILS DISMISSAL OF SPY CHIEF EXTRADITION CASE The Rwandan government says UK extradition procedures launched in June against its intelligence chief Karenzi Karake were a “travesty of justice”. UK judicial authorities announced Monday that the procedures, based on a Spanish ex [...]
10 August 2015 by Christine Renaudat, Bogota Correspondent
COLOMBIA’S PAIN THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST Doris Salcedo, considered to be one of Colombia’s most important artists, only speaks rarely to the press. This solitude feeds her work, which is a constant quest around violence and absence. It is palpable in her work. Her sculpt [...]
7 August 2015 by Carina Tertsakian
In Burundi rumours and violence are fuelling the uncertainty On Monday morning, panic spread after rumours began circulating on social media that Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, Burundi’s leading human rights activist, had been killed. In reality he was alive and well, working away as usual, docume [...]
7 August 2015 by Pierre Hazan
FORGIVENESS or punishment, a crucial debate This week we bring you JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project Pierre Hazan’s conclusion in our series on policies of forgiveness after mass crimes. Having looked at the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi, former Yugoslavia and Sou [...]
6 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
WE HAVE HELPED THE ICC, SAYS DEPARTING US WAR CRIMES AMBASSADOR Stephen Rapp has been the US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes since August 2009. On August 7, 2015, he is stepping down from his post. Prior to this post, Rapp was also Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and befor [...]