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.
ISRAEL ABSOLVES ITS ARMY
19 June 2015
by Serge Dumont, Tel Aviv correspondent
Israeli Military Prosecutor Danny Efroni said he was closing a case on the deaths of four Palestinian children killed by an Israeli missile on July 16, 2014, while playing football on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. In so doin [...]
Opinion : Central African Republic, give peace a chance
19 June 2015
by Alexandre Liebeskind Deputy Regional Director, Africa Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva
Last weeks witnessed more of the same in Africa : A failed coup d’Etat in Burundi, the massive violation of the seventh cease-fire in South-Sudan, and a gloomy peace treaty signing ceremony in Bamako in the absence of the Tuaregs, [...]
19 June 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Mouloud Boumghar is an Algerian lawyer and Professor in Public Law at the Jules Verne University in Picardy (France). His research centres on violations of human rights and impunity, notably since the publication at the end of the [...]
18 June 2015
by Franck Petit
In recent times we see a new type of violent crimes emerging, such as those committed by Islamic State (Daech), Boko Haram in Nigeria, in the Central African Republic and by Mexican cartels. The attacks are intense, have no clear [...]
17 June 2015
by François Sergent, Editor in Chief
JusticeInfo.net takes up the challenge
JusticeInfo.net is launched, as you can see! We will talk about justice, law, remembrance, forgiveness and punishment in transition societies and beyond. How each society deals with its political violence, past and present. Justic [...]
16 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
TRUTH COMMISION FOR MALI AFTER PEACE SIGNING?
If all unfolds as planned, the Coalition of Azawad Movements (CMA), a mainly Touareg rebel movement in northern Mali, will on Saturday June 20 in Bamako add its signature to the Algiers Peace and Reconciliation Agreement. Mali’s g [...]
16 June 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
MOVE PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY DEBATE ON, SAYS FORMER AU ADVISOR
South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir as he attended an African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg has raised once again the issue of whether sitting heads of state should enjoy immunity from prosecutio [...]
16 June 2015
by Dr Valérie Arnould
Transitional Justice’s Uneven Path in the DRC
In a country marked by protracted conflicts which are estimated to have caused the death and displacement of millions of civilians, transitional justice efforts have been slow and patchy. Despite some recent advances, in particula [...]
16 June 2015
by Dr Cheryl Lawther
Northern Ireland, Dealing with the Past
A brief survey of news headlines from one week in late June 2015 reveals that, in Northern Ireland, the past is still very much in the present. Those headlines relate to the recovery of the bodies of two of the disappeared – victi [...]
15 June 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Bashir-ICC Fiasco Undermines South Africa, Says Africa Expert
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, defying a court order for him to stay, as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested for alleged war crimes and genocide. The International Criminal Court [...]
15 June 2015
by Zoran Culafic, Belgrade correspondent
Naser Oric Arrest Highlights Balkans divisions
Last week’s arrest of wartime Srebrenica Commander Naser Oric in Switzerland has sparked heated reactions from Bosniaks and Serbs along ethnic lines. A hero for the former and a criminal for the latter, Oric is becoming once again [...]
11 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza,JusticeInfo.Net, Arusha
“Historic Decision” of African Court on Murdered Burkina Faso Journalist
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday hailed as “historic” an African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) order that Burkina Faso must reopen investigations into the 1998 murder of journalist Norbert Zongo and three of [...]
11 June 2015
by Kristy Siegfried IRIN
Eritrea the european big mistake
OXFORD, 10 June 2015 (IRIN) - Several nations recently toughened their stance on asylum requests from Eritrea after a Danish report suggested those leaving the country do so largely for economic reasons. The results of a year-long [...]
10 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net, Arusha
Burundi President Wields Constitutional Court Ruling
A May 5 decision by Burundi’s Constitutional Court is now serving as a weapon for President Pierre Nkurunziza and his regime. Despite unprecedented internal protests and appeals from donor countries, the head of state is clear tha [...]
10 June 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent
Former ICC Witness Regrets Testifying
Pierre Mbodina Iribi, an imprisoned ex-member of the Congolese intelligence services, is a former witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has been in jail in Kinshasa for more than ten years. In spring 2011, he w [...]
7 June 2015
by Hippolyte Marboua, Fondation Hirondelle Radio Ndeke Luka, Bangui
CAR Special Court signed into law
The Central African Republic (CAR) has taken a new step towards setting up a Special Criminal Court to try the most serious crimes committed in the country in the last ten years. On June 3, President Catherine Samba-Panza signed o [...]
7 June 2015
by Mina Rauschenbach
Justice for whom? The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina after twenty years of "doing justice"
The scene of one of the worst cases of war-related collective violence in Europe after the Second World War, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is still recovering from its recent violent past. In the face of the widespread atrocities commi [...]
7 June 2015
by Dr Phil Clark, SOAS
Global Court Wrestling in Africa
The International Criminal Court (ICC) – the first permanent global court mandated to investigate and prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – has faced immense challenges since its inauguration in 2002. In par [...]