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.
The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice?
17 July 2015
by Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun, Global & European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
Diplomacy has resumed its role, trumping ’go it alone’ military interventions. Time-wise, we’re in for the long haul- but that could spell some good news. The fruitful culmination of negotiations between world powers and Iran ov [...]
16 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Today is International Criminal Justice Day. According to the International Criminal Court (ICC), “17 July unites all those who wish to support justice, promote victims' rights, and help prevent crimes that threaten the peace, sec [...]
16 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project and associate professor at the University of Neuchâtel
What was to be done with 120,000 suspected genocide perpetrators? That was the terrible question facing Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Hence its introduction of village courts known as gacaca and policies of forgiveness. After Bu [...]
16 July 2015
by Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner
On June 3, Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic, promulgated a law creating a Special Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute grave human rights violations committed in the country since 200 [...]
16 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Will a Silent Hissène Habré Decide to Speak at his Trial?
Will former Chadian president Hissène Habré, exiled in Senegal since his overthrow in 1990, finally break his silence? Will he attend his own trial, due to start on Monday July 20 before the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in [...]
14 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
APPEAL FOR “URGENT” ARREST OF ICC-WANTED REBEL LEADER IN EASTERN CONGO
The Democratic Republic of Congo government and United Nations peacekeepers should “urgently act to arrest the rebel leader Sylvestre Mudacumura and transfer him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague”, says Human [...]
14 July 2015
by Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, Tino Kreutzer
New Data on Security and Rule of Law in Eastern DRC
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) has released the results of the first two polls out of a series of 10 polls to be conducted in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The polls were carried out in December 2014 a [...]
14 July 2015
by Emmanuel Sehene
Procedure Could Overturn Suspect Transfer to Rwanda
Should the transfer to Kigali of the first suspect from the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) be overturned? Procedures have been under way since May before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals ( [...]
12 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
ERITREA CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMISSION FACES CHALLENGES, SAYS CHAIRMAN
In June, an inquiry commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a 500-page report detailing how Eritrea, under Isaias Afwerki's iron-fisted regime for the past 22 years, has created a repressive system [...]
11 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
“We must remember what happened in Srebrenica and Rwanda,” says Tribunal Prosecutor
Hassan Bubacar Jallow from Gambia is Chief Prosecutor for both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) -which is winding up at the end of this year- and the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (UNMICT). [...]
10 July 2015
by Tanja Matic
SREBRENICA MARKS TWENTY YEARS AFTER GENOCIDE
The remains of 136 people killed in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995 are being buried Saturday during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of a massacre whose qualification as genocide is still dividing both people in the region and [...]
10 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Serbia Needs Responsible Attitude on Genocide, says Human Rights Lawyer
As Bosnia prepared to mark 20 years on Saturday since Srebenica massacres, the UK this week proposed a Resolution seeking to have the UN Security Council declare the events in Srebenica as genocide. Despite negotiations and a post [...]
10 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan
Burundi policy of victim forgiveness amid renewed conflict
After the Central African Republic last week, we will now look at Burundi authorities’ approach to forgiveness for mass crimes before the President’s bid for a third term unleashed the latest outbreak of violence. In Burundi, prop [...]
8 July 2015
by AFP
Russia vetoes UN draft resolution on Srebrenica 'genocide'
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN resolution recognizing the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, branding the measure "confrontational" and a setback to reconciliation in the Balkans. Britain had put forward the text, hoping the [...]
6 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
CAR Electoral Marathon "Imposed by Foreigners"
The Central African Republic, which has had no less than three presidents since 2013, says it wants to emerge from a long and bloody transition by holding legitimate elections. Although already twice postponed, a new elections cal [...]
3 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan
Negotiating Forgiveness for Mass Crimes
After massive violations of human rights, many countries have introduced policies of forgiveness. But how do they work? This is the subject of a series of articles by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project and associate pro [...]
1 July 2015
by Christine Renaudat, Bogota correspondent
IN COLOMBIA, "ONLY TRUTH WILL GUARANTEE NON-REPETITION"
José Antequera was five years old when his father was shot dead by a Colombian death squad. This young lawyer and founder of the HIJOS association, which brings together children of left wing activists assassinated since the end o [...]
30 June 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
KASSERINE AS A VICTIMIZED REGION OF TUNISIA
On June 16, 2015, six months after Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission opened its doors to victims’ complaints, the Commission received a rather unique case file. It comes from Kasserine, a governorate of 430,000 inhabitants in [...]
28 June 2015
by JusticeInfo.net
BURUNDI GOVERNMENT’S CHOSEN PATH COULD PLUNGE COUNTRY INTO GRAVE CRISIS, SAYS EXPERT
Burundi is set to hold delayed and controversial legislative elections Monday, following two months of violent protests against current President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. Presidential elections are scheduled for J [...]