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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.

Opinion: Ending Genocide in Rwanda Does not Excuse Murder
27 June 2015 by Anneke van Woudenberg
When Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda’s intelligence services, was brought into the dock of a London court on Thursday, he clasped his hands above his head in a two-fisted salute to the public gallery. Dozens cheered; o [...]
The black hole of the quasi states
26 June 2015 by Tomasz Grzywaczewski Mag. iur., PhD Candidate, The Chair of International Law and International Relations; Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź, Poland
This paper is devoted to the new challenge for international security system – the rise of quasi-states. Though, these state-like entities exists for more than two decades, the Ukrainian crisis and the declarations of independence [...]
PALESTINE ENGAGES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AS LAST RESORT
25 June 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, ICC correspondent in The Hague
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday carried out its first act of cooperation with International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, submitting a confidential file of several hundred pages in support of its compl [...]
CASE AGAINST RWANDAN SPY CHIEF APPEARS FLIMSY, SAYS EXPERT
24 June 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Arrested Rwandan spy chief Karenzi Karake is due to reappear in court in Britain on Thursday, where prosecutors have asked for his extradition to Spain. Karake was detained by police at Heathrow airport on Saturday on a Spanish ar [...]
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22 June 2015 by AFP
'War crimes' likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN report Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering.The Commission o [...]
21 June 2015 by Studio Tamani, Fondation Hirondelle, Bamako
MALI'S TOUAREG REBELS SIGN PEACE DEAL Mali’s Touareg rebels on Saturday signed in Bamako a peace accord already approved by the pro-government side and international mediators. This marked a historic date for the country, which should put an end to years of war. The a [...]
21 June 2015 by Pierre Hazan
War zones: How the man in charge of genocide prevention sees the role of the media. Adama Dieng is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide to the U.N. Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. He is expressing to JusticeInfo.net his views on media responsibilities and challenges in conflict and post-conflict situa [...]
19 June 2015 by Serge Dumont, Tel Aviv correspondent
ISRAEL ABSOLVES ITS ARMY 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 [...]
19 June 2015 by Alexandre Liebeskind Deputy Regional Director, Africa Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva
Opinion : Central African Republic, give peace a chance 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
ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS ENSHRINED IMPUNITY, SAYS LAWYER 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
IS “EXTREME VIOLENCE” A NEW TYPE OF CRIME? 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 [...]