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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.

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.
Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere
7 July 2022 by Tom Dannenbaum, Alex De Waal and Daniel Maxwell
Freeing Ukrainian wheat by facilitating its return to world markets is an urgent and timely imperative. But at the same time, warring parties around the world continue to use famine as a weapon, as old as war itself. The authors o [...]
3D image illustrating the construction project of the Paris court (office buildings). In the foreground, the logos of several companies (Lafarge, BNP Paribas, Uniqlo, Amesys and Castel group) are embedded in bubbles. Lafarge and the judicial twists and turns of corporate liability in France
5 July 2022 by Lena Bjurström
Since 2016, the Lafarge case seems to have been stretched out over the years and the appeals. But its many twists and turns raise questions about complicity in crimes against humanity, the place of a company as a defendant and the [...]
Drawing of Laurent Bucyibaruta sitting in the courtroom of his trial in Paris. In the background, a magistrate. Rwanda: "Bucyibaruta did what he could"
4 July 2022 by Franck Petit
The genocide trial of former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta enters its final phase this week in Paris. Among the 115 witnesses, experts and civil parties called to testify, some defence witnesses portray a “careful” prefect w [...]
The chairman of the ICC (next to the president and a legal counsel) ratify the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court 20 years on, an ICC still in campaign for ratification
1 July 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
To mark the 20th anniversary of the only permanent international criminal court, active in The Hague since the ratification of the Rome Treaty by 60 states on 1 July 2002, our partners at Asymmetrical Aircuts have invited a panel [...]
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Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.
1 July 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings The day of reckoning has finally arrived, between June 21 and 23 in Colombia, when seven former commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced their victims in the kidnapping of thousands of people. Followin [...]
Offices of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Windows in perspective.
30 June 2022 by Reed Brody
The ICC at 20: elusive success, double standards and the “Ukraine moment” Tomorrow, 1 July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. On this occasion, human rights lawyer Reed Brody looks back at the results of the Court, which has not convicted a single state official [...]
Paul Gicheru in videoconference at the closing hearing of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
28 June 2022 by Janet Anderson
Last stabs in the darkness at the ICC on the Kenyan case As if the historic failure of the Kenyan trial was not bitter enough, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken it upon itself, in agreeing to prosecute Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, to seek the trut [...]
A patrol of Senegalese soldiers in the forest of Casamance (Blaze Forest)
27 June 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia Three years ago, the Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a complaint against a Swiss businessman operating in the Gambia with the complicity of its former president Yahya Jammeh. The Swiss national is accused of having committed a [...]
Prisoner of war in Ulkraine
24 June 2022 by Julia Crawford
Crimes against prisoners of war in Ukraine: can both sides be tried? Numerous international and national investigations are being launched into war crimes in Ukraine. The focus has been on the alleged crimes of Russian forces, but there are also some allegations concerning Ukrainian forces, particu [...]
Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow and Emmanuel Joof present white paper at press conference
23 June 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Banjul working towards a hybrid Gambia-ECOWAS court In an interview with Justice Info Gambia’s Justice minister Dawda Jallow said his government has the political will to deliver justice for past crimes. No clear strategy has been explained yet and some victims doubt the government [...]
Illustration (double portrait) by Joanna Kyriakakis and Mark Drumbl
21 June 2022 by Thierry Cruvellier and Clémentine Méténier
“No one really wants corporations to be liable” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Joanna Kyriakakis & Mark Drumbl Why international courts have been so impotent at prosecuting businessmen? Why international law has shielded companies from responsibility in atrocity crimes? W [...]
A scale whose weight tilts to one side (multiple logos of multinationals: Total, Ericsson, Lundin, Exxon Mobil, Lafarge). On the other side, the text
20 June 2022 by Clémentine Méténier
Business and human rights: the pressure is mounting   There are a growing number of criminal proceedings aimed at holding multinational companies accountable for their direct or indirect role in international crimes or serious human rights violations. These include complicity in war [...]
Illustration mettant en scène des hommes et femmes d'affaire flottant sur un océan déchaîné. Certains semblent confiants et d'autres paniquent. Au fond, un radeau flotte transportant un magistrat en robe (mat symolisant la balance de la justice).
20 June 2022 by Justice Info
Corporations face the rising tide of justice It is talked about for every war; it is revealed after every dictatorship; it is even more debated in the face of the destruction of the planet and climate change: the responsibility of businesses in international crimes is both r [...]
A soldier of the Syrian government army points his weapon at a large hole whose bottom is not visible
16 June 2022 by Veronica Bellintani
What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice Last April two academics revealed their investigation on a gruesome video showing a Syrian government soldier executing at least 41 civilians in Tadamon, Damascus, in 2013. The killer is said to have been arrested by Syrian author [...]
Many people wearing life jackets wait untel the are rescued from a rubber boat
14 June 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The continuing nightmare of migrants in Libya For several years, NGOs and journalists have desperately alerted courts and governments on the crimes committed against migrants in Libya. Thousands of them are trapped in detention centers, subject to extortion, starvation, rape, [...]
3 soldiers (Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun) stand behind bars
14 June 2022 by Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions The treatment of prisoners of war (POW) in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is a growing issue. Both sides have been accused of violations of the Geneva Conventions that protect combatants when they are no longer able to fi [...]
Cardboard tubes displaying photo portraits of Vladimir Putin, on the display of a merchant in Russia
13 June 2022 by Franck Petit
Ukraine: “Putin’s goal is not eradication but subjugation” In the Ukraine conflict, accusations of genocide have been made by both sides. Moscow has sought to justify its armed intervention by saying there is an ongoing genocide against the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass regio [...]
A man in military clothing stands outside (Yumbi area). His face is not visible.
10 June 2022 by Caleb Kazadi
Yumbi massacres: Justice in slow motion Opened a year ago, the trial concerning ethnic violence in Yumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo, has been at a standstill since the beginning of April. Eighty people are on trial for acts including crimes against humanity during cl [...]
Illustration of a villa lost in the desert. A barbed wire fence in the foreground with a sign displaying a UN (ICTR) logo.
9 June 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The punishment of the stateless ICTR "migrants" Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without pa [...]