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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.

Antoine Garapon, French magistrate and head of the Commission for Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in the Church, advocates restorative justice. illustration: portrait of Garapon.
“Restorative justice is the very soul of justice”
11 February 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Are restorative processes, like those in France dealing with Church abuse, the future in dealing with crimes that courts cannot judge? This is the plea made by French magistrate Antoine Garapon, who heads the Recognition and Repar [...]
80 years on, remembrance starts for France’s “Nomads”
10 February 2025 by Lise Foisneau
Eighty years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, we still do not know how many so-called “Nomads” were placed under house arrest, interned on French territory or murdered. However, lists drawn up by French au [...]
Is the death of the ICC imminent? And what does the future hold for international law? Two renowned experts, Mark Freeman and Mark Drumbl, examine these two topical issues. Illustration: Drumbl and Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq. Thinking about the death of the ICC and what comes next
7 February 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
Beyond the US sanctions, what led to the possible demise of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Was the model and the supremacy of criminal law just misled from the start? And if the ICC falls off the cliff, what’s next? What’ [...]
The United States sanctions the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Donald Trump delivers a speech in Washington. Trump launches sanctions against the ICC
7 February 2025 by AFP
The decision comes as no surprise, but the reactions are massive, and its consequences could threaten the existence of the International Criminal Court (ICC): on Thursday 6 February 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an execut [...]
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What justice for the victims in Afghanistan? An Afghan girl stands at the entrance of her house near a destroyed compound, in the old part of Kabul, on April 10, 2010.
6 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why Afghan victims still wait for Australian compensations In this latest podcast from our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts, we follow on with a series of episodes on Australia’s investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by its troops in Afghanistan. They discuss and highlight [...]
A Swedish documentary film shows Ian Lundin in Sudan surrounded by armed child soldiers. The footage was used in the trial of Swedish company Lundin Oil in Sweden.
6 February 2025 by Martin Schibbye
How Lundin’s filmed trip in Sudan backfired in court This Tuesday February 4, Alexandre Schneiter’s interrogation has started in Stockholm, where two former directors of the Swedish oil company Lundin are tried for complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Before him, until last week, his [...]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a hub for the mineral trade, is a magnet for neighbouring Rwanda, as it is for other countries further afield, in the European Union and elsewhere. Photo: Members of the M23 armed group, supported by Rwanda, patrol in Goma, North Kivu.
4 February 2025 by Kerstin Bree Carlson
Modern-day gold rush in North Kivu: what the law can do Is there a role for international law in what’s happening in North Kivu, and more generally in international peace, at a time when Rwanda seems to have drawn the conclusion of a global context marked by major powers openly conside [...]
Will Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the President of Sri Lanka, be able to put in place a genuine transitional justice process? Photo: Dissanayake during his election campaign in September 2024.
3 February 2025 by Julia Crawford
Can Sri Lanka now break with the past? Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war ended nearly 16 years ago, with war crimes committed on all sides. Victims have seen no justice. A new President and parliament were elected last year, representing a break with traditional parties and [...]
Osama Almasri Najim was warmly welcomed on his arrival in Libya on an Italian government plane. He had been arrested in Italy following an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
31 January 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Rome defies the ICC Italian head of the government Giorgia Meloni announced, on Tuesday January 28, that she was under investigation following the expulsion of a Libyan man wanted by the International Criminal Court. The man, Osama Najim, is known as [...]
Official portrait of Major General Jeff Sengelman who led the Australian military operations in Afghanistan.
30 January 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan: “I am one of them” “It was really ugly, and it continues to be hurtful, but we called ourselves out,” Major General Jeff Sengelman says. Today, we broadcast an exclusive interview with the man who played a key role in creating “the command climate”, [...]
In South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presents the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to South African President Thabo Mbeki on 21 March 2003 in Pretoria. The two personalities smile and shake hands.
28 January 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
A South African betrayal On 20 January, 23 South Africans whose family members were murdered, forcibly disappeared or seriously injured under Apartheid have filed an unprecedented and damning application to the Constitutional Court. With the Foundation fo [...]
A Holocaust survivor shows the tattoo she received when she arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1943.
27 January 2025 by AFP
'Tell what happened to us': the last death camp survivors This 27 January 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In this story, 40 Holocaust survivors, from all parts of the world, speak out and pass on their memories.
The ICC investigation in the Philippines is stalling. It is targeting crimes attributed to former president Rodrigo Duterte's bloodthirsty anti-drug war. But a political battle is raging between current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his vice-president Sara Duterte, the former president's daughter. Photo: In a Manila street, two effigies of Duterte and Marcos fight during a demonstration.
27 January 2025 by Tom Smith
The ICC caught in clan rivalry in Philippines The International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines is used as a political football kicked between the two dynasties that are ruling the country, the Marcos and Duterte families. And it’s unlikely to play in favour o [...]
In Australia, transitional justice is being undermined by politics. The Aboriginal community is trying to adapt to the failings of truth commissions following the recent change of government in Queensland. Photo: An Aboriginal man, with only his hands visible, burns herbs during a traditional smoking ceremony.
24 January 2025 by Maxim Shanahan
The retreating tide of transitional justice in Australia There have been many setbacks for transitional justice in Australia in the past year. The latest one happened in the state of Queensland. A new Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry was shut down after the conservative opposition won [...]
A poster of Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on a street in Kabul in August 2023. © Wakil Kohsar / AFP
23 January 2025 by AFP
ICC: Prosecutor targets Taliban leaders After the most senior Russian, Israeli, Palestinian and Burmese leaders, it's now the turn of Afghan leaders to be targeted by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Karim Khan is asking the court to issue arres [...]
Trial of Russian soldier Voislav Torden in Finland for possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. Torden sits on a television screen during his trial, surrounded by his lawyers.
23 January 2025 by Jeanette Björkqvist
Finland on the frontline for trying Russians for war crimes Finland is the stage for an unusual trial, where a 37-year-old Russian citizen is charged with war crimes committed in Ukraine. Voislav Torden is accused of leading an ambush attack in which 22 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, incl [...]
Donald Trump became President of the United States again on 20 January 2025. What danger does this represent for the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Photo: Donald Trump (back) raises his fist.
21 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Can the ICC survive the U.S. sanctions? (Part 2) The upcoming U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are throwing the court into unknown territory. They have the potential to disable the institution. Individuals working for or even interacting with the Cou [...]
Donald Trump becomes President of the United States again on 20 January 2025. What danger does this represent for the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Photo: Donald Trump (front) raises his fist.
20 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Can the ICC survive the U.S. sanctions? (Part 1) Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill calling on the U.S. president to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for any investigations into “protected persons” of the United States and its alli [...]
In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.
17 January 2025 by Bojan Gavrilovic
Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq The blame game over UNITAD’s premature closure will not do anyone any good, says Bojan Gavrilovic, a human rights lawyer. Both Iraq and the UN should put the evidence that UNITAD has collected to their intended use by creating a s [...]