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.
Why Colombia is a pioneer in restorative justice
20 May 2021
by Mary de la Libertad Diaz Marquez
In an innovative journey of transitional justice already well underway, Colombia is putting restorative justice to a test. It’s still a question to what extent this approach is embraced so that not only victims and perpetrators bu [...]
20 May 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Fatou Bensouda has given one of her last interviews as outgoing International Criminal Court Prosecutor to our correspondents and partners Asymmetrical Haircuts in The Hague. In this exclusive podcast, she talks about lessons lear [...]
18 May 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
An emblematic family is back in the news, as Rwandan courts prepare to open the trial of Béatrice Munyenyezi, who was extradited from the United States last April. The accused is none other than the wife of Arsène Shalom Ntahobali [...]
17 May 2021
by André Guichaoua
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is visiting Paris this Monday and Tuesday, amidst a warming of diplomatic relations between the two countries. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Kigali the following week. In this [...]
14 May 2021
by Kwasi Konadu
Slavery: what the United States can learn from Africa about reparations
In the United States, the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people. Looki [...]
13 May 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh's justice and the shadow of Bensouda
This week in Gambia, the Truth Commission is ending probing the lawyers who established and entrenched the Yahya Jammeh dictatorship, without having called some of the most interesting witnesses. One of the elephants in the room i [...]
10 May 2021
by Jeanne Sulzer
France or Germany: state torturers, don't go to the wrong place
In early 2021, France’s highest court granted immunity to state officials suspected of international crimes, while at the same time the German Federal Court rejected such a protection. The International Law Commission, which is cu [...]
7 May 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Kidnappings in Colombia: FARC leaders acknowledge full responsibility
In what has been the clearest result so far of Colombia’s transitional justice, last Friday, seven top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces acknowledged their responsibility over thousands of kidnappings and asked for [...]
6 May 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Are women the “ordinary victims” of political violence?
Sociologist Sélima Kebaili, a gender studies researcher at the University of Lausanne, looks in a recent thesis at women’s experience of transitional justice in Tunisia. Her work, which she recently defended at the École des haute [...]
6 May 2021
by AFP
ICC's second highest sentence given to Dominic Ongwen
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years' jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity. While a [...]
4 May 2021
by Guillaume Perrier
Why Joe Biden recognized the Armenian genocide
On April 24, the president of the United States officially designated the crime committed against Armenians by the Young Turk movement in 1915 as genocide. This recognition marks the deterioration of America's relationship with Pr [...]
3 May 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When “legal junglers” defend their role under military rule
The Yahya Jammeh regime relied on lawyers to draft and enact decrees that got rid of fundamental human rights. Some of them, including the first Minister of Justice under the military junta, were called to testify before Gambia’s [...]
30 April 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The scandal of the “banished babies” in Ireland
Over several decades and into the 1970’s, thousands of unmarried women were forced into mother and baby homes run by the church or the state in Ireland. 50,000 babies were taken away from their mothers. Women from 12-years old and [...]
30 April 2021
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan: Transitional justice in quarantine
It's everywhere, all the time, in all the documents. But two years after the revolution in Sudan, transitional justice is stalled. How can the country reconcile peace and justice? How can it take account of regional specificities? [...]
29 April 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
At the Syrian trial in Germany, personal encounters with Colonel Raslan
In Germany, the first trial on crimes by the Syrian regime has entered its second year. After establishing the structural context in which the crimes were committed, the court is now focusing on the individual role of the accused [...]
27 April 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Aaron Weah: “Liberians have been reminded that justice is still possible”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Aaron Weah Civil society activist and scholar on transitional justice issues Aaron Weah is a leading expert on transitional justice in Liberia. He is the only Liberian scholar to have attended the [...]
26 April 2021
by Deguène Cissé
Habré stays in jail but his support grows
Four years after his life sentence was upheld on appeal, former Chadian president Hissène Habré is to remain in jail. On April 20, the Senegalese judiciary rejected his request for a temporary release on health grounds. But Habré [...]
23 April 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Syria, the Dutch international crimes unit new focus
On 21 April the first Syrian asylum seeker was convicted in The Netherlands of war crimes. Are investigations into Syria now bearing fruit, or are the Dutch authorities still dealing with atrocities in the Syrian conflict piecemea [...]
22 April 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi: Please hide this trial from Liberians
The trial of former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi before a Finnish court concluded its hearings in Liberia on 7 April and is to resume on 28 April in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In Liberia, civil society had high exp [...]