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 unresolved responsibility of Big Oil companies in Nigeria
24 March 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
On March 23 a Dutch court ruled that it was impossible to hold the oil company Shell liable for the 1995 trial and execution of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow Ogoni community leaders. The ‘Ogoni 9’ case has [...]
21 March 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
On March 16, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission submitted its final recommendations to the government on 25 amnesty applications. Eight of them were denied. Former number 2 of the military junta Sanna Saball [...]
17 March 2022
by Molly Quell and Thierry Cruvellier
The International Court of Justice sent a strong message to Moscow on Wednesday, telling the Russian Federation to stop the war and cease military activities in Ukraine. It did it through an overwhelming 13-2 decision. However, th [...]
17 March 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s “second best justice”
On March 10 judges of the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the earlier acquittal of two defendants. Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi were found guilty on charges of terrorism and murder for [...]
15 March 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
ICC/Georgia: “Because of Ukraine everything changed”
Nika Jeiranashvili has spent years lobbying the International Criminal Court to open an investigation and issue indictments regarding crimes committed during Russia’s armed intervention in Georgia in 2008. It was all in vain until [...]
14 March 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims
Colombia’s special peace tribunal is about to open three new – and perhaps final – cases. However, its decision to focus on armed actors and veer from its previous approach centred on symbolic crimes, is bringing a flurry of criti [...]
11 March 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Wayne Jordash: “It all comes down to show that Ukraine has the law on its side”
International criminal lawyer Wayne Jordash has been working in Ukraine since 2015, including with national prosecutors in charge of war crimes in Crimea and Donbass. After fleeing his home in Kyiv he is now in the Western part of [...]
10 March 2022
by AFP
ICC/Georgia: Three arrest warrants for pro-Russian officials
Six years after opening an investigation, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on March 10 requested the issuance of arrest warrants for pro-Russian officials in South Ossetia in connection with crimes committed duri [...]
10 March 2022
by Roel Frakking and Anne van Mourik
Dutch Colonial Violence and the Missing Voices of Indonesians
The Dutch continue to widely underestimate their colonial violence of the past. The publication of the hard-hitting conclusions of the Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia 1945-1950-program revealed the Dutc [...]
8 March 2022
by Molly Quell
Justice in Ukraine: the UN Court is facing the Russian invasion
Russia refused to appear during Monday’s emergency proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague while Ukraine argued Moscow was violating the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide and asked the court to [...]
7 March 2022
by Franck Petit
Massamba Gueye: “We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on restitutions between Africa and Europe”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Massamba Gueye Director of the Kër Leyti House of Orality and Heritage "I have no master," claims storyteller and teacher Massamba Gueye. He is proud to be part of a generation that went to univers [...]
4 March 2022
by Paula Gaviria
Getting Back to What Matters: Victim Voices and the Making of International Law (3/3)
In this third and final episode of Justice Info's series on the Peace Treaty Initiative, the author highlights the many benefits of involving victims of an armed conflict in both negotiations and peace implementation. Provided tha [...]
3 March 2022
by 66 civil society organisations signatories
ICC: civil society from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and beyond calls for more resources for the investigation in Ukraine
In this urgent appeal, which Justice Info has decided to relay, civil society organisations from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and their international partners welcome the launch of the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigati [...]
2 March 2022
by AFP
ICC: Historic State referrals accelerate opening of an investigation on Ukraine
Overnight, Ukraine's case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) became an "active investigation", eight years after the opening of a preliminary investigation in 2014. Reacting to Russia's widespread attack, 39 ICC States Part [...]
1 March 2022
by Franck Petit
What justice options for Ukraine faced with Russia’s invasion?
Two days after the outbreak of the Russian attack, Ukraine has seized the International Court of Justice. But what can international law do to sanction the aggression of one state against another in the 21st century? Interview wit [...]
28 February 2022
by Mark Freeman and Louise Mallinder
Negotiating amnesties, peace and justice: A new path (2/3)
In peace negotiations, amnesties and justice are often presented as mutually exclusive tools. In reality, amnesties are systematically on the table and should be given a 'presumption of conformity' with international law, under cl [...]
25 February 2022
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Afghanistan: Challenges of trying a war crimes veteran in The Hague
On Tuesday 22 February, the District Court of The Hague closed its latest universal jurisdiction trial, against an Afghan-Dutch national alleged to have been head of the Pul-e-Charki prison in Kabul in the 1980s. But the trial has [...]