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.
War, law and biodiversity: a race against time
6 November 2020
by Kira Walker
November 6 is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Biodiversity is in free fall globally, declining faster than at any other moment in human history. Current global ef [...]
6 November 2020
by Una Hajdari
This is the first time a sitting president surrenders to an international court. Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi resigned around noon Thursday November 5, after announcing that his indictment was confirmed by the Kosovo Specialist C [...]
5 November 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia dropped a bombshell, last month, claiming responsibility over the murders of three high-profile public officials in the 1990s. As missing truths begin emerging, they’re testing whe [...]
3 November 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
In a country riddled with corruption, Congolese military justice appears to have set an example by convicting soldiers found guilty of serious crimes. This is nevertheless marred by failure to implement reparation orders, accordin [...]
2 November 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Junglers were the two main weapons of Yahya Jammeh’s regime in Gambia. In the past two weeks, the country’s Truth Commission hearings on the NIA have provided a rare insight into the [...]
29 October 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
The Yazidi trial in Germany: How to prove genocide in a single case?
Little attention has been paid to a trial in Germany that could yet be the first to recognize as genocide the crime committed by Daesh against Iraq’s Yazidis. With one eyewitness, no dead body and a previous conviction in Iraq, th [...]
27 October 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How does the ICC Al Hassan trial start, and for whom?
Al Hassan, a former member of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, is the second Malian jihadist on trial at the International Criminal Court, six thousand kilometres away from the scene of the war crimes and crimes against humanity he [...]
27 October 2020
by Una Hajdari
Welcome to Kosovo’s judicial battleground
A damaging leak of documents on criminal investigations followed by three swift arrests: in the space of a couple of weeks in September, the work of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a hybrid tribunal based in The Netherlands, has t [...]
26 October 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia
Dr Tamsir Mbowe, a former Health Minister, was a highly expected witness before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. In 2007 he was the director of former president Yahya Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme [...]
22 October 2020
by Thijs Bouwknegt
ICC: Last chance to de-quarantine justice for Mali
In the trial of Al Hassan, a former member of the Islamic police in Mali, evidence before the International Criminal Court has been vastly hidden from the public. Even Western expert witnesses are now granted anonymity and closed [...]
22 October 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Your view on Justice Info - Our big 2020 survey
We are constantly seeking to make Justice Info better, both in substance and form. Many projects are in the making for 2021 and you can help us to implement them. Which ones should we select? What should be our priorities? How can [...]
22 October 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Your view on Justice Info - Our 2020 survey, little by little
In order to further improve Justice Info, many projects are in the making for 2021 and you can help us to implement them. Your opinion is key. Getting to know you better is also important. If you are running out of time, we have s [...]
22 October 2020
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
In Mali, Al Hassan trial provokes both fear and indifference
Hearings in the "Al Hassan" trial resumed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on October 13. While the ICC and some NGOs attach particular importance to this trial, the reaction of local populations is much more [...]
20 October 2020
by Franck Petit
Eric Emeraux: "Terrorism and hate crimes have made international crimes part of our daily lives"
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Éric Émeraux Former head of the French Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity For three years, Colonel Eric Emeraux headed France’s Office to Fight Crimes against Humanity, [...]
19 October 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die"
On October 12, public hearings resumed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission after a two-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. More doctors and lab technicians have come to testify on the fanciful – [...]
16 October 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombians pressure FARC into admitting child soldiers
Last month, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – known as JEP – has decided to allow public preliminary hearings. This has helped former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to be more forthcoming about the [...]
15 October 2020
by Joe Binguimatchi and Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Special Court detentions shrouded in secrecy
This is an unprecedented situation in international justice. Officially, about fifteen suspects are in pre-trial detention at the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic. But this mixed court with national and inter [...]
13 October 2020
by Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
The missing truth in Cyprus
For up to 60 years, Greek and Turkish Cypriot families of persons who disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s have waited for the truth to be established. Created in 1981 but operational only since 2006, the Committee on Missing person [...]
12 October 2020
by Julia Emtseva
Philanthrocapitalism, transitional justice and the need for accountability
Early October, Mellon Foundation, the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States, announced its biggest initiative ever: to spend 250 million dollars on monuments. The goal of this memorialization program is to allow the [...]