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 ICC in times of budget crunch
13 December 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has been joined by two new deputy prosecutors, elected last week during this year’s annual meeting of the court. But states did not step up with additional resources, so he [...]
10 December 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
UNDERSTANDING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE | Episode 2 > Law professor Fabrice Hourquebie explains this central right of victims and the restorative aspect of transitional justice. How do historical truth and judicial truth differ and [...]
10 December 2021
by Christine Chaumeau
On November 26, the Argentine judiciary decided to open an investigation into the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Since the Myanmar military’s coup on February 1, 2021, a new common fro [...]
7 December 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi
In the German city of Frankfurt, Iraqi national Taha al-J. has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of a young Yazidi girl he enslaved. It is the first time worldwide that a court convicts a member of the organization Is [...]
6 December 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Karim Khan meets the states at the ICC
Karim Khan, the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is making substantial changes to how his office works. As he attends his first Assembly of States Parties meeting, that is opening on Monday December 6, all eyes a [...]
3 December 2021
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
In Tribute to Ephrem
The editorial staff of Justice Info are in mourning after the death of our Africa editor, Ephrem Rugiririza, on Tuesday November 30 at his home in Kampala, Uganda. We publish here a tribute from one of those who knew him best in h [...]
2 December 2021
by Astri Dankertsen and Malin Arvidsson
Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom?
The Church of Sweden made an official apology to the Sámi people on 24 November, just weeks after two new truth commissions were set up to inquire into historical injustices against the Sámi in Sweden and Finland. Although differe [...]
30 November 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How to read Karim Khan's new directions
While indecision prevailed under Fatou Bensouda’s regime, who left a pile of unanswered issues on her desk, the new International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan already made a series of radical decisions in the ‘situa [...]
30 November 2021
by Elena Salgueiro
Uruguay: a law to benefit perpetrators of crimes against humanity?
Criminals around the world are using Covid-19 to try to get out of jail. In Uruguay, a group of senators is going further: they are proposing a law that would allow all convicts over 65 years of age to be placed under house arrest [...]
30 November 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
What is transitional justice?
Jean-Pierre Massias, president of IFJD and professor of law, tells how, beyond the doctrine, this field of action in the face of mass violence has been formed in a progressive and pragmatic way. How did transitional justice come a [...]
29 November 2021
by Lena Bjurström
Oil and war crimes: Swedish justice in the front line
On November 11, the president and former director of the Lundin Energy company were indicted for complicity in war crimes. The charges relate to attacks carried out against civilians between 1999 and 2003 in an area of the future [...]
26 November 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result
After months of procrastination, Gambian President Adama Barrow received, on Thursday November 25, the final report of the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). It is yet to be made public, and its recom [...]
25 November 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Lundin in Swedish court pipeline for war crimes
Last week, Sweden indicted two oil executives from Swedish oil company Lundin Energy for aiding and abetting war crimes in South Sudan between 1999 and 2003. If the trial starts next year as expected, it will be a very important m [...]
23 November 2021
by Carol Valade
Hassan Bouba: a rebel minister before the Special Court
In the Central African Republic, the Minister of Livestock and former political coordinator of the UPC rebellion was arrested and charged on Friday, November 19, with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Criminal [...]
22 November 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
French Justice Returns to Rwanda
For the third time, a trial is opening in France against a Rwandan accused of participating in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. The case of Claude Muhayimana, a lowly hotel driver, will take the court back to the massacres in the [...]
19 November 2021
by Janet Anderson
Venezuela and the ICC: who’s fooling who?
On November 5, the new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan announced that he will launch an investigation into crimes against humanity in Venezuela, and signed an agreement with its government. Has the prosec [...]
18 November 2021
by Julia Crawford
War in Ethiopia: What chance of justice for serious crimes?
A recent UN report said serious crimes had been committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict by all sides, including neighbouring Eritrea which is allied with the government. It refers to potential war crimes and crimes against humanit [...]
16 November 2021
by Chandni Dhingra
Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada
The recent discovery of anonymous graves at former Canadian residential schools has reopened the debate on the response to redress for crimes against indigenous peoples. The various transitional justice mechanisms that have been p [...]