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.
Social conflicts: A new field for transitional justice?
9 October 2020
by Jean-Pierre Massias
In France, miners unfairly sacked 70 years ago are being rehabilitated and their descendants compensated. Across the Channel, the Scottish government is considering public pardons for miners convicted during the big strikes of the [...]
8 October 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
MPs worried about the magnitude of their task, experts challenged by some associations but apparently united and enthusiastic: they were all there for the first public session of the Special Commission on Belgium’s colonial past o [...]
6 October 2020
by Cira Palli-Aspero
Societies emerging from conflict are often left rooted in a complex ground of competing narratives, transforming the past into a space of contestation. The work of the Historical Memory Group, operative from 2007 to 2011 in Colomb [...]
6 October 2020
by Thierry Ogier
During the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), Volkswagen denounced several trade unionists and communist militants who were then arrested and tortured by security agents. Following an out-of-court agreement between victi [...]
5 October 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Kosovo’s court wake-up call
The “zombie court” of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a Hague-based technically national but truly international tribunal with nothing much to show five years after its creation, has resuscitated last week with three arrests [...]
5 October 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian transitional justice in danger, warns civil society
The new government’s contested appointments and unclear positions on transitional justice have put this process at risk again, say civil society and victims who have been demonstrating in front of the executive office since the be [...]
2 October 2020
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan: After peace, transitional justice?
Darfur-Peace-Agreement_justice-responsibility-reconciliation_@JusticeInfoTélécharger There is to be a signing ceremony on October 3 in the South Sudanese capital Juba of a peace deal aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict [...]
1 October 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
Kabuga’s transfer to the Mechanism: Is it the right thing to do?
The surprise arrest in May of an old Rwandan man, soon after the end of lockdown in a chic Paris suburb, is having knock-on consequences. High-profile fugitive Félicien Kabuga has changed overnight the prospects of the “Mechanism” [...]
1 October 2020
by André Guichaoua
Rwanda: what’s at stake in the Kabuga trial
What are the consequences of the arrest last May in France of Félicien Kabuga, considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide? French sociologist André Guichaoua, a former expert witness for the prosecu [...]
29 September 2020
by Lena Bjurström
Syrian trials in Europe: “They give a distorted perception of the crimes perpetrated”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Uğur Üngör Professor at the NIOD Institute for war, holocaust and genocide studies in Amsterdam. Almost a decade after the revolution and the beginning of the civil war in Syria, several countri [...]
28 September 2020
by Julia Crawford
Myanmar Mechanism knocking at Naypyidaw’s door
The UN’s new evidence-gathering body on international crimes in Myanmar, launched a year ago, announced it has started to share information in the Rohingya genocide case before the International Court of Justice, including with th [...]
25 September 2020
by Stéphanie Maupas
ICC Prosecutor election: The wheeling and dealing is not yet done
The stakes are far from played out for the election of the International Criminal Court’s third prosecutor, scheduled for December at the Assembly of States Parties. At the end of June, a Committee selected four candidates. But no [...]
22 September 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What's new on the Myanmar front?
Last week, the New York Times reported that two former soldiers from the armed forces of Myanmar arrived at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague. Alleged video confessions are circulating in which they not only adm [...]
22 September 2020
by Stephanie van den Berg and Janet Anderson
Why the Dutch are threatening to take Syria to court
To the surprise and satisfaction of all those who are campaigning to hold Bashar al-Assad's regime to account, the Netherlands, best known for its appetite for consensus, has taken the first diplomatic steps towards a possible Int [...]
21 September 2020
by Marie-Laure Josselin
Marie Wilson: “It is too early to say Canada had great success with the Truth Commission”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Marie Wilson Former Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Canadian government has just put residential schools on the official list of national historic events. F [...]
17 September 2020
by Ben Saul
Exchanging killers for peace in Afghanistan - questions about a US-made amnesty
The terms of the "pax americana" in Afghanistan raise many questions. The Taliban and the United States have pressured the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners it holds. In return, the Taliban pledged to release 1, [...]
15 September 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syria: a spotlight on a bureaucracy of mass killings
A Syrian government employee has testified anonymously, last week in the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz (Germany), where two former secret service officers stand accused of crimes against humanity. He described vast mass graves, and d [...]
14 September 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: The Hall of Never Again sends out distress signals
The Hall of Never Again is one of Colombia’s best known memorials. It was conceived by victims of the civil war in Granada, a town that has become an icon of reconstruction and resilience. But the recent damage caused by a water l [...]
11 September 2020
by Gabriel Labrador
Spain rules on the murders of Jesuits in Salvador
The verdict came in the afternoon of September 11th. Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, a former Salvadoran Deputy Minister of Public Security, was found guilty of murdering six Jesuit priests, a cook and her daughter on 16 Nov [...]