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.
Sexual abuse in the Church: Is it a crime against humanity?
10 September 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
Faced with the slow reactions of the Catholic Church and States, some wish to go further on punishing sexual abuse in the Church. Given its gravity and extent over time as well as across the world, they think a qualification as a [...]
8 September 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
With tens of thousands of victims worldwide over several decades, sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church is an unprecedented issue of justice. In order to reveal and confront the magnitude of the crimes, many transitional [...]
7 September 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
All was going according to schedule at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Public hearings were suspended for the second time last month. An extension of the Comm [...]
4 September 2020
by Antoine Audouard
Duch, the last silence of the torturer
In the aftermath of the death of Douch, a former Khmer Rouge torturer convicted of crimes against humanity, French writer Antoine Audouard examines crime and punishment, the often insoluble questions posed by the journey of a murd [...]
3 September 2020
by Thierry Cruvellier
Duch, a symbol to the bitter end
Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his revolutionary nickname Duch, died in Phnom Penh on September 2. The former director of the infamous prison S-21 under Pol Pot's regime had become the unwilling symbol of the mass crime committed [...]
1 September 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
The man who brought Raslan to Germany
In the Koblenz trial on Syrian state torture, the former secret service officer Anwar Raslan is accused of crimes against humanity. In 2014, he had arrived in Germany with the help of Riad Seif, one of Syria’s most prominent oppos [...]
31 August 2020
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Martine Lind Krebs
Activists demand mental decolonization in Greenland
This summer’s surge of activism against colonial statues also affected Greenland. Is removing a colonial statue an erasure of the past, or does keeping it indicate that memories of colonial violence have been erased? This was the [...]
28 August 2020
by Olivier Truc
Swedish truth commissions on the way
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Tornedalians, another Truth Commission project for the Sámi: Sweden is getting ready to confront its past and present with regard to the fate of its minorities. Against a backdrop of l [...]
27 August 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza and Claude Sengenya
Bled by armed groups, Congo’s Virunga Park wants justice
Armed groups that have been roaming eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for decades are known for killing and raping civilians. But they are also responsible for environmental crimes of ever-growing proportions, particularl [...]
25 August 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Uribe vs transitional justice
Former president Alvaro Uribe, Colombia’s most powerful politician and a staunch opponent to the 2016 peace deal, was placed under house early this month for alleged witness tampering. He is retaliating by attacking two crucial ju [...]
24 August 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
The good and bad manners of Nigeria towards the ICC
Nigeria is no doubt the African state that sent the strongest message supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the American president announced sanctions against it on June 11. But many say Nigeria is not fulfilling [...]
3 August 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
The best of Justice Info (2019-2020)
Justice Info is taking a summer break and will resume publishing on August 24. In the meantime, we bring you a selection of our best articles over the last year. The selection is based firstly on your choice – the most read articl [...]
31 July 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Why Colombia’s TRC lacks business support
Two major oil companies presented, on July 30, 2020, a report to Colombia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documenting more than 3,600 attacks on oil infrastructures during the armed conflict. A rare exception, while since i [...]
30 July 2020
by Caitlin Reiger
Australia’s first truth commission: transitional justice to face colonial legacies
In Australia, calls for treaty, truth-telling and historical justice have a long and chequered history. And when Black Lives Matter protests spilled onto the streets of Australian cities, and numbers of non-Aboriginal Australians [...]
29 July 2020
by Yuvraj Joshi
Let’s add affirmative action to the transitional justice "toolkit"
Those looking to implement traditional transitional justice measures in the United States must first understand the country’s leading transitional measure over the past half-century-affirmative action, explains Yuvraj Joshi. For m [...]
28 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh's magic anti-AIDS potion did not exist
Yahya Jammeh claimed he would rule Gambia for a billion years. The head of State also claimed he would treat a range of diseases including asthma, infertility and HIV/AIDS. The later “treatment”, which started in 2007, is now bein [...]
27 July 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian torture trial in Germany: Insiders without protection
In the Koblenz trial on Syrian state torture, the first insider witnesses have appeared before the German judges. Two former secret service civil servants had given incriminating testimonies to the police, but in court they were m [...]
24 July 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium’s colonial past: ten experts to set the scene
It will be a “special commission” - not a commission of inquiry or a truth commission - that is to look into Belgium’s colonial past in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Parliament officially created this commission on July 16. Nineteen [...]