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.
ICC: a look back at the last Assembly of the States Parties
26 January 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
With this new podcast, you will be able to look back at the latest Assembly of States Parties, that you may have missed or followed with a little too much distance, due to the pandemic, thanks to two keen International Criminal Co [...]
26 January 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Last December, the International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the list of countries her office had set as priorities. Which preliminary examinations are prolonged as such, which ones are turned into full inve [...]
25 January 2021
by Gaël Grilhot
After being arrested in the Central African Republic on January 20, Mahamat Saïd was transferred last night to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The story of this veteran Central African rebel spans more than a decade [...]
21 January 2021
by AFP
It is "a process of recognition" but "there is no question of repentance" and "apologising", said the office of the French president. On 20 January, Emmanuel Macron received a report by the historian Benjamin Stora on the colonisa [...]
21 January 2021
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Victims Fund: Who’s responsible for its failure? (Everybody)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 5 As shown in previous articles, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has not delivered on its mandate. By 2020, less than 300 victims have received reparations in only one ICC [...]
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21 January 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
The failure of the ICC Victims Fund
For more than 15 years, the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has constantly reviewed its plans, strategy and modus operandi. The result is a clear failure. Its budget is opaque. Its concrete actions [...]
19 January 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
How Biden’s America can reverse its course on international justice
On January 20, Joe Biden becomes the president of the United States. Stanford University professor Beth van Schaack was Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (now Global Criminal Justice) under the Obama administ [...]
18 January 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear from former members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Torture, extortion, fabrication of evidence, interference with the judiciary and with electi [...]
15 January 2021
by Suzanne Adner
China’s Uighurs and the long march of justice
On December 14, 2020, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court declared inadmissible or insufficient the request for an investigation filed by organizations of the Muslim minority Uighurs. They accuse the Chinese governm [...]
14 January 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Wounded of the Revolution still struggle 10 years on
Ten years after the Tunisian Revolution on January 14, 2011, the authorities still have not published the official list of wounded and martyrs of this event. About a dozen of them have been organizing a sit-in in Tunis since Decem [...]
12 January 2021
by Patsy Athanase
The Seychelles’ Truth Commission, the year ahead
The Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission resumed its public hearings between November 9 and December 11, after a three-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the general elections. A break during which th [...]
11 January 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough
Ousman Sowe is the current director of the once feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the Gambia. In the early 2000's, he was the NIA head of investigations. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission he cl [...]
8 January 2021
by Habib Nassar
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The mountain that gave birth to a mouse
Last month, the Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) pronounced its first sentence since its creation 13 years ago. Lebanese lawyer and activist Habib Nassar has closely monitored the STL since its inception. He describe [...]
7 January 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s Truth Commission navigated a pandemic year
Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission had to reinvent itself in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Having had to scrap its public hearings, it has rolled out an impressive array of live-streamed conversations, podcasts, T [...]
5 January 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Gilbert Naccache, a Crystal memory
Jewish political dissident Gilbert Naccache long suffered repression and anti-Semitic attacks from the authorities and his fellow Tunisians. This left-wing activist, a former political prisoner and considered by some to be "a monu [...]
4 January 2021
by Julia Crawford
Australia launches unprecedented war crimes probe
The new Office of the Special Investigator is to start work on January 4. Its job is to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. No member of the Australian armed forces has been prosec [...]
17 December 2020
by Grace Matsiko
ICC Trust Fund: "A good day today is better than a bad day tomorrow" (Uganda)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 4 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has fun [...]
16 December 2020
by Lisa Clifford
ICC Trust Fund: "Something to wipe away the tears of victims" (DRC)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 3 The Germain Katanga trial stands as a concrete example of what reparations may mean at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Journalist Lisa Clifford was in the village of Bogoro back in 2017 wh [...]
14 December 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why the Koblenz trial is an exception?
In the field of universal jurisdiction, successes are rare and deserve to be closely watched, as Justice Info does in a first video of its brand new series IN CAMERA, released today - for the Koblenz trial, the first criminal tria [...]