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.
Why Colombia’s TRC lacks business support
31 July 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
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
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
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
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 [...]
21 July 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Ayachi Hammami: “There’s been mismanagement of time” in Tunisia’s transitional justice
When he was appointed head of the Ministry of Human Rights and Relations with Constitutional Bodies and Civil Society in February 2020, lawyer and activist Ayachi Hammami promised to publish the final report of the Truth and Digni [...]
20 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: when Jammeh was driving at break-neck speed
Not only does former president of Gambia Yahya Jammeh love cars, but he is remembered for his high-speed convoys. In the second week of July, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission began probing into the ex-ruler's c [...]
17 July 2020
by Thomas Guerber
What the U.S. and Europe can learn from police reform around the world
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in the USA, many countries are currently facing protests against police brutality and calls for police reform. A few key principles and challenges have been identified through decades of ex [...]
16 July 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Trabelsi “slave” faces former masters
On 2 July, the specialized chamber in Tunis heard defendants in the case of Rachida Kouki, a housemaid who worked for the family of the nephew of Leila Trabelsi Ben Ali, the former First Lady. Rachida Kouki's former bosses are acc [...]
14 July 2020
by AFP
Mali: a second jihadist trial opens at the ICC
Today marks the symbolic opening in The Hague of the trial of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, the second Malian jihadist prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for war crimes and crimes against human [...]
14 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever
It was a marathon testimony. Over three days David Colley, the longest serving director general of the infamous Mile 2 prison, appeared before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia. Colley’s time is rememb [...]
13 July 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Covid-19 can derail reparations in Colombia’s Amazon
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating the entire Amazon basin, just as one of Colombia’s most ambitious redress programs for indigenous victims in this remote rainforest region is poised to kick off. A program that is the result of [...]
10 July 2020
by Hariz Halilovich
The Srebrenica genocide has changed me and my generation
As the world commemorates the July 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnian-Australian scholar Hariz Halilovich reflects on how this defining event of the war in Bosnia has become a part of his personal and collective memory and ident [...]
9 July 2020
by Srđan Šušnica
The legacy of Srebrenica and the bitter victories of genocide
25 years ago, about 8,000 men were murdered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. This was the largest massacre in post-WWII Europe. The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled it was genocide. [...]
7 July 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
25 years after Srebrenica, assessing justice and genocide denial
This July 11 marks a quarter century since the massacre of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the eve of the commemorations, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts are exposing the li [...]
7 July 2020
by Tjitske Lingsma
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Billion dollar trial
15 years of investigations, 970 million dollars at a minimum, no prisoner, and still no verdict. The first terrorism judgment before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, announced for mid-May, has been postponed to an unknown date. O [...]
6 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Tambadou quits: Will Gambia’s transition stay on course?
Abubakarr Tambadou, Gambia’s Minister of Justice, resigned on June 25 to join a United Nations international tribunal. Tambadou has been a driving force behind the transitional justice process in his country and its strongest advo [...]
3 July 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The next ICC prosecutor: States “wanted something new”
Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts are on top of things this week. The whole Twitter sphere was in shock two days ago when the Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released its s [...]