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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.

Tunisian victims still suffering nine years on
16 December 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Nine years after the Tunisian revolution, which began on 17 December 2010, victims of serious human rights violations are still in great distress. Poorly coordinated care, partial compensation and lack of official recognition are [...]
Myanmar and the Rohingya momentum: what did we hear at the Peace Palace this week?
13 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
This week, in a very high-profile International Court of Justice hearing in Den Haag, Gambia asked the UN court to order Myanmar to stop what they denounced as “an ongoing genocide” of the Rohingya muslim minority. Driven by such [...]
Unpunished in Brazil, crimes against indigenous people are submitted to the ICC
13 December 2019 by Thierry Ogier
In Brazil, human rights NGOs have denounced the violations suffered by indigenous people since Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January 2019. Faced with the slowness of the country’s courts, they filed a "communication" to the Pros [...]
Draft treaty on multinationals and human rights struggles
12 December 2019 by Christophe Koessler
Encouraged by the United Nations, States in October resumed talks started five years ago for an international treaty that would oblige multinationals to respect human rights. The project is still under way, even if it is strugglin [...]
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10 December 2019 by Joseph Powderly
Does “the lady doth protest” mark the beginning of Myanmar’s reckoning? The hearings start on Tuesday, 10 December. Aung San Suu Kyi is in The Hague, to defend Myanmar against charges of genocide filed by The Gambia to protect the Rohingya before the International Court of Justice. In a bitterly ironi [...]
10 December 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: On the trail of deadly witch doctors in Jammeh’s region The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been holding public hearings in different villages in Gambia’s countryside. Trying to find out who was responsible for a witch hunt, allegedly ordered by former president Ya [...]
9 December 2019 by Janet H. Anderson
Pass the parcel at the ICC The Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court took place last week. It essentially came up with the creation of a 9-member expert committee that should present an “independent strategic review” of the court by [...]
6 December 2019 by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Karinna Fernández, and Sebastian Smart
Exposing the economic accomplices of the Chilean dictatorship Current events in Chile find their source in the Pinochet regime. The Chilean transitional justice agenda, as in many other countries, has focused on a few civil and political rights violations. Yet, focusing on the behaviour of e [...]
6 December 2019 by Bokar Sangaré and Ephrem Rugiririza
Malian victims to get a voice for a day On December 8, a dozen victims of arbitrary arrests and detentions will tell people in Bamako about their painful experience. This will be the first public hearing of Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, which has [...]
5 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ecocide and environmental crimes draw public attention at the ICC It was perhaps the most-talked about topic in the corridors and surrounding cafés at the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, in The Hague this week. How to address climate change-related violations of human rig [...]
5 December 2019 by Maud Sarliève
Climate change: How to make corporations responsible? ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (3/3) This week, the 25th Conference of Parties, or “COP25”, begins in Madrid. Until December 13th, the 196 State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be discussing [...]
4 December 2019 by Shireen Daft
Environmental destruction is (already) a war crime, but is almost impossible to commit An open letter from 24 scientists, published in the journal Nature in July 2019, calls for the elaboration of a fifth Geneva Convention to protect the environment during armed conflicts. But the destruction of the environment is a [...]
3 December 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Indigenous people are winning court battles ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (2/3) The Amazonian ecosystem is under threat, yet indigenous people have been fighting for it for more than 20 years before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, winning some victor [...]
2 December 2019 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What NGOs expect from the ICC annual meeting Addressing budgetary issues, pushing for an independent expert review, finding a new prosecutor, selecting new judges (especially women), fighting back threats and sanctions by hostile states (especially the U.S.), voicing out the [...]
2 December 2019 by Jojo Mehta
Ecocide as an atrocity crime – an idea whose time is overdue ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (1/3) Ecocide, a Vietnam war ‘veteran’ concept used to describe the destruction caused by Agent Orange, is also the 5th missing element of crime of the Rome Statute, dropped from the International Crim [...]
29 November 2019 by Jean-Pierre Massias and Magalie Besse
Sexual violence persists in CAR without justice, but what form of justice is needed? Widespread impunity prevailing in the Central African Republic applies in particular to sexual and gender-based crimes, which are increasingly documented and recorded. As criminal prosecution can only be limited in the absence of [...]
28 November 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Gunshots in Mataba: “Neretse said we had nothing to be afraid of” Dozens of people from the northwest Rwandan village of Mataba have travelled thousands of kilometres to testify before the Brussels criminal court trying Fabien Neretse, a man of influence in Mataba now accused of war crimes and g [...]
26 November 2019 by Justice Info
Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEEcocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis A Justice Info debate THE HAGUE, DECEMBER 3, 2019 - 6:30 PM - GRAND CAFÉ UTOPIE CONTEXT     Calls for environmental justice are increasing. Along [...]
25 November 2019 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi: the commission of divided truths Its detractors blame its composition, mandate and way of working, starting with the selective exhumations carried out throughout the country. Established in 2014 and extended for four years in 2018, Burundi's Truth and Reconciliat [...]