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.
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission archives
16 January 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has recently completed the transfer of its archives to the country’s National Archives. But it does not want this institution to keep the audiovisual recordings of victims and witnesses.
14 January 2020
by Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk
Last month, the Angolan government reversed its “forgive and forget” policy on past atrocities committed during the civil war that ended eighteen years ago. It now has a reconciliation plan to honour the memory of victims. But the [...]
13 January 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What a week! In the view of our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts there has never been a week with so much talk on international law in the mainstream media. Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg are back with a podcast on o [...]
13 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been the event of the year in the field of transitional justice. It provided spectacular testimonies, from senior perpetrators in particular, while departing from s [...]
9 January 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
What penalties? Colombia’s justice challenge in 2020
Three years after the peace accords were signed, Colombians still ponder what sanctions will be applied to ex-FARC and members of Armed Forces. Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace has yet to determine the precise guidelines [...]
7 January 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Truth still elusive in symbolic Barkati case
The trial of the alleged torturers and killers of Nabil Barkati, a leftwing activist tortured to death in 1987, seems to be the most advanced of the cases currently being examined by Tunisia’s specialized chambers. But although se [...]
6 January 2020
by Tjitske Lingsma
East Timor: stolen child back home from Indonesia
After 41 years Arsica was reunited with her parents. She was among more than 4,000 East Timorese children who had been forcibly removed from their families, according to East Timor’s Truth Commission, and taken illegally to Indone [...]
20 December 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Fabien Neretse is found guilty of genocide
Fabien Neretse, a former senior Rwandan civil servant, was found guilty of genocide by a Belgian court. The septuagenarian was convicted of at least eleven murders and three attempted murders, committed in Rwanda in 1994 and quali [...]
20 December 2019
by Justice Info
2019 - The international justice year in photos
Justice Info is taking a break from December 23 to January 5. But in the meantime, we bring you ten strong images from 2019. Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s money, technological innovations, environmental justice, a victory for [...]
19 December 2019
by Julia Crawford
Myanmar: the UN body is building up, and watching
The latest evidence gathering body, located in Geneva, is for Myanmar. It is one of the United Nations’ “International, Impartial, Investigative Mechanisms”. How is this new body progressing and what can be expected of it? Justice [...]
17 December 2019
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Tricky task for Belgian jurors to judge a Rwandan for genocide
Fabien Neretse, a Rwandan accused of genocide before a Belgian court, is about to hear the judgment in his case. His fate depends on 12 laymen and women who have no knowledge about the realities of Rwanda in 1994. Scholar and form [...]
17 December 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
“I’m not sure Tunisia’s political parties will advance human rights,” says expert
Law professor and human rights activist Wahid Ferchichi is an expert on transitional justice in Tunisia. Nine years after the revolution in Tunisia and one year after the country’s Truth Commission finished its work, he analyses t [...]
16 December 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian victims still suffering nine years on
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 [...]
13 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Myanmar and the Rohingya momentum: what did we hear at the Peace Palace this week?
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 [...]
13 December 2019
by Thierry Ogier
Unpunished in Brazil, crimes against indigenous people are submitted to the ICC
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 [...]
12 December 2019
by Christophe Koessler
Draft treaty on multinationals and human rights struggles
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 [...]
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 [...]
