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.
In Mali, the truth commission opens the debate on reparations
25 June 2019
by Bokoum Abdoul Momini
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Mali (CVJR), initially established in January 2014 for a period of three years, started its work years late and is now continuing its work beyond the time allowed for its mandate [...]
24 June 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The sensation last week before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia was the testimony of General Alagie Martin. A fiercely loyal officer to former dictator Yahya Jammeh, he admitted torture – he calle [...]
20 June 2019
by Claude Sengenya
Nineteen years ago, from 5 -10 June 2000, the town of Kisangani in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was the scene of fighting between the armies of Rwanda and Uganda. These two countries supported different factions of [...]
18 June 2019
by Kim Thuy Seelinger
Last April, advocates against conflict-related sexual violence were consumed by frustration. A hard-line, anti-contraception and anti-abortion U.S. government had forced the United Nations Security Council to silence an essential [...]
17 June 2019
by Julia Crawford
Could the ICC address human trafficking as an international crime?
While reports appeared of migrants in Libyan detention centres being abused and sold into slavery, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said in 2016 and 2017 that human trafficking could be a new priority for t [...]
14 June 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Being on Gambia’s TV without knowing it: Life of an opponent under Jammeh
Public hearings before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission have resumed on June 10 in Gambia. This week’s hearings were devoted to the fate of members of the main political opposition party. Including Amadou Sanne [...]
13 June 2019
by Christine Tshibuyi (in Kinshasa) and Ephrem Rugiririza
Congo/ICC: Germain Katanga’s double sentence
Former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga has served his sentence handed down by the International Criminal Court (ICC). But for the last three years, he has been under prosecution in Kinshasa in a new trial that has not rea [...]
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12 June 2019
by JusticeInfo.net
Time for the truth in Gambia
Since January 2019, Gambians have been glued to the public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This commission was established to shed light on human rights violations committed durin [...]
11 June 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Who are the key players at Gambia’s Truth Commission
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has resumed its public hearings on June 10. Since January the TRRC has heard 57 witnesses in sessions that were particularly eventful and truth-revealing. It has become a m [...]
6 June 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: A year of trials under pressure
On May 29, Tunisia’s criminal courts specialized in transitional justice marked their first year of work. About 20% of the expected cases have started. But this comes in a context of strong hostility from the Interior Ministry and [...]
4 June 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s transition: Expensive justice for a poor, little country
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia runs a 2,8 million dollars budget for 2019. It is part of a larger effort in transitional justice programs that costs a lot in this poor country. One of the surpri [...]
3 June 2019
by AFP
A controversial genocide against Canadian indigenous women
A report released on June 3 describes as "genocide" the deaths of more than 1200 indigenous women murdered or disappeared in Canada between 1980 and 2012. The Canadian Prime Minister accepted the conclusions of this report, which [...]
3 June 2019
by Sètondji Roland Adjovi
Can the victims of the Habré regime still get reparations?
Three years ago, on 30 May 2016, former Chadian President Hissène Habré was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Extraordinary African Chambers ordered the payment of significant reparations, but since then not [...]
28 May 2019
by Nika Jeiranashvili
How the ICC can still be meaningful in Georgia
Early May, representatives of different organs and sections of the International Criminal Court (ICC) visited Georgia. This is the fourth year of the ICC investigation in this country and not much is known about its whereabouts. N [...]
27 May 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
War, park rangers and the hopes of Colombia’s transitional justice
What if Colombia’s Special Peace Jurisdiction and Truth Commission investigate the environmental damages caused by conflict, from attacks on pipelines to the murder of park rangers? Environmental lawyers think that there is a uniq [...]
27 May 2019
by Tjitske Lingsma
Welcome to the ICC “Facts and figures”
ICC-facts-and-figures_data-infographic_2019_EN_@JusticeInfoTélécharger When you surf the website of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “Facts and Figures”, are you properly informed? Not really. We checked the court’s basi [...]
24 May 2019
by Kylie Thomas
South African justice reopens apartheid cases
In 2003, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had referred 300 cases to the courts. But state agents suspected of serious crimes under apartheid have hardly been prosecuted. 25 years after the end of segregationist rule, South [...]
23 May 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
The Dutch war crimes unit hits harder on Syrian suspects
On May 21, the Dutch war crimes unit announced the arrest of a former commander of the al-Nusra Front, formerly the Syrian wing of al-Qaeda. After several years of being surpassed by Germany and Sweden when it comes to prosecuting [...]
21 May 2019
by Abraham Kouassi
Côte d’Ivoire: Victims say reparations so far are not enough
The Ivorian government has provided support to the victims of violent crises in Côte d'Ivoire through the "yako", an individual financial assistance of one million CFA francs (about 1,500 euros). But in Abidjan's neighbourhoods, t [...]