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.
Can 8,9 million victims have a say in Colombia’s transitional justice?
4 February 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The way Kankuamo Indians got together two weeks ago, in northern Colombia, to review videos in which military described extra-judicial executions gives an insight into the challenges of victim participation ahead of the first Spec [...]
3 February 2020
by Fin-Jasper Langmack
18 years after the official end of the civil war in Sierra Leone, its reparation program is in trouble. While the international community provided much support in the beginning, the program is now largely left to itself. Fin [...]
31 January 2020
by Megan Manion
On December 11, the International Criminal Court partially confirmed charges against two former leaders of one of the main armed groups in the Central African Republic. But the ICC’s approach to accountability perpetuates a versio [...]
30 January 2020
by Patsy Athanase
The sole survivor of a vicious attack perpetrated in 1983 by a group of army personnel, Bryan Charles Victor, took the stand for two hours on January 13, 2020, at the Seychelles Truth Commission, for an emotional testimony that sh [...]
30 January 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Uncomfortable Justice with Lisa Clifford and her "Militia Man"
Please take a seat and switch off your mobile phones. This week, our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts invite you with this new podcast to watch a movie in one of the International Criminal Court (ICC) dark rooms. A story of dou [...]
28 January 2020
by Franck Petit
Indigenous Peoples: The Norwegian Truth Commission's timid first steps
Truth commissions for indigenous peoples are growing, not copying but inspired by each other. After Canada and Greenland, and as Finland decides to do the same, Norway is dealing with its heavy past and trying to reconcile with it [...]
27 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When imams opposed “the leader of the people of faith”
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has resumed its public hearings. It has heard testimonies of clerics who dared challenging former president Yahya Jammeh, after he was declared a religious leader by a subs [...]
24 January 2020
by Patsy Athanase
Seychelles: He was a blabbermouth, then we never heard of him
Between 6 and 17 January the Seychelles’ Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission heard cases of alleged murders and disappearances, including that of Gilbert Morgan, who left the bar of a hotel to meet a friend and was [...]
23 January 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
DRC: Is there genocide in Ituri?
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is expected on Thursday in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri. On January 10, the UN published a report saying there was a possible genocide being perpetrated agai [...]
21 January 2020
by Francesca Lessa
Operation Condor: The responsibility of the middle rank
On December 27, Italian judges released the legal grounds behind a judgment in the Operation Condor trial that made history last July. A court of appeal in Rome had overturned numerous acquittals and sentenced 24 South American de [...]
20 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe and Thierry Cruvellier
Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Essa Faal Legal Counsel of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resumes its public hearings on January 20. For one [...]
17 January 2020
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African Republic: Day of reckoning for Bangassou militia chiefs
This is one of the most eagerly awaited trials of crimes committed in the Central African Republic since the crisis of 2013. The trial of several anti-Balaka militia leaders, including Pino Pino and Béré Béré, opened in Bangui on [...]
16 January 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission archives
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
Angola: The Pandora Box of “Embracing and Forgiving”
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
Why targeting cultural heritage is a war crime
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
One year of truth-telling in the Gambia
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 [...]