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.
Liking genocide on Facebook
4 February 2019
by Janet H. Anderson
The social media network Facebook is 15 years old today. The role of the platform in fueling hate speech has been widely discussed recently. At the heart of it was the case of Myanmar, where Facebook was used in the campaign to fo [...]
31 January 2019
by Thijs Bouwknegt
On February 1, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court may decide if it confirms the release of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé-Goudé, who were acquitted on January 15 by a Trial Chamber. Scholar Thijs Bouwknegt goe [...]
29 January 2019
by Amy Niang
What justice is possible in a climate of impunity and in times of war? Is there an alternative to lengthy and costly procedures and imprisonment? Special courts such as the Special Criminal Court in Central African Republic (CAR) [...]
28 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The eighth witness before the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission was a man many former prisoners remembered with a smile. Babucarr Jatta had only been trained in first aid, but he was the one victims of tortu [...]
25 January 2019
by Frédéric Burnand
Catherine Marchi-Uhel: A strong signal to those committing crimes in Syria
More and more European countries, including Germany, France, Sweden and Austria, are prosecuting people for war crimes in Syria. One of the tools at their disposal is the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism created [...]
24 January 2019
by Pierre Hazan
Guantanamo: Into the heart of a judicial Frankenstein
Tortured prisoners, lawyers being spied on, redacted indictments (including for the judges), and the CIA deciding if debates should be public at Guantanamo. A recent analysis in the “Cahiers de la justice” review paints a monstrou [...]
22 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission has continued to hear high-profile testimonies from ex-members of Yahya Jammeh’s former military junta. New details on the executions that took place on 11 November 1994 were off [...]
21 January 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Rwanda: More cases in run-up to 25th genocide anniversary
In December, Belgium and France made several announcements on cases related to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Almost 25 years after the massacres that took hundreds of thousands of lives in just three months, the judicial systems o [...]
18 January 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Government accused of missing Truth Commission opportunities
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) claims to have recovered 745 million dinars for the State. But it also accuses the State of deliberately obstructing the IVD's arbitration and conciliation commission, preventing much b [...]
15 January 2019
by Maxence Peniguet and Thierry Cruvellier
Acquittal of Gbagbo and Blé Goudé: a hammering for the Prosecutor's office
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé were being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity linked to the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis. But on Ja [...]
15 January 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mali and the difficulty of seeking truth under fire
Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission is coming to the end of its three-year mandate. But it is only just starting to deploy in the regions hit by the crises that it is investigating. This is mainly because of a decl [...]
15 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) has opened its public hearings on January 7. Three former officers came to testify about their ordeal during and after the 22 July 1994 military coup. ‘We never wanted to [...]
11 January 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Valérie Cabanes: icc should recognize the crime of ecocide
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Valérie Cabanes International lawyer, defender of human rights and nature Lawyer and activist Valérie Cabanes has seen situations on all the world’s continents where people’s fundamental rights [...]
10 January 2019
by Benjamin Duerr
International crimes: Spotlight on Germany’s war crimes unit
Between 2015 and 2017 Germany’s specialised unit to prosecute international crimes has received more than 4,000 tips of potential war crimes and crimes against humanity. Numerous cases are under investigation. Most of them concern [...]
3 January 2019
by François Musseau
Did Christopher Columbus commit genocide?
In the United States, statues of the Genoese sailor have been torn down and Columbus Day renamed. Christopher Columbus is now considered responsible for the extermination of the Amerindians. Spanish historians denounce American "h [...]
20 December 2018
by Francesca Lessa
In the Footprints of Operation Condor
How to respond to terror that knows no borders? For forty years, at least 25 criminal investigations into the transnational crimes of South America’s Operation Condor have unfolded in the domestic courts of seven countries. France [...]
20 December 2018
by Jeremie Bracka
Truth or Dare in the Middle East?
There is a growing body of scholarship and practice that recognises local truth recovery projects during ongoing conflict. Across the globe, civil society has developed creative and engaging efforts to expose the past in various h [...]
18 December 2018
by Luke Svasti
Rohingya: A genocide a century in the making
While the Rohingya crisis has reached unprecedented levels of harm, it is often attributed to, and publicly understood, as a consequence of Myanmar’s limiting 1982 citizenship law. This short paper argues that the crisis isn’t sim [...]