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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.

Tunisia Truth Commission highlights four arms of oppression
18 December 2018 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission will officially conclude its work at the end of this year. At a closing conference on December 14 and 15 in Tunis, the Commission began revealing its findings on the repressive machine of the [...]
Reparative justice in Colombia: a role for armed non-state actors?
17 December 2018 by Olivia Herman
The field of transitional justice has expanded its horizons beyond the early transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, to include transitions from non-international conflicts to peace. In such contexts, there is a need to ad [...]
International crimes: spotlight on France’s war crimes unit
17 December 2018 by Franck Petit
Universal jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute any person for serious crimes committed anywhere in the world, is in the frontline of some prosecution strategies, notably with regard to crimes committed in Syria. In Pa [...]
Money Matters at the ICC
14 December 2018 by Janet H. Anderson
Despite the arrest of a suspect two weeks before the opening of the Assembly of State Parties, and another this week, the International Criminal Court did not receive the budget increase it has asked. And some member states used t [...]
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13 December 2018 by Igor Acko
Op Ed: Special Court and ICC must cooperate closely in the Central African Republic The Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic presented on December 4 its prosecution strategy, without giving precise information. But the country’s ordinary courts are already working and the International Cri [...]
13 December 2018 by Mark Freeman
Alex Boraine - In Memoriam Alex Boraine, the former vice-president of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, died on December 5. To many, he was a “giant” of what came to be known as transitional justice. Mark Freeman, the Executive Director of [...]
13 December 2018 by Giulio Pagano
No rights without truth: protecting relatives of desaparecidos This post examines the protection that Inter American jurisprudence has afforded to the juridical personality of the relatives of desaparecidos in their quest for truth about the forced disappearance. Article 3 of the In [...]
12 December 2018 by Diana Carrillo-González
Peacebuilding among jurisdictions in Colombia The Special Jurisdiction for Peace and indigenous peoples have the opportunity to create intercultural methodologies towards peacebuilding. To that end, three principles must be introduced: ethnic legal assistance, intercultural/i [...]
12 December 2018 by AFP
The ICC doubles down on Central African Republic Two arrests in three weeks: the International Criminal Court makes a spectacular comeback in Central African Republic. Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, a former “national general coordinator” of the anti-balaka militia, was arrested in [...]
10 December 2018 by Claude Sengenya
Denis Mukwege's interview: “Sacrificing justice for peace has brought neither” This year’s joint Nobel Peace Prize winners, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a survivor of Daesh sexual slavery in Iraq, today receive their prestigious award in Oslo. In an interview conducted in Bukavu on Novembe [...]
7 December 2018 by Sophal Ear, Nushin Sarkarati and Daniel McLaughlin
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal Must be Allowed to Finish its Work The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, is confronted to a strategic, legal and political challenge: to try and hold more trials, or to close shop. The issue has divided t [...]
6 December 2018 by Claude Sengenya
Documentary in the Congo of Doctor Justice On December 10, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege will officially receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, alongside Nadia Murad, a Yezidi survivor of wartime rape in Iraq. For nearly 20 years Mukwege, a 63-year-old gynaecologist, has [...]
5 December 2018 by Ludovica Iaccino
Phil Clark: The ICC has been used as a weapon against opponents JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Phil Clark Reader in Comparative and International Politics at London’s SOAS University After a multi-year field research in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Australian scholar [...]
3 December 2018 by Janet H. Anderson
ICC: What’s on the menu for 2019 The Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court opens its annual session on December 5 in The Hague. Here are the main topics and issues that will be discussed. They give a hint of the Office of the Prosecutor’s [...]
3 December 2018 by George Wright
Is it time to wrap up the Khmer Rouge tribunal? The Cambodian government has stated its position clearly: no more trials before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. International and national co-investigative judges issued a split decision that divides the cour [...]
30 November 2018 by Julia Crawford
What’s behind the rise of evidence-gathering bodies Two experts discuss a new trend in international criminal justice: the setting-up of evidence-gathering bodies by the United Nations when other, immediate, accountability options are lacking. Are they a replacement for a larger fa [...]
29 November 2018 by Claude Sengenya
DR Congo: Sheka trial opens amidst uncertainty A Congolese military court on November 27 started the trial of Tabo Ntaberi, known as “Sheka”, founder and former leader of Nduma Defence of the Congo (NDC), a rebel militia active in North Kivu province. He is charged with crimes [...]
27 November 2018 by Thierry Cruvellier
Rithy Panh: living the experience of genocide in body and soul JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Rithy Panh Cambodian film maker and survivor of Khmer Rouge crimes After the conviction of the last two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity Rithy Panh, who sur [...]
26 November 2018 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mali: Should there be amnesty or not? In Mali, human rights activists are demanding withdrawal of a draft law on “national understanding” which would grant amnesty to perpetrators of crimes linked to the 2012 rebellion. But the government says it will not back down, a [...]