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.
Colombia’s transitional justice: Mission impossible?
23 November 2018
by Mariana Casij Peña
Two years ago, on November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) signed a revised peace agreement that brought the armed conflict to an end. Both parties agreed on what is prob [...]
21 November 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s reparations and rehabilitation programme is based on consultations held by the Truth and Dignity Commission in 2017. But six weeks before the end of the Commission’s mandate, victims are protesting against the exclusion [...]
20 November 2018
by Grace Matsiko
The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of Uganda’s rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been adjourned to February 2019, only two days after it started. This has caused unease among the victims of the two-decade a [...]
17 November 2018
by AFP
Alfred Yekatom, a former militia leader turned member of parliament, was swiftly transferred to The Hague on November 17. He is likely to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Four years after the International C [...]
16 November 2018
by George Wright
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide
Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the last two remaining leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer rouge regime, were found guilty of genocide against either the Cham people or the Vietnamese, or both, as well as numerous crimes against humanity. Th [...]
15 November 2018
by Marie Guiraud
Cambodia: Learning lessons from victims’ participation
The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia has offered victims unprecedented participation in an international trial. But what did they really experience, apart from a few heroic witnesses called to testify? How much do we really care a [...]
13 November 2018
by David Chandler
Cambodia: What will be left of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal?
On November 16, the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh will deliver its most important judgment against the last two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are prosecuted for genocide, crimes against [...]
13 November 2018
by Grace Matsiko
LRA’s victims: “We ask those handling this case not to delay it again”
The trial of the former operations commander of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo begun on November 12 in the country’s Northern town of Gulu, once the epicenter of the group’s armed activit [...]
10 November 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Uganda faces first test with Kwoyelo LRA trial
In Uganda, the trial of former LRA rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo is set to start on Monday November 12 in the northern town of Gulu. Kwoyelo, who has been in detention since 2009, is the first person to be brought before a specia [...]
9 November 2018
by Wayne Jordash
Rohingya: Why the ICC was right and what it must do
Wayne Jordash is one of the most experienced lawyers before international criminal tribunals. He is back from the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh where he met some of the victims he represents in a potential case before the I [...]
8 November 2018
by Stephanie van den Berg
Gbagbo: Is there a case to answer?
The trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo resumes next week before the International Criminal Court. The Defence is trying to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence. And the judges seem to wonder about the prosecu [...]
7 November 2018
by Andrew Ianuzzi, Richard J Rogers and Heather Ryan
Sri Lanka : a threat to reconciliation and accountability
On October 26, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was appointed as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. For the Monitoring and Accountability Panel, this political come-back risks undermining the limited progress made in transitional just [...]
6 November 2018
by Ludovica Iaccino
Fanie du Toit: “Religious extremism is discredited amongst most Iraqis”
Fanie du Toit, former executive director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa, is the technical advisor of a United Nations project, ‘Support for Integrated Reconciliation in Iraq’, that tries since 2016 [...]
5 November 2018
by Claire Bargelès
Gambia: criminal cases advance slowly for dictatorship crimes
In Gambia, as well as the launch of a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission to shed light on human rights abuses during Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule, there are also advances on the criminal justice front, both at home an [...]
1 November 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
Burundi: A Truth Commission as political diversion
A new law adopted by Burundi’s parliament on October 25 prolongs the mandate of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for four years and extends it to cover the colonial period from 1885. It will thus give the governme [...]
30 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Freeman: how you can negotiate justice and peace
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Freeman Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) From June 2014 to December 2015, Mark Freeman was one of two independent experts hired by the Colombian governm [...]
29 October 2018
by Stephanie van den Berg
Damaging power struggle engulfs the former ICTY
Judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), the successor institution of the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, have become embroiled in a very public power struggle which is already impact [...]
26 October 2018
by Julia Crawford
Lundin faces prosecution for Sudan oil war abuses
Sweden’s government has given the green light for the Public Prosecutor to charge two top executives of the Stockholm-based Lundin Petroleum company for assisting suspected crimes against humanity in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 by [...]
22 October 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Special Criminal Court gets under way
The Special Criminal Court’s inaugural session in Bangui today is mainly symbolic. But it should increase pressure on this new hybrid court created 16 months ago to present its investigating strategy and start work. The ceremony c [...]