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.
Do we need an international tribunal for Islamic State?
26 August 2019
by Julia Crawford
An international tribunal to try foreign fighters of Islamic State (IS) is an idea being discussed by some European States, led by Sweden. But Syrian human rights activists say any international court for Syria should try all part [...]
2 August 2019
by JusticeInfo.net
In August 2019, JusticeInfo is taking a pause for three weeks. Resumption of publications on August 26th. In the meantime, we have compiled a digest of our best articles, in our eyes and according to our readers, since the beginni [...]
1 August 2019
by Galuh Wandita
In July a second public hearing took place before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Indonesian province of Aceh. This Commission was created by a local law after ten years of mobilization by victims. Centered on the v [...]
30 July 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
One year after he came into office, Colombia’s president Iván Duque has failed to directly modify a central institution of the transitional justice process, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known as JEP. But the legal offensive [...]
29 July 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Climate law moves from human to nature-centred rights
Since the legal victory of the environmental NGO Urgenda against the Dutch state in June 2015, there has been an increase in the number of legal actions around the world to force states to take action against climate change. To wh [...]
26 July 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC
There seem to be no limit to what will be revealed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This week, the first three members of former president Yahya Jammeh’s infamous hit squad – the Junglers – [...]
25 July 2019
by Tjitske Lingsma
First Dutch Islamic State fighter convicted for war crimes
For the first time a court in The Netherlands has convicted a Dutch-born former Islamic State fighter for war crimes. The case follows a trend in European countries, where the prosecution is using social media material as evidence [...]
23 July 2019
by Franck Petit
Jean-Pierre Massias: “The Canadian commission is a new model for transitional justice”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Jean-Pierre Massias Professor of public law at the University of Pau and president of the Institut francophone pour la justice et la démocratie Indigenous peoples' access to transitional justice [...]
22 July 2019
by Maud Sarliève
International criminal justice fails to meet the challenge of environmental crimes
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (4/4) Should massive deforestation be considered a crime? The destruction of tropical forests carries with it not only the destruction of the peoples they support, but also the destruction of human [...]
19 July 2019
by Luke Moffett
Reparations at the ICC: can it really serve as a model?
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (3/4) Reparations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be seen as an afterthought at the end of trial or, more cynically, as an incentive for victims to testify and support the work of the [...]
18 July 2019
by Jelena Aparac
Is criminal responsibility of companies the next focus for international justice?
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (2/4) So far, States and courts have largely freed companies from direct or indirect responsibility for international crimes. Ending this impunity would restore the balance of power between resourc [...]
16 July 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Drumbl: "Law cannot solve the biggest problems we face"
SPECIAL WORLD DAY OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE (1/4) JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Drumbl Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University For twenty years, scholar Mark Drum [...]
15 July 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh”
It is the turn of journalists to be heard by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. In 22 years, 140 incidents of arrests and 15 arbitrary closures of media houses were recorded. There were cases of to [...]
12 July 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg and Amra Zejneli
Kosovo Specialist Chambers: gearing up for uncomfortable truths?
Everything seems to be in place for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers to issue its first indictment, four years after it was established. Investigations have gone for years, dozens of people have been interviewed in The Hague, where [...]
11 July 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier + Mustapha K. Darboe
Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?
Before speaking on behalf of the victims of serious crimes as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda faithfully served, in the highest judicial offices, a military dictatorship in her country, the Gam [...]
9 July 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg with Claude Sengenya
Ntaganda’s conviction, a sweeping win for the ICC Prosecutor
The conviction of Bosco Ntaganda, a former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on July 8 comes as a relief for the Court’s prosecutor. It is also hailed as a victory for th [...]
8 July 2019
by Claude Sengenya
Arrest warrant for Congolese militia leader raises concern and suspicion
On June 7, the North Kivu Military Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant against rebel leader Shimirayi Mwisha Guidon, leader of an important militia group in this region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The C [...]
5 July 2019
by Barbora Hola
Early release of ICTR convicts: the practice beyond the outrage
For years, hardly anyone paid much attention to issues of incarceration, rehabilitation, release and reintegration of convicted génocidaires by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Until a year ago when the gover [...]