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.
Malian victims to get a voice for a day
6 December 2019
by Bokar Sangaré and Ephrem Rugiririza
On December 8, a dozen victims of arbitrary arrests and detentions will tell people in Bamako about their painful experience. This will be the first public hearing of Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, which has [...]
5 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
It was perhaps the most-talked about topic in the corridors and surrounding cafés at the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, in The Hague this week. How to address climate change-related violations of human rig [...]
5 December 2019
by Maud Sarliève
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (3/3) This week, the 25th Conference of Parties, or “COP25”, begins in Madrid. Until December 13th, the 196 State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be discussing [...]
4 December 2019
by Shireen Daft
An open letter from 24 scientists, published in the journal Nature in July 2019, calls for the elaboration of a fifth Geneva Convention to protect the environment during armed conflicts. But the destruction of the environment is a [...]
3 December 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Indigenous people are winning court battles
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (2/3) The Amazonian ecosystem is under threat, yet indigenous people have been fighting for it for more than 20 years before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, winning some victor [...]
2 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What NGOs expect from the ICC annual meeting
Addressing budgetary issues, pushing for an independent expert review, finding a new prosecutor, selecting new judges (especially women), fighting back threats and sanctions by hostile states (especially the U.S.), voicing out the [...]
2 December 2019
by Jojo Mehta
Ecocide as an atrocity crime – an idea whose time is overdue
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (1/3) Ecocide, a Vietnam war ‘veteran’ concept used to describe the destruction caused by Agent Orange, is also the 5th missing element of crime of the Rome Statute, dropped from the International Crim [...]
29 November 2019
by Jean-Pierre Massias and Magalie Besse
Sexual violence persists in CAR without justice, but what form of justice is needed?
Widespread impunity prevailing in the Central African Republic applies in particular to sexual and gender-based crimes, which are increasingly documented and recorded. As criminal prosecution can only be limited in the absence of [...]
28 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Gunshots in Mataba: “Neretse said we had nothing to be afraid of”
Dozens of people from the northwest Rwandan village of Mataba have travelled thousands of kilometres to testify before the Brussels criminal court trying Fabien Neretse, a man of influence in Mataba now accused of war crimes and g [...]
26 November 2019
by Justice Info
Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEEcocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis A Justice Info debate THE HAGUE, DECEMBER 3, 2019 - 6:30 PM - GRAND CAFÉ UTOPIE CONTEXT Calls for environmental justice are increasing. Along [...]
25 November 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi: the commission of divided truths
Its detractors blame its composition, mandate and way of working, starting with the selective exhumations carried out throughout the country. Established in 2014 and extended for four years in 2018, Burundi's Truth and Reconciliat [...]
22 November 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has begun to hold hearings outside Gambia’s capital city. It is touring villages where hundreds of citizens were victims in 2009 of mysterious witch hunters. Forced to drink a s [...]
21 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Killings in Nyamirambo: "Someone from Neretse's house was there!”
The Brussels Assize Court has heard, over two and a half days, witnesses to the 9 April 1994 massacre in the Nyamirambo district of Kigali, in which the accused Fabien Neretse is implicated. Ten people were shot dead that day by s [...]
20 November 2019
by Claude Sengenya
DRC: militia leader sentenced to life for crimes against humanity
After two months of trial, the verdict has been handed down. Militia leader Frederic Masudi Alimasi, aka “Koko di koko”, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday, November 19, by the military court of Bukavu (Eastern Democrat [...]
15 November 2019
by Julia Crawford
Corporate responsibility in war crimes, a new legal battlefield
NGOs suffered a big setback last week when a French court dismissed a charge against Lafarge of complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria. But they are increasingly active in trying to get companies and businessmen prosecuted [...]
14 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
I risked my life for a Tutsi, Neretse tells Belgian court
Fabien Neretse, 71, told a Brussels court this week he played no part in the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. He said he did not denounce his Tutsi neighbours in Kigali or train Interahamwe militia as he is accused, and that the pro [...]
12 November 2019
by Patsy Athanase
The Seychelles Truth Commission hears about the 1977 coup
On November 5, former president of the Seychelles islands James Michel testified about the coup d’état in which he was involved on June 5, 1977. His testimony took place before the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commissi [...]
11 November 2019
by Janet H. Anderson
Stop genocide against the Rohingya, Gambia asks the ICJ
Gambia today referred Myanmar to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocide against the Rohingya minority, on behalf of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation's 57 Muslim-majority states. The action i [...]