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.
Why the ICC should rejoice when America attacks it
18 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
In an Op-ed for The New York Times, the editor of Justice Info, Thierry Cruvellier, unfolds the meaning of the renewed attack by the U.S. national security adviser John Bolton against the International Criminal Court (ICC). What's [...]
17 September 2018
by Pierre Hazan
To what extent should we take down statues, change the names of streets, towns and mountains when they bear the names of people who contributed to human misery? The spectacular removal in Charlottesville, US, of a statue of Genera [...]
13 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
More than a century after massacres of indigenous people in former German South West Africa, now Namibia, their descendants and members of German civil society are pressing Berlin for an official apology. The recent returning of r [...]
13 September 2018
by Benjamin Duerr
Can John Bolton unite the friends of the ICC?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is in the spotlights of global politics after John Bolton, the national security adviser of US President Donald Trump, lashed out at the court. He outlined a strategy to undermine the work of [...]
11 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Paris arrest a new step to justice for Liberian war crimes
2018 is a good year for the activists who have vowed they will not let the crimes committed in Liberia’s wars of the 1990s go unpunished. After two landmark judgments in the United States, they have now got another arrest in Paris [...]
10 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Week in Review: Myanmar regime and Liberian warlords under pressure
Judges of the International Criminal Court have stepped up pressure on the Myanmar regime by deciding that the court has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed against the Rohingyas. The effect of this decision, rejected by th [...]
5 September 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia and the Struggle for Individual Rights, an interview with Slim Laghmani
Emerging from dictatorship also requires legal reforms. In Tunisia, the report of the Commission on individual liberties and equality (Colibe) has sparked controversy by challenging the established social order, especially on equa [...]
3 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African human rights defenders say no to amnesty
As talks are announced in the Central African Republic between the government and armed groups, the country’s human rights organizations and their international partners such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the In [...]
2 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Week in Review: Congolese warlord’s trial ends, Burmese generals accused of genocide
In The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week concluded its hearings in the trial of former Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda. And in New York, UN experts called for international prosecution of top Burmese [...]
30 August 2018
by AFP
Congolese rebel says he is a 'revolutionary' not a criminal
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda told international judges Thursday he was a "revolutionary and not a criminal" as arguments drew to a close in his three-year war crimes trial. Ntaganda, aged around 44, is accused of overseeing ma [...]
27 August 2018
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis
In Tunisia, calls to scrap the death penalty
In an open letter to the Tunisian president, two NGOs urge him to approve a recommendation by the Commission on Individual Liberties and Equality to scrap the death penalty. On August 8, President Beji Caied Essebsi received a let [...]
27 August 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Retrial for Rwandan ex-minister, appeal for Rohingya children
The retrial of former Rwandan Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware is to take place on September 24 to 28 before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is the residual mechanism of the UN’s Rwanda trib [...]
23 August 2018
by Jennifer Trahan, The Conversation
Unpacking the request for early release by three Rwanda genocide prisoners
Three Rwandan prisoners convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda have requested early release from the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. This has drawn widespread anger i [...]
23 August 2018
by UN News Center
UNICEF warns of ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya youth, one year after Myanmar exodus
The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Chi [...]
20 August 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Ivorian amnesty and Bemba acquittal provoke reactions
In Côte d’Ivoire, the main transitional justice focus remained an amnesty granted on August 6 by President Ouattara to 700 people convicted or charged in relation to the post-election crisis of 2010-2011. In an August 17 declarati [...]
15 August 2018
by AFP
Belongings and belonging: the precious objects gathered by fleeing Rohingya
The Rohingya had no time to consider what to take as Myanmar forces drove the Muslim minority into Bangladesh in a crackdown a year ago likened by the UN to ethnic cleansing. Some fled with little more than the clothes on their ba [...]