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.
Finland to set up Truth Commission for the Sami people
6 September 2019
by Franck Petit
The Sami people have lived since early times in the vast northern territories of Scandinavia, where some still make a living from herding reindeer and from fishing. Like the indigenous people of Canada and other big democracies, [...]
5 September 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in The Gambia took a break to go and meet the diaspora, it started to hear testimonies on the repression of a student protest that led to the death of at least fourteen s [...]
3 September 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
On July 16, Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they al [...]
2 September 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Victims of sexual violence have different expectations in Colombia, and the strategies of the transitional justice system do not always satisfy them. How to address these crimes before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace? Are ordin [...]
30 August 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Sexual violence, the new punching bag in the Colombian transition (Part 1)
The number of registered victims of sexual violence in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia has jumped fivefold in the past 5 years. Given the former FARC’s increasingly documented record of sexual abuse, the discussion has [...]
29 August 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Congo’s Kasai region demands justice
Three years after the outbreak of bloody violence in the Kasai region, Congolese justice is wavering in tackling it. Tired of waiting, the victims are calling for the country’s new president, Félix Tshisekedi, to intervene so nati [...]
27 August 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers
Late July a few former members of the Junglers, a group of hitmen under the military regime, testified before the Truth, reconciliation and reparations Commission in Gambia. They confessed to many killings. Within days, their rele [...]
26 August 2019
by Julia Crawford
Do we need an international tribunal for Islamic State?
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
The best of JusticeInfo, from january to july 2019
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
The Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, giving a voice to survivors
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
In Colombia, transitional justice is caught up in politics
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 [...]