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.
ICC Prosecutor says Bemba acquittal based on false testimony
5 July 2018
by Stéphanie Maupas,correspondent in The Hague
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) prepared to hold a hearing this July 5 in a second, witness tampering case against Congolese Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba and his co-accused, the Prosecutor says his acquittal in early June f [...]
22 June 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The government of Nepal is preparing to register a new bill of controversial and highly contested transitional justice act in the parliament after 3 and half years of two transitional bodies formed in February 2015. In a historic [...]
21 June 2018
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Better fighting sexual violence in conflict, prosecuting perpetrators more efficiently and strengthening judicial procedures so that victims can get justice and reparation – this was the focus of a conference organized in Geneva b [...]
18 June 2018
by AFP
Spain's new government to remove Franco's remains from mausoleum
Spain's new Socialist government is determined to remove the remains of Francisco Franco from a vast mausoleum near Madrid and turn it into a place of "reconciliation" for a country still coming to terms with the dictator's legacy [...]
18 June 2018
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Sexual violence in conflict: how international guidelines can help investigators
Swiss NGO TRIAL International, a partner of JusticeInfo that supports victims of international crimes, is putting the spotlight on sexual violence in conflict at a series of events in Geneva on June 18-19 to mark its fifteenth ann [...]
17 June 2018
by AFP
Colombia's new president Ivan Duque is an anti-FARC hardliner
Ivan Duque's election victory in Colombia makes him the youngest president in his country's modern history, and gives him a strong mandate to overhaul the government's fragile peace deal with the former rebel group FARC. He campai [...]
16 June 2018
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Pay more attention to witness protection and reparations, says sexual violence expert
Sexual violence in conflict is one of the most important but also hardest crimes to prosecute. Swiss NGO TRIAL International, a partner of JusticeInfo and Fondation Hirondelle that supports victims of international crimes, is putt [...]
12 June 2018
by AFP
Jean-Pierre Bemba, former Congolese warlord and Kabila foe
Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was provisionally freed Tuesday by the International Criminal Court following an acquittal last week, is a former warlord and adversary of Congolese President Joseph Kabila. His interim release relates to a [...]
12 June 2018
by Benjamin Thorne
Legal Witnessing and Mass Human Rights Violations: Remembering Atrocities
International criminal courts and tribunals, such as the ICT for Rwanda, are commonly understood within legal scholarship as the primary tool that is utilized after mass human rights violations. This is so not only in addressing i [...]
12 June 2018
by Julia Zulver, University of Oxford
Feasible Justice: Has Colombia Over-Promised and Under-Delivered Reparations for its 8.6 Million Victims?
Colombia’s unprecedented reparations programme guarantees financial, land restitution, and holistic benefits for millions of victims. With only 7% payment to date, however, the government faces the challenge of making good on pro [...]
12 June 2018
by Dr. John Sturtz
Teachers’ Influence: Transitional Justice and the Impact of Education
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, recently advocated a deeper form of education – one that “goes beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic to include skills and values that can equip peopl [...]
12 June 2018
by Maxime Domegni
Gambia: Fatou Jatta, HIV activist who went through Yahya Jammeh “HIV cure program” asks for justice
In The Gambia, according to local media, over 9,000 Gambians went through Yahya Jammeh’s so-called 'treatment program', with a majority of HIV patients. “The testimony of survivors makes obvious that significant numbers of deaths [...]
12 June 2018
by Dr Thompson Chengeta
The possibility of transitional justice post-Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Through a reign of terror and a ruinous economic policy, the ZANU-PF Government of Zimbabwe [GoZ] not only violated the rights of Zimbabweans but broke the relationship between the Government and its citizens. In order to re [...]
8 June 2018
by Jan HENNOP
ICC acquits warlord and former congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba
International war crimes judges Friday acquitted former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on appeal, overturning an 18-year sentence for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). "Mr Bemba cannot be held [...]
7 June 2018
by Nour El Bejjani Noureddine, ICTJ
Lebanon Edges Closer Toward Truth for Families of the Missing and Disappeared
Life continues to stand still for the many families of the missing and disappeared in Lebanon who have been desperately trying to uncover the fate of their loved ones and who are holding out hope of seeing them someday. The Lebane [...]
6 June 2018
by Maxime Domegni
Gambian to continue to be “resilient, peaceful and resolute”, commends Ade Lekoetje, UN representativ
Since Yahya Jammeh’s left the power in The Gambia, in January 2017, the country is going through a delicate political transition and running a transitional justice process. After getting rid of the dictatorship, the young and vuln [...]
4 June 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tunisian trial and questions on UN judge selection
An important event of the transitional justice week was the start of trial in Tunisia in the case of Kamel Matmati, who was kidnapped by former president Ben Ali’s police, died under torture 27 years ago and his body disappeared w [...]