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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.

Tunisia: Government accused of missing Truth Commission opportunities
18 January 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) claims to have recovered 745 million dinars for the State. But it also accuses the State of deliberately obstructing the IVD's arbitration and conciliation commission, preventing much b [...]
Acquittal of Gbagbo and Blé Goudé: a hammering for the Prosecutor's office
15 January 2019 by Maxence Peniguet and Thierry Cruvellier
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé were being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity linked to the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis. But on Ja [...]
Mali and the difficulty of seeking truth under fire
15 January 2019 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission is coming to the end of its three-year mandate. But it is only just starting to deploy in the regions hit by the crises that it is investigating. This is mainly because of a decl [...]
Gbagbo and Blé Goudé acquitted by the ICC
15 January 2019 by AFP
Breaking news at the International Criminal Court. The former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo and his coaccused Charles Blé Goudé are acquitted by the trial chamber. Judges have ordered their release.
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15 January 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) has opened its public hearings on January 7. Three former officers came to testify about their ordeal during and after the 22 July 1994 military coup. ‘We never wanted to [...]
11 January 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Valérie Cabanes: icc should recognize the crime of ecocide JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Valérie Cabanes International lawyer, defender of human rights and nature Lawyer and activist Valérie Cabanes has seen situations on all the world’s continents where people’s fundamental rights [...]
10 January 2019 by Benjamin Duerr
International crimes: Spotlight on Germany’s war crimes unit Between 2015 and 2017 Germany’s specialised unit to prosecute international crimes has received more than 4,000 tips of potential war crimes and crimes against humanity. Numerous cases are under investigation. Most of them concern [...]
3 January 2019 by François Musseau
Did Christopher Columbus commit genocide? In the United States, statues of the Genoese sailor have been torn down and Columbus Day renamed. Christopher Columbus is now considered responsible for the extermination of the Amerindians. Spanish historians denounce American "h [...]
20 December 2018 by Francesca Lessa
In the Footprints of Operation Condor How to respond to terror that knows no borders? For forty years, at least 25 criminal investigations into the transnational crimes of South America’s Operation Condor have unfolded in the domestic courts of seven countries. France [...]
20 December 2018 by Jeremie Bracka
Truth or Dare in the Middle East? There is a growing body of scholarship and practice that recognises local truth recovery projects during ongoing conflict. Across the globe, civil society has developed creative and engaging efforts to expose the past in various h [...]
18 December 2018 by Luke Svasti
Rohingya: A genocide a century in the making While the Rohingya crisis has reached unprecedented levels of harm, it is often attributed to, and publicly understood, as a consequence of Myanmar’s limiting 1982 citizenship law. This short paper argues that the crisis isn’t sim [...]
18 December 2018 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia Truth Commission highlights four arms of oppression Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission will officially conclude its work at the end of this year. At a closing conference on December 14 and 15 in Tunis, the Commission began revealing its findings on the repressive machine of the [...]
17 December 2018 by Olivia Herman
Reparative justice in Colombia: a role for armed non-state actors? The field of transitional justice has expanded its horizons beyond the early transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, to include transitions from non-international conflicts to peace. In such contexts, there is a need to ad [...]
17 December 2018 by Franck Petit
International crimes: spotlight on France’s war crimes unit Universal jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute any person for serious crimes committed anywhere in the world, is in the frontline of some prosecution strategies, notably with regard to crimes committed in Syria. In Pa [...]
14 December 2018 by Janet H. Anderson
Money Matters at the ICC Despite the arrest of a suspect two weeks before the opening of the Assembly of State Parties, and another this week, the International Criminal Court did not receive the budget increase it has asked. And some member states used t [...]
13 December 2018 by Igor Acko
Op Ed: Special Court and ICC must cooperate closely in the Central African Republic The Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic presented on December 4 its prosecution strategy, without giving precise information. But the country’s ordinary courts are already working and the International Cri [...]
13 December 2018 by Mark Freeman
Alex Boraine - In Memoriam Alex Boraine, the former vice-president of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, died on December 5. To many, he was a “giant” of what came to be known as transitional justice. Mark Freeman, the Executive Director of [...]
13 December 2018 by Giulio Pagano
No rights without truth: protecting relatives of desaparecidos This post examines the protection that Inter American jurisprudence has afforded to the juridical personality of the relatives of desaparecidos in their quest for truth about the forced disappearance. Article 3 of the In [...]
12 December 2018 by Diana Carrillo-González
Peacebuilding among jurisdictions in Colombia The Special Jurisdiction for Peace and indigenous peoples have the opportunity to create intercultural methodologies towards peacebuilding. To that end, three principles must be introduced: ethnic legal assistance, intercultural/i [...]