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.
The ICC doubles down on Central African Republic
12 December 2018
by AFP
Two arrests in three weeks: the International Criminal Court makes a spectacular comeback in Central African Republic. Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, a former “national general coordinator” of the anti-balaka militia, was arrested in [...]
10 December 2018
by Claude Sengenya
This year’s joint Nobel Peace Prize winners, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a survivor of Daesh sexual slavery in Iraq, today receive their prestigious award in Oslo. In an interview conducted in Bukavu on Novembe [...]
7 December 2018
by Sophal Ear, Nushin Sarkarati and Daniel McLaughlin
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, is confronted to a strategic, legal and political challenge: to try and hold more trials, or to close shop. The issue has divided t [...]
6 December 2018
by Claude Sengenya
On December 10, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege will officially receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, alongside Nadia Murad, a Yezidi survivor of wartime rape in Iraq. For nearly 20 years Mukwege, a 63-year-old gynaecologist, has [...]
5 December 2018
by Ludovica Iaccino
Phil Clark: The ICC has been used as a weapon against opponents
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Phil Clark Reader in Comparative and International Politics at London’s SOAS University After a multi-year field research in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Australian scholar [...]
3 December 2018
by Janet H. Anderson
ICC: What’s on the menu for 2019
The Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court opens its annual session on December 5 in The Hague. Here are the main topics and issues that will be discussed. They give a hint of the Office of the Prosecutor’s [...]
3 December 2018
by George Wright
Is it time to wrap up the Khmer Rouge tribunal?
The Cambodian government has stated its position clearly: no more trials before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. International and national co-investigative judges issued a split decision that divides the cour [...]
30 November 2018
by Julia Crawford
What’s behind the rise of evidence-gathering bodies
Two experts discuss a new trend in international criminal justice: the setting-up of evidence-gathering bodies by the United Nations when other, immediate, accountability options are lacking. Are they a replacement for a larger fa [...]
29 November 2018
by Claude Sengenya
DR Congo: Sheka trial opens amidst uncertainty
A Congolese military court on November 27 started the trial of Tabo Ntaberi, known as “Sheka”, founder and former leader of Nduma Defence of the Congo (NDC), a rebel militia active in North Kivu province. He is charged with crimes [...]
27 November 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Rithy Panh: living the experience of genocide in body and soul
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Rithy Panh Cambodian film maker and survivor of Khmer Rouge crimes After the conviction of the last two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity Rithy Panh, who sur [...]
26 November 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mali: Should there be amnesty or not?
In Mali, human rights activists are demanding withdrawal of a draft law on “national understanding” which would grant amnesty to perpetrators of crimes linked to the 2012 rebellion. But the government says it will not back down, a [...]
23 November 2018
by Mariana Casij Peña
Colombia’s transitional justice: Mission impossible?
Two years ago, on November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) signed a revised peace agreement that brought the armed conflict to an end. Both parties agreed on what is prob [...]
21 November 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
Hopes and fears in Tunisia over victim reparations
Tunisia’s reparations and rehabilitation programme is based on consultations held by the Truth and Dignity Commission in 2017. But six weeks before the end of the Commission’s mandate, victims are protesting against the exclusion [...]
20 November 2018
by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo Trial: Frustration on all sides
The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of Uganda’s rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been adjourned to February 2019, only two days after it started. This has caused unease among the victims of the two-decade a [...]
17 November 2018
by AFP
The ICC strikes in Central African Republic
Alfred Yekatom, a former militia leader turned member of parliament, was swiftly transferred to The Hague on November 17. He is likely to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Four years after the International C [...]
16 November 2018
by George Wright
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide
Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the last two remaining leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer rouge regime, were found guilty of genocide against either the Cham people or the Vietnamese, or both, as well as numerous crimes against humanity. Th [...]
15 November 2018
by Marie Guiraud
Cambodia: Learning lessons from victims’ participation
The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia has offered victims unprecedented participation in an international trial. But what did they really experience, apart from a few heroic witnesses called to testify? How much do we really care a [...]
13 November 2018
by David Chandler
Cambodia: What will be left of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal?
On November 16, the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh will deliver its most important judgment against the last two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are prosecuted for genocide, crimes against [...]
13 November 2018
by Grace Matsiko
LRA’s victims: “We ask those handling this case not to delay it again”
The trial of the former operations commander of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo begun on November 12 in the country’s Northern town of Gulu, once the epicenter of the group’s armed activit [...]