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.
OPINION: Justice and press freedom go hand in hand
3 May 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
In Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, Joseph K’s friend Ms Burstner says: “I find stories about justice extremely interesting. Justice has a strange power of seduction, don’t you think?” This is a terrible irony given the trial in the [...]
3 May 2018
by Clare Hammond, Frontier
Members of the United Nations Security Council have told Myanmar’s leaders there must be a “proper investigation” into a military crackdown in Rakhine State last August, which displaced almost 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Banglades [...]
29 April 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
This week, JusticeInfo.net examined the significance of a memorial to the Armenian genocide recently inaugurated in a Geneva park. “Despite opposition from Ankara, the “Streetlights of Memory” were inaugurated in Geneva after 10 y [...]
27 April 2018
by Institute for security studies
Foreign military footprints, especially those of the United States (US) and France, are expanding in West Africa, particularly in the Sahel. This presence is receiving increasingly hostile public criticism. It is often considered [...]
26 April 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
An Armenian genocide memorial in Geneva to shine light on past and present
After long years the “Streetlights of Memory”, a work by French artist Melik Ohanian, found a home in Geneva on April 13. It first needed the Geneva parliament in 1998 and then the Swiss parliament in 2003 to recognize the Armenia [...]
24 April 2018
by Stéphanie MAUPAS, The Hague
ICC: Reparation process “makes the Court to be relevant to society, beyond the Courtroom”
In 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its first ever verdict in the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga. Since then, there have been two other confirmed convictions of Congolese Germain Katang [...]
23 April 2018
by AFP
Karadzic urges UN judges to throw out war crimes conviction
Once-feared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic Monday urged UN judges to overturn his conviction for war crimes during the Balkans conflict, and either acquit him or order a new trial. Appearing at the start of his two-day appea [...]
22 April 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: One warlord on trial in the DRC, and one sentenced in the US
The trial of former Congolese militia leader Maro Ntumwa (dubbed the “Moroccan”) by a military tribunal in South Kivu, eastern DRC, opened on April 13 and continued this week. The accused is charged with “rape, sexual slavery, loo [...]
19 April 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, with Radio Ndeke Luka
CAR: Are ex-Seleka preparing to march on Bangui?
The latest joint operation by UN peacekeepers and Central African forces in Bangui’s PK5 district is viewed by factions of the ex-Seleka rebels as an attack on Muslims. In response, some militia have organized protest shut-downs i [...]
18 April 2018
by John Ciorciari
A scholar’s journey to understand the needs of Pol Pot’s survivors
Forty-three years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia. Their radical regime, led by the dictator Pol Pot, inflicted countless atrocities and left deep wounds. Neighbors turned against one another. Families were fract [...]
16 April 2018
by swissinfo.ch
Long-delayed, disputed Armenian memorial unveiled in Geneva
A memorial series of street lamps commemorating the 1915-1917 Armenian genocide has been officially unveiled in Geneva. Turkish groups said that the initiative is a mistake. “Streetlights of memory” was unveiled on Friday in the p [...]
16 April 2018
by Claude Sengenya, special envoy to Kalehe, in the South Kivu province of eastern DRC
Congolese court tries ex-militia leader for crimes against humanity
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a military tribunal has been sitting since Friday April 13, in Kalehe, South Kivu province, for the trial of a former militia leader accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Mar [...]
15 April 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Pressure needed to save transitional justice in Nepal
Nepal’s government and security forces have been obstructing the country’s transitional justice (TJ) process and threatening human rights activists. But now they say they are ready to address victims’ demands and amend TJ legislat [...]
15 April 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Gambia forgotten, CAR at risk
This week we looked at Gambia, a small West African country forgotten since its successful transition from 22 years of bloody and madcap dictatorship under Yahya Jammeh. But a year after the arrival in power in January 2017 of Pre [...]
11 April 2018
by Oliver Slow/ Frontier
Myanmar and the Southeast Asian press squeeze
Across Southeast Asia – but especially Myanmar, Cambodia and the Philippines – journalists are facing arrest, intimidation and violence. On the afternoon of December 12 in Myanmar, Ma Pan Ei Mon asked her husband, Reuters journali [...]
11 April 2018
by AFP
Vojislav Seselj: Unrepentant Serb ultranationalist
Serb academic turned far-right leader Vojislav Seselj, who was found guilty Wednesday by a UN court of crimes against humanity, won notoriety during the 1990s Balkan wars for his incendiary rhetoric and remains defiant in defendin [...]
11 April 2018
by The Conversation, Angela Muvumba Sellström
Preventing sexual violence: lessons from rebel armies in Burundi and Uganda
I conduct research on wartime sexual violence. But hold on. My work focuses on the non-cases: armed political actors which have committed little sexual violence and have a history of disciplining their members’ sexual behaviour. T [...]
10 April 2018
by The Conversation
Rwandans discuss how best to commemorate genocide
Rwanda is commemorating the 24th anniversary of the 1994 Tutsi genocide. This claimed the lives of between 800,000 and one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus over 100 days. This is a good time to reflect on the history of policy an [...]