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.
Uganda faces first test with Kwoyelo LRA trial
10 November 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
In Uganda, the trial of former LRA rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo is set to start on Monday November 12 in the northern town of Gulu. Kwoyelo, who has been in detention since 2009, is the first person to be brought before a specia [...]
9 November 2018
by Wayne Jordash
Wayne Jordash is one of the most experienced lawyers before international criminal tribunals. He is back from the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh where he met some of the victims he represents in a potential case before the I [...]
8 November 2018
by Stephanie van den Berg
The trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo resumes next week before the International Criminal Court. The Defence is trying to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence. And the judges seem to wonder about the prosecu [...]
7 November 2018
by Andrew Ianuzzi, Richard J Rogers and Heather Ryan
On October 26, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was appointed as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. For the Monitoring and Accountability Panel, this political come-back risks undermining the limited progress made in transitional just [...]
6 November 2018
by Ludovica Iaccino
Fanie du Toit: “Religious extremism is discredited amongst most Iraqis”
Fanie du Toit, former executive director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa, is the technical advisor of a United Nations project, ‘Support for Integrated Reconciliation in Iraq’, that tries since 2016 [...]
5 November 2018
by Claire Bargelès
Gambia: criminal cases advance slowly for dictatorship crimes
In Gambia, as well as the launch of a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission to shed light on human rights abuses during Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule, there are also advances on the criminal justice front, both at home an [...]
1 November 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
Burundi: A Truth Commission as political diversion
A new law adopted by Burundi’s parliament on October 25 prolongs the mandate of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for four years and extends it to cover the colonial period from 1885. It will thus give the governme [...]
30 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Freeman: how you can negotiate justice and peace
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Freeman Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) From June 2014 to December 2015, Mark Freeman was one of two independent experts hired by the Colombian governm [...]
29 October 2018
by Stephanie van den Berg
Damaging power struggle engulfs the former ICTY
Judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), the successor institution of the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, have become embroiled in a very public power struggle which is already impact [...]
26 October 2018
by Julia Crawford
Lundin faces prosecution for Sudan oil war abuses
Sweden’s government has given the green light for the Public Prosecutor to charge two top executives of the Stockholm-based Lundin Petroleum company for assisting suspected crimes against humanity in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 by [...]
22 October 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Special Criminal Court gets under way
The Special Criminal Court’s inaugural session in Bangui today is mainly symbolic. But it should increase pressure on this new hybrid court created 16 months ago to present its investigating strategy and start work. The ceremony c [...]
19 October 2018
by Sareta Ashraph
What the Rohingya may learn from the Yazidi struggle for justice
Nadia Murad's Nobel Peace Prize comes at the right time to hopefully refocus attention on the Yazidis' struggle for justice and security. But for the Rohingyas it is worth looking at how the Yazidis managed to mobilize and write t [...]
18 October 2018
by Justice Info
Without information, no reconciliation : our work and our mission explained in an animated video
Last spring, we published a video animation (the experts speak of "motion design") whose objective was to explain, in a simplified and pictorial way, the job as well as the mission of JuticeInfo.net. On the occasion of the redesig [...]
18 October 2018
by François Musseau
What purpose for a Spanish Truth Commission?
Spain’s Prime Minister has said he wants to establish a Truth Commission on the Franco years. Forty years after dictatorship was replaced by democracy, there is hot debate among historians about how useful such a commission would [...]
16 October 2018
by JusticeInfo.net
JusticeInfo.net gets a makeover: interview with Thierry Cruvellier
Thierry Cruvellier, the new editor-in-chief of JusticeInfo.net, presents the remodeled website: a fluid navigation, relevant content and understandable for all. He also introduces our new extensive network of local correspondents [...]
16 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Reed Brody: “We have the power to bring you to justice”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Reed Brody Human rights lawyer Twenty years ago, on October 16, 1998, Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London for crimes committed under his rule. For international justi [...]
15 October 2018
by JusticeInfo.net
A new, more intuitive website for Justice Info
JusticeInfo.net, created by Fondation Hirondelle in 2015 to cover news about justice after mass violence, brings you a new version of its website to better inform specialists and give a voice to populations affected by these crime [...]
15 October 2018
by Claire Bargelès
What model for Gambia’s truth commission?
Gambia officially inaugurates its Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission this Monday October 15. The Commission is one of the key promises of President Adama Barrow after his election victory over Yahya Jammeh in Decembe [...]
10 October 2018
by Maud Sarliève
Can criminal courts help save the environment?
October 9 was a day of celebration for environmental activists. An appeals court in The Hague confirmed an order for the Dutch State to cut its CO2 emissions by at least 25% by 2020 compared with the levels of 1990. The judgment w [...]