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.
14 March 2018
by AFP
President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he was pulling the Philippines out of the treaty underpinning the International Criminal Court, which is examining his deadly drug war. The outspoken leader, who is accused of stoking the k [...]
Myanmar events 'bear hallmarks of genocide': UN expert
12 March 2018
by AFP
A top UN rights expert warned Monday that the crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya minority bears "the hallmarks of genocide" and insisted the government should be held accountable. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled northern Ra [...]
12 March 2018
by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
Tunisia’s transition is certainly chaotic, but it is also lively and resilient, as JusticeInfo.net showed this week. This country, last bastion of the Arab Spring, is questioning the future of its transitional justice processes, n [...]
8 March 2018
by Frédéric Burnand, Geneva correspondent
World must act on a litany of crimes, says outgoing Human Rights Commissioner
Presenting his last annual report to the UN Human Rights Council as High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein highlighted a series of mass crimes needing investigation by commissions of inquiry, referral to the Int [...]
8 March 2018
by Julia Crawford
Switzerland : Is the Abacha accord a model for returning ‘dictator funds’?
A recent Swiss agreement with Nigeria and the World Bank to return hundreds of millions in so-called “Abacha funds” is being hailed as a model for how other countries deal with dictators’ assets. But civil society organisations in [...]
8 March 2018
by David E Kiwuwa Associate Professor of International Studies, Princeton Univers
Why China’s removal of term limits is a gift to African Presidents
The recent sitting of the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) rolled out a big surprise development: a proposed removal of presidential term limits. This came among a raft of other constitutional amendments. [...]
4 March 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Rule of law under threat in Tanzania and Tunisia
Tanzania is one of the rare African countries known for being peaceful, democratic and multi-ethnic. Its revered former long-time president Julius Nyerere decided, unlike many of his counterparts, to withdraw from power in 1985. B [...]
4 March 2018
by JusticeInfo.Net
Tanzania's legendary "tranquillity" under threat
Since President John Magufuli’s election in late 2015, Tanzania has been losing its reputation as a haven of “peace and tranquillity” previously envied by its neighbours. Murders and attempted murders of opponents, suspension of m [...]
1 March 2018
by AFP
Sri Lanka launches probe into war-era disappearances
Sri Lanka has appointed commissioners to a special panel tasked with investigating war-era disappearances, three years after President Maithripala Sirisena was elected promising justice for victims of the island's bloody ethnic co [...]
26 February 2018
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC under fire for internal mismanagement
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is again under fire for bad governance. In late January the International Labour Organization (ILO) handed down six judgments denouncing the “illegal” nature of steps taken by ICC Registrar H [...]
26 February 2018
by SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER
Myanmar's government, the Rakhine crisis and media access
The Myanmar government’s response to an Associated Press report about civilians buried in a mass grave at a northern Rakhine village has again focused attention on a counterproductive media access ban to the area imposed nearly fi [...]
26 February 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: ICC internal management, Tunisia and DRC
This transitional justice week saw an investigation by our correspondent in The Hague into the administrative problems of the International Criminal Court, whose staff management has been sanctioned. This is a singular situation f [...]
23 February 2018
by AFP
UN wants prosecutions for S,Sudan war crimes
A UN rights commission in South Sudan said Friday there was sufficient evidence to charge at least 41 senior officers and officials with war crimes and crimes against humanity. South Sudan's four-year-old civil war has been charac [...]
23 February 2018
by AFP
Armenian 'genocide': the disputed massacres of 1915-17
Armenia and Turkey are at odds over whether the World War I massacres and deportations of Armenians by their Ottoman rulers should be described as genocide. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915 and [...]
22 February 2018
by Human Rights Watch
Unfair ISIS Trial in Iraq Hands Women Harshest Sentences
Six months after about 1,400 foreign women and children surrendered with Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to Iraqi security forces, Iraq’s courts are sentencing the women to life in prison and even to death for non-violent crimes. It [...]
21 February 2018
by AFP
Enclaves bombarded by the Syrian regime
Before Eastern Ghouta there was Homs, Aleppo, Daraya -- rebel towns and enclaves that the Syrian regime pounded and besieged, forcing fighters to give up their arms and civilians to flee. - Homs - Syria's third city Homs was dubbe [...]
19 February 2018
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Human Rights Watch slams police brutality and slow reform in Tunisia
Human Rights Watch recently published two reports on the human rights situation in Tunisia. One concerns police brutality during a wave of protests in January 2018, and the second is part of a 2018 World Report on human rights sit [...]
18 February 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Reconciliation as the key to a successful transition
In the wide domain of “transitional justice”, reconciliation processes are the key to transition, as we see in many countries. Mali, for example, is showing this once again through its weaknesses, as Justiceinfo’s Bamako corres [...]