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.
Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions
22 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission has continued to hear high-profile testimonies from ex-members of Yahya Jammeh’s former military junta. New details on the executions that took place on 11 November 1994 were off [...]
21 January 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
In December, Belgium and France made several announcements on cases related to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Almost 25 years after the massacres that took hundreds of thousands of lives in just three months, the judicial systems o [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
15 January 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mali and the difficulty of seeking truth under fire
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
