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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: Nepal’s victims want real results from transitional justice
15 February 2018 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The one-year extensions of Nepal’s two transitional justice mechanisms without necessary legal and institutional reforms ordered by the Supreme Court and the United Nations are insufficient to comply with international standards,  [...]
Brazil: Court decision puts spotlight on crimes against indigenous people
15 February 2018 by Fabio Cascardo
In a historic decision regarding crimes against humanity committed by the military dictatorship (1964-1985) against the indigenous Kinja people (also known as Waimiri-Atroari), the Brazilian Federal Justice of the state of Amazona [...]
South Africa: a giant of Africa
13 February 2018 by AFP
South Africa is the continent's most industrialised economy and among its most developed, but marked by gaping inequalities rooted in years of racist white-minority rule that ended in 1994. - Apartheid - Black South Africans, arou [...]
Week in Review: Amnesia in Poland, violence in Venezuela and the Philippines
12 February 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Poland’s adoption of a controversial law on the history of the Holocaust marked the transitional justice week. Once again, a country is trying to impose its vision of history through law and close all debate on its past. The text [...]
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12 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
How political violence can become criminal violence According to the Gallup survey institute, the five most dangerous countries in the world in 2017 were Venezuela, South Africa, El Salvador, South Sudan and Liberia. With the exception of Venezuela, they have all been through civil [...]
11 February 2018 by AFP
PM calls on Poles to avoid "unnecessary anti-Semitic jokes" Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called on Poles to refrain from making anti-Semitic statements at a time when the country is under fire over a controversial Holocaust law. The new law sets fines or a maximum thr [...]
8 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Wake up to suffering of Georgian victims, NGOs tell international court In a report published on February 5, human rights organizations express concern for the situation of victims of the summer 2008 Russia-Georgia war.  Two years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened an investigation, t [...]
8 February 2018 by AFP
The US-led coalition in Syria: a timeline The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group has avoided involvement in Syria's civil war, but on Thursday it said it killed more than 100 pro-regime fighters in the country. The international coalition was set up in 2014 [...]
8 February 2018 by AFP
ICC probing alleged crimes in Philippines, Venezuela The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled new probes focusing on the deadly war on drugs in the Philippines and alleged abuses during Venezuela's political unrest. The unprecedented decision to launch [...]
8 February 2018 by Marlies Stappers, Thomas Unger
EU’s Balkan Strategy Misses Chance to Tackle Past Injustice The European Commission presented its strategy for the Western Balkans on Tuesday, giving countries in the region a clear perspective for EU accession.This is to be welcomed, and there is no discussion that the future of the regio [...]
7 February 2018 by Tomasz Lachowski
Poland : "Fighting for historical truth with a penal code is the matter of weak states" Reckoning with past evils never is an easy task. Undoubtedly, fighting for historical truth appears as an inherent right of each and every nation, what corresponds to the freely chosen shape of the politics of memory of a given st [...]
6 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Poland tries to rewrite Holocaust history After putting pressure on the judicial system and the media, Poland’s authorities are now clamping down on how the country’s Second World War history is told. This authoritarian trend is worrying the European Union. January 27 mar [...]
6 February 2018 by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Gambia: Many Jammeh loyalists still in high posts, says human rights defender A year after the fall of Yahya Jammeh’s bloody 22-year dictatorship, there is a wind of freedom blowing in The Gambia. But, at the same time, many Gambians are worried that the new government is trying to do “new things with old f [...]
5 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Afghanistan: NGO urges ICC not to forget Guantanamo crimes A human rights NGO has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to extend its likely investigations on Afghanistan to crimes committed at Guantanamo. On November 20, 2017, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court’s  j [...]
5 February 2018 by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Testing times for TJ from Kosovo to Burundi This was a bad week for transitional justice, in Kosovo, Tunisia and Burundi. In Kosovo, the authorities are trying to stop the special tribunal charged with trying war crimes committed by UCK rebels between 1998 -2000, explains P [...]
1 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Will contested Kosovo tribunal ever get off the ground? Is the Kosovo war crimes tribunal dead before it even begins? Parliamentarians close to the country’s President and Prime Minister are trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Switzerland has granted it funding support. In January 2018, S [...]
30 January 2018 by Louis-Marie Nindorera, Burundian consultant on transitional justice
Opinion: Klaus Barbie and Burundi’s Truth Commission January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy years on and thousands of miles from where it happened, this day for prevention of crimes against humanity also has resonance in Burundi. Louis-Marie Nindorera is a B [...]
29 January 2018 by SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER
Myanmar: A mass grave, an unprecedented admission and a few unanswered questions The unprecedented admission by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar national army) that security forces were involved in unlawfully killing Muslims in Rakhine State may have implications for plans to repatriate verified refugees from Bangladesh. [...]
29 January 2018 by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Gambia, Mali, Tunisia and Iraq Transitional justice is moving forward in Gambia with the setting up of a Truth Commission.  The Commission’s task will be no less than to “mend the tissue of Gambian society, torn apart by 22 years of iron-fisted rule under ex-di [...]