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.
How political violence can become criminal violence
12 February 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
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 [...]
PM calls on Poles to avoid "unnecessary anti-Semitic jokes"
11 February 2018
by AFP
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
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 [...]
The US-led coalition in Syria: a timeline
8 February 2018
by AFP
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 [...]
25 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Iraq: “Saving manuscripts is also saving people”
What is the point of saving culture if you can’t save people? That seems a derisory question in the spiral of violence hitting Iraq and Syria for years. But not for Father Najeeb. He has managed to save thousands of precious manus [...]
25 January 2018
by The Conversation
I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right
Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh from Myanmar since September 2017. The Bangladeshi government’s plan to start repatriating them beginning this Tuesday, Jan. 22, has been postponed due to concerns about t [...]
25 January 2018
by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
No reconciliation without justice, say Gambia’s victims
As Gambia’s new authorities prepare to launch a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, victims warn that there will be no reconciliation without justice. The process leading to the appointment of 11 Commission members i [...]
23 January 2018
by ICTJ
A Practitioners' Perspective on Forms of Justice in Peru and Colombia
Jairo Rivas has a decade of experience working with reparations forms. In the aftermath of Peru’s internal armed conflict, Rivas helped distribute reparations to thousands of victims as Technical Secretary of the Reparations Counc [...]