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.
Iraq: “Saving manuscripts is also saving people”
25 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
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
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
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 [...]
A Practitioners' Perspective on Forms of Justice in Peru and Colombia
23 January 2018
by ICTJ
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 [...]
23 January 2018
by Human Rights Watch
Kabul Hotel Attack a "War Crime", says HRW
This weekend’s attack on the Intercontinental Hotel was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible f [...]
22 January 2018
by François Musseau (Madrid)
Salvadoran army colonel faces justice in Spain
He no longer has the same charisma or the same look as he did when he was part of El Salvador’s army élite. At 74, former colonel Inocente Montano is still tall, but as he comes to the special high court in Madrid (Audiencia Nacio [...]
22 January 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Hope in Guinea, disappointment in Togo, impunity in Burundi
Will justice be done in Guinea in the very sensitive case of the September 28, 2009 massacre of 150 people in a stadium in the capital Conakry? This looks more likely after investigations closed in December 2017 and the suspects w [...]
19 January 2018
by Human Rights Watch
Burundi: "Impunity for serious crimes remains the norm"
The Burundi government continued its repression of real and perceived political opponents in 2017, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch published on January 18. This included murder, forced disappearance, torture a [...]
19 January 2018
by The Conversation
Living through the horrors of genocide: humanitarian workers in Rwanda
They are on the frontlines of any major conflict or disaster – but how much is known about the daily experiences of humanitarian workers in these extreme situations? In their new book, Génocide et crimes de masse. L’expérience rwa [...]
18 January 2018
by Frontier
This is not Myanmar’s path to peace
Myanmar's government runs the risk of ceding so much control to the Tatmadaw (national army) that it simply becomes irrelevant to the peace process. The next 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference is supposed to be just a fe [...]
17 January 2018
by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
Will Guinea hold trial this year for 2009 stadium massacre?
In Guinea, investigations into the September 2009 massacre in Conakry have finally closed, seven years after the event. Announcing this on December 29, 2017, Guinean Justice Minister Cheik Sacko said the suspects have been refer [...]
15 January 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal's TJ commissions need political will, not just more time
On January 5, 2018, Nepal’s cabinet decided to extend the tenure of the country’s two transitional justice (TJ) bodies for another year. But this was done without consulting primary stakeholders and without evaluating the work of [...]
14 January 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: African dictators cling to power, as Tunisia protests austerity again
On JusticeInfo.net, French jurist Didier Niewiadowski looks at what he calls “exception for insecurity”, a pretext used by African dictators to postpone elections indefinitely. The best example, he writes, is Joseph Kabila in the [...]
11 January 2018
by THOMAS MANCH | FRONTIER
For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction
In Myanmar, members of the Muslim community are facing long delays in citizenship applications unless they acquiesce to officials’ suggestions that they be labelled “Bengali”. Ma Hnin Hlaing, a bright, young Bamar Muslim, cannot b [...]
7 January 2018
by AFP
War criminals: freed before serving out their jailtime
Before former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, several people convicted of crimes against humanity have been granted early release, from Nazis tried in Nuremberg to Argentinian military officers. - World War II - - Walther Fun [...]
3 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
As Yugoslav tribunal closes, a look back at its history
In his last speech to the UN Security Council on December 6, 2017, ICTY President Carmel Agius expressed satisfaction that out of 161 persons indicted, all have been tried or have died, representing a 100% success rate, although t [...]
3 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
How the ICTY has changed our world
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) closed its doors on December 31, 2017, after working for 24 years, issuing 161 indictments and nearly as many judgments, hearing 4,600 witnesses over 10,800 days [...]