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.
16 June 2018
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Sexual violence in conflict is one of the most important but also hardest crimes to prosecute. Swiss NGO TRIAL International, a partner of JusticeInfo and Fondation Hirondelle that supports victims of international crimes, is putt [...]
Jean-Pierre Bemba, former Congolese warlord and Kabila foe
12 June 2018
by AFP
Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was provisionally freed Tuesday by the International Criminal Court following an acquittal last week, is a former warlord and adversary of Congolese President Joseph Kabila. His interim release relates to a [...]
12 June 2018
by Benjamin Thorne
Legal Witnessing and Mass Human Rights Violations: Remembering Atrocities
International criminal courts and tribunals, such as the ICT for Rwanda, are commonly understood within legal scholarship as the primary tool that is utilized after mass human rights violations. This is so not only in addressing i [...]
12 June 2018
by Julia Zulver, University of Oxford
Feasible Justice: Has Colombia Over-Promised and Under-Delivered Reparations for its 8.6 Million Victims?
Colombia’s unprecedented reparations programme guarantees financial, land restitution, and holistic benefits for millions of victims. With only 7% payment to date, however, the government faces the challenge of making good on pro [...]
12 June 2018
by Dr. John Sturtz
Teachers’ Influence: Transitional Justice and the Impact of Education
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, recently advocated a deeper form of education – one that “goes beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic to include skills and values that can equip peopl [...]
12 June 2018
by Maxime Domegni
Gambia: Fatou Jatta, HIV activist who went through Yahya Jammeh “HIV cure program” asks for justice
In The Gambia, according to local media, over 9,000 Gambians went through Yahya Jammeh’s so-called 'treatment program', with a majority of HIV patients. “The testimony of survivors makes obvious that significant numbers of deaths [...]
12 June 2018
by Dr Thompson Chengeta
The possibility of transitional justice post-Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Through a reign of terror and a ruinous economic policy, the ZANU-PF Government of Zimbabwe [GoZ] not only violated the rights of Zimbabweans but broke the relationship between the Government and its citizens. In order to re [...]
8 June 2018
by Jan HENNOP
ICC acquits warlord and former congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba
International war crimes judges Friday acquitted former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on appeal, overturning an 18-year sentence for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). "Mr Bemba cannot be held [...]
7 June 2018
by Nour El Bejjani Noureddine, ICTJ
Lebanon Edges Closer Toward Truth for Families of the Missing and Disappeared
Life continues to stand still for the many families of the missing and disappeared in Lebanon who have been desperately trying to uncover the fate of their loved ones and who are holding out hope of seeing them someday. The Lebane [...]
6 June 2018
by Maxime Domegni
Gambian to continue to be “resilient, peaceful and resolute”, commends Ade Lekoetje, UN representativ
Since Yahya Jammeh’s left the power in The Gambia, in January 2017, the country is going through a delicate political transition and running a transitional justice process. After getting rid of the dictatorship, the young and vuln [...]
4 June 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tunisian trial and questions on UN judge selection
An important event of the transitional justice week was the start of trial in Tunisia in the case of Kamel Matmati, who was kidnapped by former president Ben Ali’s police, died under torture 27 years ago and his body disappeared w [...]
1 June 2018
by Human Rights Watch
Iraq: Impartial Justice Effort Needed
A new United Nations investigation of crimes committed by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Iraq was not given the mandate that the situation calls for, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 31, 2018, the United Nations se [...]
31 May 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
UN schizophrenia and the choice of international judges
International criminal justice puts forward the idea of universal, detached justice delivered by judges who are themselves completely independent and impartial because they are not part of the reality of societies at war whose cri [...]
31 May 2018
by Eden Matiyas
What prospects for an African Court under the Malabo Protocol?
The future of the Malabo Protocol to create an African Court of Justice and Human Rights remains uncertain. Despite hopes that it could add a regional accountability layer and strengthen “African solutions for African problems”, i [...]
30 May 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : in Nepal, impunity for perpetrators
On the Republican day on 29 May 2018, government released a criminally convicted former parliamentarian and ex-Maoist leader Balkrishna Dhungel from jail, who was arrested by Supreme Court order in October 2017 and other 815 convi [...]
28 May 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Views on the ICC and violence in Mali
Once again this week, questions have been raised about current models of transitional justice and reconciliation procedures. Justice Info spoke to three lawyers and activists from Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire and Georgia, who shared the [...]
25 May 2018
by AFP
War, displacement reshuffle Syria's demographic map
Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase. Displaced Syrians, analysts, and rig [...]