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.
In Tunisia, calls to scrap the death penalty
27 August 2018
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis
In an open letter to the Tunisian president, two NGOs urge him to approve a recommendation by the Commission on Individual Liberties and Equality to scrap the death penalty. On August 8, President Beji Caied Essebsi received a let [...]
27 August 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
The retrial of former Rwandan Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware is to take place on September 24 to 28 before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is the residual mechanism of the UN’s Rwanda trib [...]
23 August 2018
by Jennifer Trahan, The Conversation
Three Rwandan prisoners convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda have requested early release from the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. This has drawn widespread anger i [...]
23 August 2018
by UN News Center
The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Chi [...]
20 August 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Ivorian amnesty and Bemba acquittal provoke reactions
In Côte d’Ivoire, the main transitional justice focus remained an amnesty granted on August 6 by President Ouattara to 700 people convicted or charged in relation to the post-election crisis of 2010-2011. In an August 17 declarati [...]
15 August 2018
by AFP
Belongings and belonging: the precious objects gathered by fleeing Rohingya
The Rohingya had no time to consider what to take as Myanmar forces drove the Muslim minority into Bangladesh in a crackdown a year ago likened by the UN to ethnic cleansing. Some fled with little more than the clothes on their ba [...]
13 August 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Opponents amnestied in Côte d’Ivoire and South Sudan
In the past week, two African heads of State have granted amnesties to their opponents. In Côte d’Ivoire, the decision was announced on August 6 by President Alassane Ouattara during a speech to mark the 58th independence annivers [...]
9 August 2018
by Maxime Domegni
How to “take a local story and make it a global issue” with digital tools, by Bukkey Shonibbare from “Bring Back Our Girls” Movement
“How a local story of girls who have been abducted in an unknown community called Chibok became important and everyone across the world was talking about it”, Bukkey Shonibbare, founder “Girl Child Africa” and one the leaders of B [...]
8 August 2018
by AFP
Ivory Coast ex-first lady Simone Gbagbo freed after amnesty
Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo, who had been serving a 20-year jail term, was released on Wednesday, two days after being amnestied by President Alassane Ouattara. After seven years detention, Gbagbo returned to her h [...]
7 August 2018
by AFP
Ivory Coast leader announces amnesty for Simone Gbagbo and 800 others
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Monday announced amnesties for around 800 people, including former first lady Simone Gbagbo who is currently behind bars, in the name of national reconciliation. Last week Ivory Coast's S [...]
6 August 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Targeting impunity in the CAR, DR Congo and Palestine
MINUSCA, the United Nations mission in the Central African Republic, has called on the nation’s judicial authorities to investigate grave crimes committed in the southeast of the country and take steps to ensure the perpetrators a [...]
6 August 2018
by JusticeInfo.Net
Russia’s involvement in CAR “complicates UN and AU task”
Since the beginning of the year, Russian soldiers have become more and more visible in the Central African Republic, notably the capital Bangui, where some of them are now providing close protection for President Faustin Archange [...]
31 July 2018
by Houda Mzioudet, independent journalist
Mobilizing for social justice: Black Tunisian activism in transitional justice
Introduction: With the end of authoritarianism in Tunisia, transitional justice has become the backbone of a battle for social justice, in particular for long-forgotten minorities including Jews, Amazighs and Blacks. The Tunisia [...]
31 July 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal’s draft transitional justice amendments must be improved, say victims
Civil war victims in Nepal do not accept the government’s latest draft amendment to the Transitional Justice Act (TJA), which is a political compromise. They demand a strong foundation for justice and a guarantee of non-repetition [...]
30 July 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Mali elections raise hopes
The eyes of the world are on Mali, where voters went to the polls on Sunday July 29 in presidential elections. It is hoped these polls will help the country emerge from its current stalemate in implementation of the 2015 peace acc [...]
27 July 2018
by TRIAL International
DRC: High Military Court confirms all condemnations in child rape case
On July 26, 2018, the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (HMC) has confirmed the condemnation of all 11 accused in the Kavumu case. The first instance judgment had seen them condemned for rape as crimes a [...]
26 July 2018
by Sidi AHMED in Bamako
Peace accord criticized as Malians go to the polls
Malians go to the polls on July 29 in presidential elections. Many issues have been discussed in the candidates’ campaign meetings, including the peace agreement signed in 2015 which provides for a transitional justice process. Th [...]
25 July 2018
by YE MON/ Frontier
Controversy, progress at Myanmar's third Panglong peace conference
Although Myanmar's National League for Democracy government had planned to hold the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conferences twice a year, the third session of the gatherings intended to bring an end to civil conflict was po [...]
23 July 2018
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC Information and Outreach for Palestine victims
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ordered the opening of an outreach programme for victims of the situation in Palestine, marking a new twist in the handling of this case. On July 13, 2018, three judges ordered [...]