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.
21 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Authorities in Nepal should immediately make public the December 14, 2017 report of a special commission on the Terai violence in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. The High-Level Inquiry Commission was established in 2016 to i [...]
21 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Bullet holes, bloodstains and brain matter marked the walls of an empty barn, a crime scene processed to document the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War: the deliberate killings of more than 7,000 men and boys from t [...]
20 December 2017
by AFP
Security forces and an army-backed militia planned massacres in an opposition stronghold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, human rights activists charged Wednesday, calling the killings "crimes against humanity". The southern K [...]
20 December 2017
by Frontier
Reuters journalists arrests a damning reflection on the state of Myanmar's democratic transition
These are dark days for journalism in Myanmar. LET’S BE CLEAR: The detention of Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo is a brazen attack on the media and the principles of democracy. This is not about national security [...]
19 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
South Sudan: Stop Delays on Hybrid Court, says HRW
South Sudan’s top officials have failed to make good on promises to establish an African Union-South Sudanese hybrid court to try international crimes committed during the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Four [...]
18 December 2017
by AFP
In Myanmar, possibly 'genocide', says UN rights chief
The UN rights chief told AFP Monday that Myanmar clearly "planned" violent attacks on its Rohingya minority, causing a mass-exodus, and warned the crackdown could possibly amount to "genocide". "For us, it was clear... that these [...]
16 December 2017
by François Sergent and Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: DRC, Ethiopia and crime of aggression,
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military court sitting in the little town of Kavumu struck a historic blow for transitional justice in a place where sexual violence and powerful people generally go unpunished. The week also [...]
16 December 2017
by AFP
UN says life terms for DRCongo child rapists a 'major advance'
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday hailed as a "major advance" life sentences served this week on a provincial lawmaker and ten militiamen convicted of raping young girls. The group were jailed for life on [...]
14 December 2017
by Claude Sengenya in Kavumu, South Kivu province of eastern DRC
Historic verdict in DRC child rape trial
It was a historic verdict pronounced on Wednesday December 13 by a military court in South Kivu, eastern DR Congo, in the trial of some 20 members of the Army of Jesus militia (Jeshi la Yesu in Swahili) accused of rape and murder. [...]
13 December 2017
by AFP
Dozen DR Congo child rapists handed life sentences
A dozen militiamen in eastern DR Congo were jailed for life Wednesday for raping about 40 children, including a baby, in what was judged a crime against humanity. The defendants were said to belong to a militia group called "Djesh [...]
13 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Burundi: The Rights Defender Nestor Nibitanga Detained, says HRW
Authorities in Burundi have been holding a human rights activist since November 21, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately release the activist, Nestor Nibitanga, or charge him with a credible offe [...]
12 December 2017
by SU MYAT MON | FRONTIER
In Myanmar, women targeted by human trafficking in Kachin
Women’s groups in Myanmar's Kachin State say understaffed police with inadequate resources are hampering investigations into human trafficking and contributing to a crime wave in Myitkyina, in which women are often the targets. Si [...]
12 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Gambia: Truth Commission to Uncover Jammeh Abuses, says HRW
Gambia’s truth commission bill, to be debated on December 13, 2017, is an important opportunity to shed light on human rights violations committed during the rule of former President Yahya Jammeh, Human Rights Watch said today. Th [...]
11 December 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Was the destruction of Old Mostar Bridge a war crime?
To what extent does the destruction of an architectural masterpiece constitute a war crime if that masterpiece is also used for military purposes? What, too, if the destruction of such a monument, like the Old Mostar Bridge, cause [...]
9 December 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: ICC debates “crime of aggression” as Yemen suffers and Croatia denies
The International Criminal Court’s annual meeting of 123 member countries started this week at the United Nations in New York. This year’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is discussing, among other things, whether the "crime of a [...]
7 December 2017
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Yemen situation worsening faster than we can respond, says ICRC chief
The violent death of former Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh following his implicit offer to make peace with Saudi Arabia, risks fuelling the proxy war in Yemen between Riyadh and Teheran, according to some analysts, while some [...]
7 December 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion: More justice needed for war victims in Nepal
Nepal’s political elites hail the country’s transition from civil war as a success. But commissions for Truth and Reconciliation and on Enforced Disappeared Persons are not independent, and have not so far done their job. Many cas [...]
5 December 2017
by AFP
Possible 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar: UN rights chief
The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible "elements of genocide". Speaking before a special session of the UN Human R [...]