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.
South Sudan: Stop Delays on Hybrid Court, says HRW
19 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
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
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
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 [...]
UN says life terms for DRCongo child rapists a 'major advance'
16 December 2017
by AFP
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1 December 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: ICTY suicide and children’s war drawings question international justice
Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak’s suicide in court, just as he was being sentenced to 20 years in jail, puts a tragic final end to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It is with those images, [...]
1 December 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Justice leaves a bitter taste in the Balkans
This December 21, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will close its doors. Never have so many crimes provoked so much investigative work. Never has a war been so documented, examined and analysed [...]
1 December 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Children’s drawings as evidence of war crimes
“Deflagrations: Children’s drawings and adult wars”, a book published by Anamosa, recounts war in 150 children’s drawings. The book is accompanied by an exhibition until December 16 at the André Malraux médiathèque in Strasbourg. [...]
30 November 2017
by AFP
ICC won't prosecute Israel over deadly flotilla raid
The International Criminal Court will not prosecute Israel over the deadly raid on a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza in May 2010, it was announced Thursday. "I have ultimately decided to reaffirm my previous decisio [...]
30 November 2017
by AFP
History of the ex-Yugoslav war crimes court
The final verdict of the UN war crimes court for former Yugoslavia was its most dramatic, with a Bosnian Croat commander committing suicide in front of judges who had just upheld his sentence. Here is a snapshot of the Internation [...]