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.
Lawyer Reed Brody believes Gambian ex-dictator can be brought to justice in Ghana
25 May 2018
by Maxime Domegni
Families of victims of the 2005 massacre of some 50 migrants in The Gambia, along with Ghanaian human rights organizations, launched a new push for the extradition of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh in Accra, Ghana, on Wednes [...]
France upholds landmark Rwandan genocide conviction
24 May 2018
by AFP
France's highest court on Thursday upheld a landmark conviction against a former Rwandan intelligence agent for his role in the country's 1994 genocide. Pascal Simbikangwa, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in 2014 in a trial that mar [...]
24 May 2018
by Ephrem RUGIRIRIZA, JusticeInfo.Net
In a report on the Central African Republic (CAR) published on May 18, Human Rights Watch (HRW) calls for more political and financial support to the Special Criminal Court (SCC), which is being set up to try serious crimes commit [...]
23 May 2018
by Eden Matiyas
One of the most troubling trends of the armed conflict in South Sudan is the use of children as soldiers. South Sudan is among the ten countries with the highest number of child soldiers in the world. Yet political efforts to dis [...]
21 May 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Israeli impunity and Gambian perseverance
This week was marked by the events in Gaza and the possibility that those responsible in Israel might be brought before a court. The violence on May 14, which saw nearly 60 people killed by the Israeli army, has drawn anger and co [...]
17 May 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Swiss judge delivers harsh criticism of Lebanon Tribunal
Robert Roth, professor of law at the University of Geneva and former judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has for the first time explained why he resigned from that court in September 2013. He points in particular to a lack o [...]
17 May 2018
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Palestine to bring Israel before ICC for “war crimes”
The Palestinian Authority is preparing to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes -- a potential key development for a case opened by the Court in 2015. A document referring Israel to the ICC [...]
15 May 2018
by AFP
Burundi: three years of bloody political crisis
The small central African state of Burundi has been mired in a bloody crisis since 2015 over President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to cling to power, the unrest claiming 1,200 lives. The violence has stoked fears of a return to the 19 [...]
13 May 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : Nepali war victims demand real reparations and remembrance
In Nepal, the Conflict Victim Common Platform (CVCP) has submitted an advocacy paper on “reparative needs, rights and demands” to the Justice Minister and the country's two transitional justice bodies, in the hope of creating mome [...]
11 May 2018
by AFP
Kosovo war crimes weigh heavy on Serbian film 'The Load' at Cannes
Serbian director Ognjen Glavonic says the topic of his new film, which tackles the lingering horror of the Kosovo war, probably explains why his script was rejected seven times. "Teret" (The Load), which will screen at Cannes on S [...]
7 May 2018
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Sperisen verdict “gives hope to Guatemalan victims”
A 15-year prison sentence handed down by a Geneva court on former Guatemalan police chief Erwin Sperisen for complicity in the 2006 murder of seven prison inmates is an “important step in the fight against impunity for State crime [...]
6 May 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: ICC and universal jurisdiction slowly making a mark
It was an eventful week for transitional justice. Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo called on the oft-criticized International Criminal Court (ICC), whilst Human Right Watch said the ICC is inciting nation [...]
3 May 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
OPINION: Justice and press freedom go hand in hand
In Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, Joseph K’s friend Ms Burstner says: “I find stories about justice extremely interesting. Justice has a strange power of seduction, don’t you think?” This is a terrible irony given the trial in the [...]
3 May 2018
by Clare Hammond, Frontier
Myanmar facing ICC referral unless ‘proper’ Rakhine probe conducted: UN
Members of the United Nations Security Council have told Myanmar’s leaders there must be a “proper investigation” into a military crackdown in Rakhine State last August, which displaced almost 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Banglades [...]
29 April 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: The importance of remembrance
This week, JusticeInfo.net examined the significance of a memorial to the Armenian genocide recently inaugurated in a Geneva park. “Despite opposition from Ankara, the “Streetlights of Memory” were inaugurated in Geneva after 10 y [...]
27 April 2018
by Institute for security studies
What exactly are foreign troops protecting in the Sahel?
Foreign military footprints, especially those of the United States (US) and France, are expanding in West Africa, particularly in the Sahel. This presence is receiving increasingly hostile public criticism. It is often considered [...]
26 April 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
An Armenian genocide memorial in Geneva to shine light on past and present
After long years the “Streetlights of Memory”, a work by French artist Melik Ohanian, found a home in Geneva on April 13. It first needed the Geneva parliament in 1998 and then the Swiss parliament in 2003 to recognize the Armenia [...]
24 April 2018
by Stéphanie MAUPAS, The Hague
ICC: Reparation process “makes the Court to be relevant to society, beyond the Courtroom”
In 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its first ever verdict in the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga. Since then, there have been two other confirmed convictions of Congolese Germain Katang [...]
