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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.

Week in Review: Rule of law under threat in Tanzania and Tunisia
4 March 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Tanzania is one of the rare African countries known for being peaceful, democratic and multi-ethnic. Its revered former long-time president Julius Nyerere decided, unlike many of his counterparts, to withdraw from power in 1985. B [...]
Tanzania's legendary "tranquillity" under threat
4 March 2018 by JusticeInfo.Net
Since President John Magufuli’s election in late 2015, Tanzania has been losing its reputation as a haven of “peace and tranquillity” previously envied by its neighbours. Murders and attempted murders of opponents, suspension of m [...]
Sri Lanka launches probe into war-era disappearances
1 March 2018 by AFP
Sri Lanka has appointed commissioners to a special panel tasked with investigating war-era disappearances, three years after President Maithripala Sirisena was elected promising justice for victims of the island's bloody ethnic co [...]
ICC under fire for internal mismanagement
26 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is again under fire for bad governance. In late January the International Labour Organization (ILO) handed down six judgments denouncing the “illegal” nature of steps taken by ICC Registrar H [...]
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26 February 2018 by SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER
Myanmar's government, the Rakhine crisis and media access The Myanmar government’s response to an Associated Press report about civilians buried in a mass grave at a northern Rakhine village has again focused attention on a counterproductive media access ban to the area imposed nearly fi [...]
26 February 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: ICC internal management, Tunisia and DRC This transitional justice week saw an investigation by our correspondent in The Hague into the administrative problems of the International Criminal Court, whose staff management has been sanctioned. This is a singular situation f [...]
23 February 2018 by AFP
UN wants prosecutions for S,Sudan war crimes A UN rights commission in South Sudan said Friday there was sufficient evidence to charge at least 41 senior officers and officials with war crimes and crimes against humanity. South Sudan's four-year-old civil war has been charac [...]
23 February 2018 by AFP
Armenian 'genocide': the disputed massacres of 1915-17 Armenia and Turkey are at odds over whether the World War I massacres and deportations of Armenians by their Ottoman rulers should be described as genocide. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915 and [...]
22 February 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Unfair ISIS Trial in Iraq Hands Women Harshest Sentences Six months after about 1,400 foreign women and children surrendered with Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to Iraqi security forces, Iraq’s courts are sentencing the women to life in prison and even to death for non-violent crimes. It [...]
21 February 2018 by AFP
Enclaves bombarded by the Syrian regime Before Eastern Ghouta there was Homs, Aleppo, Daraya -- rebel towns and enclaves that the Syrian regime pounded and besieged, forcing fighters to give up their arms and civilians to flee. - Homs - Syria's third city Homs was dubbe [...]
19 February 2018 by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Human Rights Watch slams police brutality and slow reform in Tunisia Human Rights Watch recently published two reports on the human rights situation in Tunisia. One concerns police brutality during a wave of protests in January 2018, and the second is part of a 2018 World Report on human rights sit [...]
18 February 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Reconciliation as the key to a successful transition In the wide domain of “transitional justice”, reconciliation processes are the key to transition, as we see in many countries.    Mali, for example, is showing this once again through its weaknesses, as Justiceinfo’s Bamako corres [...]
15 February 2018 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion: Nepal’s victims want real results from transitional justice The one-year extensions of Nepal’s two transitional justice mechanisms without necessary legal and institutional reforms ordered by the Supreme Court and the United Nations are insufficient to comply with international standards,  [...]
15 February 2018 by Fabio Cascardo
Brazil: Court decision puts spotlight on crimes against indigenous people In a historic decision regarding crimes against humanity committed by the military dictatorship (1964-1985) against the indigenous Kinja people (also known as Waimiri-Atroari), the Brazilian Federal Justice of the state of Amazona [...]
13 February 2018 by AFP
South Africa: a giant of Africa South Africa is the continent's most industrialised economy and among its most developed, but marked by gaping inequalities rooted in years of racist white-minority rule that ended in 1994. - Apartheid - Black South Africans, arou [...]
12 February 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Amnesia in Poland, violence in Venezuela and the Philippines Poland’s adoption of a controversial law on the history of the Holocaust marked the transitional justice week. Once again, a country is trying to impose its vision of history through law and close all debate on its past. The text [...]
12 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
How political violence can become criminal violence According to the Gallup survey institute, the five most dangerous countries in the world in 2017 were Venezuela, South Africa, El Salvador, South Sudan and Liberia. With the exception of Venezuela, they have all been through civil [...]
11 February 2018 by AFP
PM calls on Poles to avoid "unnecessary anti-Semitic jokes" Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called on Poles to refrain from making anti-Semitic statements at a time when the country is under fire over a controversial Holocaust law. The new law sets fines or a maximum thr [...]
8 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Wake up to suffering of Georgian victims, NGOs tell international court In a report published on February 5, human rights organizations express concern for the situation of victims of the summer 2008 Russia-Georgia war.  Two years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened an investigation, t [...]