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.
Week in Review: Transitional justice under pressure in Tunisia and Myanmar
1 October 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
The difficulties of transitional justice were illustrated this week in countries as diverse as Tunisia, Burundi, Myanmar and Nepal. In Tunisia, a JusticeInfo investigation showed how abuses by the President of the Truth and Digni [...]
1 October 2017
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
The crisis that has been taking place in Myanmar since August – an attack by Muslim rebels, bloody clampdown by the army and flight to Bangladesh of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya people – has provoked outrage across the [...]
29 September 2017
by AFP
Nearly 90 non-governmental organizations have denounced "crimes against humanity" committed by authorities in Myanmar against the Muslim Rohingya minority and called on the international community to take action. Half a million Ro [...]
29 September 2017
by HRW
(Nairobi, September 29, 2017) – Rwandan authorities have arrested, forcibly disappeared, and threatened political opponents since the August 2017 presidential elections, Human Rights Watch said today. The incumbent, Paul Kagame, w [...]
28 September 2017
by AFP
African vote throws UN Burundi abuse probe into question
The UN rights council voted Thursday to send experts to help authorities in crisis-wracked Burundi to investigate violations, casting doubt on whether an independent international probe would be allowed to continue. The resolution [...]
27 September 2017
by AFP
C. Africa president says genocide talk 'not justified'
The president of the Central African Republic pushed back Wednesday against UN warnings of looming genocide in his country, saying the complex crisis could not be reduced to religious and ethnic strife. "We think that to talk abou [...]
27 September 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
In Nepal Transitional justice in crisis
How can Truth Commissions function properly in a place like Nepal where alleged perpetrators set the agenda and control the commissioners in a situation of continuing insecurity where both victims and witnesses cannot speak out op [...]
27 September 2017
by HRW
Guinea: 8 Years Later, Justice for Massacre Needed (NGO)
(Conakry) – Guinea should move ahead to deliver justice, truth, and reparation for the grave crimes committed on September 28, 2009, at a Conakry stadium, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Association of Victims, [...]
26 September 2017
by AFP
Questions and answers on Israeli settlements
A Palestinian gunman opened fire at an entrance to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killing three security personnel and wounding another. Here are some key questions and answers on Israeli [...]
24 September 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: When failure to tackle impunity hinders peace
The exodus and massacre of Rohingyas, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, marked the week in transitional justice. French President Emmanuel Macron said this was “genocide”, while the UN Secretary General called it ethnic [...]
24 September 2017
by Yi-Li Lee
Women’s Victimization in Transitional Justice and their Fight : The Story of Taiwan
Women, even though they were main victims of Taiwan’s authoritarian regime, have been largely absent from the transitional justice mechanisms after Taiwan successfully transformed into a democracy. Following the discussion of wome [...]
21 September 2017
by AFP
Are Myanmar's Rohingya facing genocide or ethnic cleansing?
Muslim Rohingya fleeing their homes in Myanmar are facing "ethnic cleansing" but whether they are victims of genocide remains unclear, international justice experts told AFP. About 422,000 refugees from the stateless Muslim minori [...]
21 September 2017
by HRW
Myanmar: Satellite Imagery Shows Mass Destruction
(New York) – New analysis of satellite imagery from Burma’s Rakhine State shows the near total destruction of 214 villages, Human Rights Watch said today. World leaders meeting at the United Nations should urgently adopt a General [...]
20 September 2017
by Engy Abdelkader, JD, LL.M.
The persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya goes back to independence
Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year. The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group [...]
19 September 2017
by Sithu Aung Myint, Frontier
The Rakhine crisis in Myanmar and the government’s options
The Myanmar government’s policy options for troubled Rakhine state are a choice between an army strategy focused on the 1982 Citizenship Law or implementing recommendations in the final report by the Annan commission. The coordina [...]
19 September 2017
by AFP
French, Rwandan presidents hold rare meeting amid tense diplomatic ties
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in New York for rare talks, Kigali said Tuesday, as diplomatic ties remain icy over the 1994 genocide. Kigali has long accused France of complicity [...]
19 September 2017
by Pierre Hazan
Central African Republic: 12 peace plans in 10 years and still at war
In the last ten years, the Central African Republic has had a dozen peace plans. None have ever been implemented. Here we look back and analyse this serial failure, as people close to armed groups are admitted into government. Thi [...]
18 September 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: How words count in transitional justice
Transitional justice is also a question of words, like genocide or ethnic cleansing, resonant with bloody memories of Rwanda or the Balkans. Short of words to describe the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar’s army, UN Secreta [...]
18 September 2017
by AFP
Carla Del Ponte blasts impunity in farewell speech
Outgoing Syria war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte said on Monday she had quit her post out of frustration over "total impunity", in a fiery farewell speech. Del Ponte, an accomplished war crimes prosecutor, announced last mon [...]