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.
Armenian 'genocide': the disputed massacres of 1915-17
23 February 2018
by AFP
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
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 [...]
Enclaves bombarded by the Syrian regime
21 February 2018
by AFP
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 [...]
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 [...]
8 February 2018
by AFP
The US-led coalition in Syria: a timeline
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group has avoided involvement in Syria's civil war, but on Thursday it said it killed more than 100 pro-regime fighters in the country. The international coalition was set up in 2014 [...]
8 February 2018
by AFP
ICC probing alleged crimes in Philippines, Venezuela
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled new probes focusing on the deadly war on drugs in the Philippines and alleged abuses during Venezuela's political unrest. The unprecedented decision to launch [...]
8 February 2018
by Marlies Stappers, Thomas Unger
EU’s Balkan Strategy Misses Chance to Tackle Past Injustice
The European Commission presented its strategy for the Western Balkans on Tuesday, giving countries in the region a clear perspective for EU accession.This is to be welcomed, and there is no discussion that the future of the regio [...]
7 February 2018
by Tomasz Lachowski
Poland : "Fighting for historical truth with a penal code is the matter of weak states"
Reckoning with past evils never is an easy task. Undoubtedly, fighting for historical truth appears as an inherent right of each and every nation, what corresponds to the freely chosen shape of the politics of memory of a given st [...]
6 February 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Poland tries to rewrite Holocaust history
After putting pressure on the judicial system and the media, Poland’s authorities are now clamping down on how the country’s Second World War history is told. This authoritarian trend is worrying the European Union. January 27 mar [...]
6 February 2018
by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Gambia: Many Jammeh loyalists still in high posts, says human rights defender
A year after the fall of Yahya Jammeh’s bloody 22-year dictatorship, there is a wind of freedom blowing in The Gambia. But, at the same time, many Gambians are worried that the new government is trying to do “new things with old f [...]