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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.

C. Africa president says genocide talk 'not justified'
27 September 2017 by AFP
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 [...]
In Nepal Transitional justice in crisis
27 September 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
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 [...]
Guinea: 8 Years Later, Justice for Massacre Needed (NGO)
27 September 2017 by HRW
(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, [...]
Questions and answers on Israeli settlements
26 September 2017 by AFP
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 [...]
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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 [...]
14 September 2017 by AFP
A movie takes on taboos of Lebanon's civil war Nearly three decades after it ended, Lebanon's civil war returned to haunt Beirut this week at a screening of the film "The Insult," which forcefully explores the taboos of the conflict. The movie opened to rave reviews at the Ven [...]
13 September 2017 by AFP
UN council calls for 'immediate steps' to end ethnic cleansing against Rohingyas in Myanmar The UN Security Council on Wednesday broke its weeks-long silence on the crisis in Myanmar and called for an end to the violence as UN chief Antonio Guterres said the military campaign amounted to ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Musl [...]
13 September 2017 by Hein Ko So, Frontier
In Myanmar, former child soldier punished for speaking out In Myanmar, the recent arrest of a man who gave an interview about his past as a child soldier has brought the issue to a wider audience ­but also raised fears about the military’s commitment to ending underage recruitment. Ko Aun [...]
12 September 2017 by Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier
‘That guy should be killed’: Escaping a mob in Maungdaw, Myanmar Hostility greeted three journalists who made a clandestine trip to Maungdaw, in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, late last month after the security operation had began against those behind the August 25 attacks. When 10 journalis [...]
12 September 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
UN genocide warning in Central African Republic reflects powerlessness When should one warn of genocide? Was the UN right to raise the alarm in recent days about a genocidal pattern in the Central African Republic? Is there not a risk that invoking the “crime of crimes” too quickly could devalue the [...]