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: The high price of impunity in Syria and CAR
11 August 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
This week was marked by the resignation of Swiss war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the UN commission investigating crimes in Syria. “This commission does absolutely nothing," explained Del Ponte, accusing UN Security Coun [...]
10 August 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Dozens of people have been killed in recent weeks of fighting between armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR), as a UN official warned of possible genocide. In this interview Didier Niewiadowski, jurist and former advis [...]
Deadly C. Africa clashes raise genocide fears
8 August 2017
by AFP
Witness reports of killings in the Central African Republic, some targeting aid workers, piled up Tuesday as the UN said it saw "early signs of a genocide" in the conflict-wracked nation. At least 60 people have been killed in rec [...]
UN sees early warning signs of genocide in C. Africa
8 August 2017
by AFP
Renewed clashes in the Central African Republic are early warning signs of genocide, the UN aid chief said Monday, calling for more troops and police to beef up the UN peacekeeping mission in the strife-torn country. Some 180,000 [...]
8 August 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Syria and the lessons to be learned from Carla Del Ponte’s resignation
Criminals like to commit their crimes in the dark. It is on this assumption that justice must be seen to be done if it is to help prevent crime. And so metaphorically, good triumphs over evil and light over darkness. In internatio [...]
8 August 2017
by AFP
HRW says Israel stripping Palestinians of Jerusalem residency 'war crime'
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday Israel had stripped nearly 15,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem of their right to live in the city since 1967 and warned that it could be a "war crime." "Israel claims to treat Jerusalem as a unified [...]
7 August 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: DR Congo, Tunisia, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire
In this week’s transitional justice review, a rebel leader wanted for crimes against humanity is handed over to the authorities in Kinshasa, civil society in Côte d’Ivoire calls for support to victims raped during the 2010-2011 po [...]
6 August 2017
by AFP
Veteran prosecutor to quit UN Syria probe that 'does nothing'
Veteran former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who is on a UN commission probing rights abuses in Syria, has said she intends to resign because the body "does absolutely nothing". "I am frustrated, I give up," she told the [...]
6 August 2017
by Marcie Mersky (ICTJ)
A Noble Dream: The Tenacious Pursuit of Justice in Guatemala
Bring General Ríos Montt and other high-ranking members of the military to trial in the Guatemalan courts for genocide? In 1999 it was a noble dream for justice for the thousands of Mayan victims of the country’s civil war, and fo [...]
2 August 2017
by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
Doubts and Division in Guinea, as President hints at third term
The possibility of a third term for President Alpha Condé is dividing Guinea. Condé himself has made same indications that he wants to run again, but has refused to make an official pronouncement. His supporters are not hiding the [...]
31 July 2017
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Guilt and denial at Tunisia’s Truth Commission hearings
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission launched its public hearings on November 17, 2016 to shed light on nearly 60 years of human rights abuses. With 10 of the 20 planned hearings now having taken place, we look at the Commission [...]
30 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: The thorny issue of reparations
There is no justice without reparations. That is all the more true when it comes to international crimes. But the mechanisms of reparation are still problematic, whether at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or in national tra [...]
28 July 2017
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Tunisians tell Truth Commission of stolen elections
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has already held ten of its 20 planned public hearings. The last one, on July 21, examined the issue of electoral fraud under former presidents Bourguiba and Beni Ali. Mohamed Bennour, an act [...]
26 July 2017
by AFP
DR Congo warlord accused of crimes against humanity surrenders
Congolese rebel warlord Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, wanted for crimes against humanity including mass rape, surrendered to UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday. Sheka was arrested in Mutongo, in the country's [...]
24 July 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal’s Transitional Justice mechanism "a road to nowhere"
The existing transitional justice (TJ) system in Nepal fails to open avenues for social justice as it is envisioned and demanded at the local level. Rather, the current system promotes a gap between the mainstream (i.e. the State) [...]
24 July 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Palestinian civil society urges the ICC to act
Lawyers representing 448 named victims and 42 Palestinian civil society organizations have presented to International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda a thick file of complaints against Israeli settlement, its blockade of [...]
23 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: International Justice becomes reality, despite the challenges
The week just ended began with an anniversary: International Justice Day. Despite criticism -- both founded and unfounded – and numerous challenges still to be met, international criminal justice will go down in the history of Hu [...]
21 July 2017
by Angela Mudukuti
Non-Compliance But No Referral-The ICC Muddies the Waters
Angela Mudukuti joins us for this take on the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding South Africa’s failure to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the ICC. Angela Mudukuti is an internat [...]