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.
Women’s Victimization in Transitional Justice and their Fight : The Story of Taiwan
24 September 2017
by Yi-Li Lee
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 [...]
Are Myanmar's Rohingya facing genocide or ethnic cleansing?
21 September 2017
by AFP
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
(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.
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 [...]
12 September 2017
by Fabio Andres Diaz
Colombia's FARC rebels need a leader
Ever since Colombia signed its fragile, contested peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in November 2016, the big question has been: What will this no-longer-armed insurgency do next? On Aug. 28, t [...]
12 September 2017
by AFP
Saudi-led strikes against children 'war crimes' in Yeman : HRW
A series of Saudi-led coalition air strikes which killed 26 children in Yemen in June amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. "The attacks, which struck four family homes and a grocery, in one case killing 14 memb [...]
11 September 2017
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Transitional justice challenges in Burundi, Myanmar and Mali
The transitional justice week was marked by the publication of a new report on Burundi by the UN Human Rights Council. This report is even more damning than the previous one with regard to this small country in the Great Lakes reg [...]
11 September 2017
by AFP
Assad may win war but will preside over a ruined Syria
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears to be winning the war against those who sought his overthrow, but he will preside over a ruined country with an economy in tatters. "Assad remains in charge of most of the population and m [...]
8 September 2017
by HRW
Unchecked Abuses by the Malian Army, according to HRW
Mali and Burkina Faso military operations to counter the growing presence of Islamist armed groups in central Mali have resulted in serious human rights violations. Since late 2016, Malian forces have committed extrajudicial kill [...]