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.
Geneva conference on Kosovo: a judicial and a humanitarian approach to find the 1658 missing persons
3 July 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor
In contexts of political violence, one of the worst forms of psychological torture is not to know what happened to loved ones. And it gets worse with time. Has that person been taken by the army or an armed group? Have they been a [...]
3 July 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
The Prosecutor of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic (CAR), Colonel Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa, and five Central African judges for the Court were sworn in on Friday June 30 Bangui. This ceremony ma [...]
29 June 2017
by Sing Lee, Frontier
Myanmar's fifth Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival was an insight into how far the country has progressed in its political transition, with some liberalizatation but a film on conflict in Rakhine state still ba [...]
29 June 2017
by JusticeInfo.Net
Three non-governmental organizations on Thursday filed a lawsuit against French bank BNP Paribas for “complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes”, they announced. Anti-corruption group Sherpa, the Collective of [...]
28 June 2017
by Nyan Hlaing Lynn, Frontier
Myanmar journalists face jail for meeting rebel group
NAY PYI TAW — Three journalists detained by Myanmar's military in northern Shan State have been transferred into police custody in Hsipaw and formally charged with Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act, Frontier has been [...]
28 June 2017
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Families of 1,658 Kosovo disappeared still searching for their loved ones
A two-day conference this week in Geneva aims to relaunch the process of identifying 1,658 people who disappeared during the war in Kosovo (1998-1999). On the eve of the conference, families of Serb and Kosovar victims together ur [...]
28 June 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Illegal natural resource trade “fuelling” grave human rights crimes in Africa
Is there a link between illegal trafficking and so-called “international” crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes? That is not always the case, but the looting of natural resources sometimes gives armed groups [...]
24 June 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
“No peace for the CAR while armed groups hold balance of power”
Thierry Vircoulon, a researcher at the French International Relations Institute (IFRI), lectures on security issues in Africa. In an interview with JusticeInfo.Net, he is pessimistic about the chances that a ceasefire for the Cent [...]
24 June 2017
by AFP
S.Africa confronts apartheid-era custody deaths by police
The brutal death of anti-apartheid campaigner Ahmed Timol was allowed to go quietly unsolved in the interests of South Africa's democratic reconciliation. But now more than 45 years after he fell from a 10th-floor window at a noto [...]
23 June 2017
by AFP
Top Khmer Rouge leader denies genocide at close of UN-backed trial
One of the top surviving leaders of Cambodia's ruthless Khmer Rouge regime on Friday denied genocide charges and rejected the label of "murderer" in forceful closing remarks at a lengthy UN-backed trial. The Khmer Rouge's former h [...]
23 June 2017
by David Tolbert
USA : Addressing Our Tortured History, One Monument at a Time
The recent remarks of Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordering the removal of monuments honoring confederate leaders from New Orleans stands out as an important moment of moral clarity and civic courage for our country. The question is, how [...]
22 June 2017
by AFP
Mosul minaret destruction 'deepens wounds' of Iraqis: UNESCO
The destruction by jihadists of Mosul's leaning minaret "deepens the wounds" in war-torn Iraq, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova said Thursday. Calling in a statement for "immediate and strengthened international mobilisation," the head o [...]
21 June 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Government cynicism and the transitional justice dream in crisis
What a revealing new development in terms of government attitudes towards international justice: Twenty years ago, it was a source of immense hope, but now it has been reduced to begging from the public to fund the International M [...]
21 June 2017
by Laura Cools & Brisna Caxaj, Impunity Watch
Guatemala: How the Sepur Zarco Women lifted impunity for sexual violence
“The verdict has been obtained, justice has been achieved; sadness is no longer”, states Demecia Yat, President of the Jalok U Collective, which gathers survivors of sexual violence and armed conflict from Sepur Zarco and surround [...]
20 June 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Civil society calls for Syria justice funding as UN drags its feet
An organization supporting Syrian civil society has launched a call for funding to support the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria. This Mechanism, approved by the UN General Assembly in December 20 [...]
20 June 2017
by AFP
UN court to review genocide conviction against a former Rwandan minister
A UN tribunal has agreed to review its appeals judgement against a former Rwandan minister found guilty of genocide crimes, a case blocked for months by the detention of one of the court's top judges. In a statement released Monda [...]
20 June 2017
by Sithu Aung Myint, Frontier
The challenge of forging a new army in Myanmar
One of the greatest challenges of the peace process in Myanmar will be to decide what kind of national army ("Tatmadaw") will be most compatible with the people’s aspirations for a future democratic federal Union. During the secon [...]
19 June 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
“Terminator” tells ICC he tried to help civilians in Congo
Former Congolese militiaman Bosco Ntaganda has been testifying in his own defence since June 14 before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Ituri, eastern D [...]
19 June 2017
by Human Rights Watch
How Equatorial Guinea Turned Corruption into an Art Form
For the past two decades, Equatorial Guinea has been one of Africa’s largest oil producers and on paper, it is a middle-income economy. Yet instead of spending the country’s oil riches on improving life for ordinary Equatorial Gui [...]