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.
Africa takes heart in Kenya election ruling
3 September 2017
by AFP
Opposition leaders across Africa, long frustrated in their campaigns to topple firmly entrenched leaders, are hailing the shock overturn of last month's presidential vote in Kenya, calling it an example for their own countries to [...]
31 August 2017
by David Tolbert
Nearly every city and village in Syria has a story to tell about enforced disappearances: civilians being snatched off the streets or from their homes by the police, Syrian military or an armed group, never to be heard from again. [...]
UN says Venezuela policies designed to 'instil fear'
30 August 2017
by AFP
The widespread rights abuses committed against protestors in Venezuela indicate that the country has implemented a policy of repression aimed at instilling fear in the population, the UN said Wednesday. A fresh UN report warned th [...]
30 August 2017
by Patricia Gossman
As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, learning the fate of the tens of thousands of Afghans who have been victims of enforced disappearance over the past four decades seems ever more remote. For the [...]
30 August 2017
by AFP
18,500 Rohingya cross into Bangladesh since fresh Myanmar fighting: IOM
At least 18,500 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh in the last six days since renewed fighting broke out between militants and the army in neighbouring Myanmar, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. "As of l [...]
30 August 2017
by Pierre Hazan
Lawyer who felled Habré to pursue Gambian Yahya Jammeh
Human rights lawyer Reed Brody became known for working with the victims of General Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Haitian ex-dictator Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier. More recently, Brody was counsel for victims of former Chadia [...]
29 August 2017
by Derek W. Black
Charlottesville is part of our nation’s moral reckoning
The number and exuberance of white nationalists who descended on Charlottesville sent emotional tremors through the nation. Some worried that this was the beginning of an expanding movement that would hearken us back to darker tim [...]
29 August 2017
by Mark Kersten
Pre-Meditated Madness, the International Criminal Court, and Preliminary Examinations
Attention among observers and scholars of international criminal justice has increasingly focused on what happens before the International Criminal Court (ICC) intervenes in a situation and issues arrest warrants for perpetrators [...]
29 August 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Disappeared in Nepal : The survivors'unanswered questions
Every year, as part of the global movement against enforced disappearances, we commemorate the International Day Against Enforced Disappearance. On this day, we, raise up the voices of families affected by enforced disappearance, [...]
28 August 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC should give victims free choice of lawyers, says Human Rights Watch
In a new report, Human Rights Watch argues that victims should have free choice of lawyer to represent them at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The report, published on August 29, is entitled "Who will stand for us? Victims [...]
27 August 2017
by ICRC
Ukraine: Unbearable uncertainty for families of the missing
For more than three years, eastern Ukraine has suffered conflict. Amid the world’s many other humanitarian crises, in Syria, or in Yemen for example, it can be easy to forget Ukraine. But the UN estimates that 10,000 people have l [...]
25 August 2017
by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Disunity over the past
Looking again at a divided past is part of transitional justice. How can a country, an institution come to terms with the memory of a past which still divides people? Sylvie Wuhrmann, director of the Fondation de l’Hermitage art g [...]
24 August 2017
by AFP
Annan 's Commission calls on Myanmar to end Rohingya repression
Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said Thursday. Rights g [...]
23 August 2017
by AFP
UN aid chief warns of signs of genocide in Central African Republic
United Nations aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council Tuesday there are early signs of genocide in the violence-plagued Central African Republic, according to diplomats. O'Brien made his remarks in a closed-door meeti [...]
22 August 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Post-Charlottesville: Should we write off the past?
The French revolutionaries dreamed of writing off the past. But it is not so easy to throw the legacy of time past into the dustbin of history when it directly affects the present and future. This is the drama that played out rece [...]
21 August 2017
by François Sergent (JusticeInfo.net)
Week in Review: Focus on reparations
The week in transitional justice was marked by the International Criminal Court’s decision on reparations to be paid following the 2012 destruction of mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali. The sum awarded ( 2.7 million Euros) is symbolic [...]
18 August 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Malian Jihadist ordered to pay 2.7 million Euros in reparations to Timbuktu victims
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down on Thursday August 17 their reparations order for the victims of Ahmed Al Mahdi. Al Mahdi, who has been convicted by the Court, pleaded guilty to war crimes for the dest [...]
18 August 2017
by HRW
Rwanda: Presidential Elections in a context of very limited open political space, according to HRW
(Nairobi) – Presidential elections in Rwanda on August 4, 2017, took place in a context of very limited free speech or open political space, Human Rights Watch said today, as President Paul Kagame is sworn in for a seven-year term [...]
16 August 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC issues arrest warrant for Libyan strongman ally
On Tuesday August 15, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a new arrest warrant for crimes committed in Libya. Mahmoud al- Werfalli, an ally of Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar, is suspected of war crimes for murde [...]