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.
DR Congo: Bodies of Two UN Experts Found
31 March 2017
by Human Rights Watch
4 Congolese Still Missing Update March 28, 2017: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, confirmed on March 28, 2017, that the bodies of Zaida Catalán, a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an A [...]
29 March 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
In Myanmar, the start of a democratic transition in 2010 and the arrival in power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in early 2016 raised much hope. But the military still holds considerable power. Conflicts [...]
29 March 2017
by Human Rights Watch
First Lady’s Acquittal Highlights ICC Process As Critical Path for Victims. (Nairobi) – The acquittal in Côte d’Ivoire of former Ivorian first lady Simone Gbagbo for crimes against humanity based on a process marred by fair trial [...]
28 March 2017
by AFP
An Ivory Coast jury on Tuesday acquitted former first lady Simone Gbagbo of crimes against humanity during the 2010-11 post-election crisis in a stunning verdict after the prosecution had sought to jail her for life. "A majority o [...]
27 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Universal jurisdiction gains ground from Pinochet to Syria
Universal jurisdiction is making slow but steady progress as a tool against impunity, and not only in Europe. This is according to a report published on Monday March 27 by five human rights organizations. Forty-seven people suspec [...]
27 March 2017
by François Sergent (JusticeInfo.net)
Week in Review: Focus on victims at the International Criminal Court
Reparations are one of the four pillars of transitional justice (along with truth, justice and the guarantee of non-repetition), and this week the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered for the first time that some small indiv [...]
27 March 2017
by Kelli Muddell, Director of the ICTJ's Gender Justice Program and Sibley Hawkins, ICTJ Program Officer
Tunisia : Men and Boys Are Victims Of Sexual Violence, Too
Something unusual happened on the first day of the public hearings being held by Tunisia’s national Truth and Dignity Commission. Sami Brahim came forward to give personal testimony of having survived sexual violence in prison dur [...]
27 March 2017
by Oliver Windridge Counsel at the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, Washington D.C
International Criminal Justice in Africa: Examining African Alternatives to the ICC
In 2016 the threat of mass withdrawals from the ICC once again came into prominence. Since the turn of the year, whilst the threat remains a real concern to many observers, it has been somewhat tempered by Gambia’s and South Afric [...]
24 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC grants first individual reparations to victims
The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided on March 24 that victims of crimes committed by convicted Congolese militiaman Germain Katanga will get both individual and collective reparations. This is the first time that the Co [...]
23 March 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Justice for victims at heart of ICC credibility, says Open Society
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to decide on March 24 what reparations to grant victims of former Congolese militiaman Germain Katanga, whom it sentenced in 2014 to 12 years in jail for crimes against humanity. To date, [...]
22 March 2017
by Human Rights Watch
HRW : War Crimes in Libya as Benghazi Residents Flee
Libyan National Army (LNA) forces may have committed war crimes, including killing and beating civilians, and summarily executing and desecrating bodies of opposition fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi on and around March 18 [...]
22 March 2017
by AFP
ICC jails ex-Congo VP for bribing witnesses
Judges on Wednesday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000 euros for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial in an unprecedented case before the International Crim [...]
22 March 2017
by AFP
ICC poised to make first awards to war crimes' victims
Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal's first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003 attack on a Congolese village. Fr [...]
21 March 2017
by JusticeInfo
Genocide in Rwanda : Former aide of ex-Rwandan President Habyarimana freed in Germany
Frankfurt (Germany) – A close aide of former Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana, who had been detained in Germany since July 2016 on allegations of involvement in the 1994 genocide, was released on Monday, JusticeInfo has learn [...]
21 March 2017
by John Walubengo
Kenya: will technology deliver a free election ?
Elections present a milestone beyond which countries either strengthen their democratic credentials or become failed states. Often states fail when there are either perceived or blatant election malpractices. This in turn can lead [...]
21 March 2017
by Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University
Hannah Arendt or the power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism
“The Origins of Totalitarianism” discusses the rise of the totalitarian movements of Nazism and Stalinism to power in the 20th century. Arendt explained that such movements depended on the unconditional loyalty of the masses of [...]
20 March 2017
by Su Myat Mon, Frontier
Rakhine camps must close, says Myanmar's Annan Advisory Commission
The office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar has accepted the recommendations of an advisory panel led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which also call for the perpetrators of human rights violations to be [...]
20 March 2017
by AFP
Pope begs God's forgiveness for Church sins in Rwanda genocide
Pope Francis on Monday begged for God's forgiveness for "the sins and failings of the Church and its members" implicated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide that killed around 800,000 people. The pontiff "conveyed his profound sadness, an [...]
20 March 2017
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Steps towards justice for a forgotten genocide
Transitional justice this week caught up with the colonial German army’s genocide of Herero and Nama people in Namibia in 1904, seen as the first genocide in history. A New York judge accepted a complaint filed by descendants of H [...]