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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.

Uganda’s amnesty law and the peace/justice dilemma
10 July 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
A new amnesty law for Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters has been before the Ugandan parliament has since 2015. It would put an end to the existing ambiguity between the general amnesty law of 2000, which is currently in force, [...]
Week in Review: Impunity in Mexico, disappointment in Georgia
10 July 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Transitional justice can take different forms. This week several international and national NGOs called in The Hague for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes in Mexico. They accuse State authorities of “col [...]
Rodrigo Duterte’s first year: a human rights disaster the world prefers to ignore
10 July 2017 by Tom Smith
Rodrigo Duterte’s first year as president of the Philippines should never be forgotten – for all the wrong reasons. For those directly affected by his brutal and lawless “war on drugs”, which has claimed the lives of thousands of [...]
ICC blames South Africa and UN for failure to arrest Sudanese President
7 July 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have deemed that South Africa flouted its duties to the Court when it failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir. But the judges also blamed the UN Security Council for inac [...]
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6 July 2017 by AFP
Togo purges its violent past with voodoo ceremonies The voodoo follower stood bare-chested with beads around his neck in the centre of the public square in Bè, a working class district of Togo's capital, Lome. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made incantations, threw soil and w [...]
5 July 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
“If the ICC fails in Georgia, it will be the same in Afghanistan and Palestine" Lawyer Nika Jeiranashvili has been based in The Hague for the Open Society for nearly a year monitoring progress of the Georgia case before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In January 2016, ICC judges authorized the opening [...]
5 July 2017 by Human Rights Watch
Central African Republic: Civilians Targeted in War Armed groups in the Central African Republic have killed civilians with wholesale impunity, spurring more violence in the war-torn country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 92-page report, “Killing Without C [...]
4 July 2017 by AFP
Burundi becoming a 'violent dictatorship': report Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and his ruling party have moved the country toward violent dictatorship, rights groups said Tuesday in a report that slams the international community for inaction. A "purge" of ethnic Tutsis [...]
3 July 2017 by Frontier
Where to now for the UN in Myanmar? The lack of a unified message from the UN has weakened its influence on the Myanmar government in the Rakhine conflict.The battle within the United Nations country team over the direction of its work on human rights, particularly [...]
3 July 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor
Geneva conference on Kosovo: a judicial and a humanitarian approach to find the 1658 missing persons 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
Central African Special Court: Don’t forget victims, say NGOs, as Prosecutor sworn in 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
Film festival reflects state of Myanmar transition 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
French bank BNP accused of “complicity” in Rwanda genocide 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 [...]