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.
Truth seeking in Brazil: traps and trends
24 April 2017
by Fabio Cascardo
Over the last years Brazil passed through an important period of reflexion regarding its authoritarian past, in a Transitional Justice process led by the National Truth Commission (CNV). The CNV was established (Law nº 12.528/2011 [...]
24 April 2017
by Arrey Ojong Eyumeneh
Whenever there are serious and /or massive human rights violations within a community or a State, victims, their family members and eye witnesses tend to seek justice and truth about what happened to their loved ones. To ensure th [...]
24 April 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
On April 13th, 2017 The Supreme Court of Nepal issued an arrest warrant for Balkrishna Dhungel, a Maoist leader and former parliamentarian, who was convicted of a murder that took place during the Nepal’s Armed Conflict. Supreme C [...]
23 April 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
History resonates with time, and the crimes of the past cannot be erased from memory as if with the stroke of a pen. And so this week in the Central African Republic (CAR), courageous NGOs said no to amnesty and impunity. Accordi [...]
23 April 2017
by Rakiya Omaar and Caitlin Lambert
Rethinking customary law in Somaliland: specific jurisdiction for rape to promote post-conflict development
Somaliland does not enjoy international recognition as an independent state, but it does have what its people regard as their most precious asset : peace. After seceding from Somalia in May 1991, following a prolonged and bloody [...]
21 April 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Gambia: Justice for Jammeh-Era Abuses Crucial
New Government Should Develop Roadmap for Prosecutions (Nairobi) – Gambia’s government should act to prosecute those responsible for grave crimes committed during the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh. Fair trials are crucial for victi [...]
20 April 2017
by International Green parties *
International Criminal Justice Should Tackle Environmental Destruction
The intensive exploitation of natural resources triggers serious environmental destruction locally that has serious consequences on the global ecosytem. Based on this scientific fact, the Global Greens ask to reorganize internatio [...]
19 April 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Turkish obstruction keeps Geneva’s Armenian genocide memorial in public eye
The irony is that Turkey, by blocking for years the construction of a memorial in Geneva to the Armenian genocide, has made this monument more alive than if it had been built, if only because of the passions it arouses. Austrian [...]
18 April 2017
by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
Guinea plans a Truth Commission
A national workshop in Conakry of government and civil society representatives has approved a Bill to set up a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Guinea. This is in line with recommendations from the Interim National [...]
17 April 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Gambia searches for justice, while Mali struggles with reconciliation
This week, JusticeInfo looked at the first steps being taken by judicial authorities in The Gambia to deal with the innumerable crimes committed under the long rule of Yahya Jammeh, who is now in exile. Meanwhile, people in Mali [...]
14 April 2017
by JusticeInfo's Ephrem Rugiririza with Studio Tamani in Bamako
Mali’s opposition regrets armed groups not in new government
On April 11, less than a week after his appointment by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Mali’s new Prime Minister Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga published the names of his government team. The opposition had hoped after the recent Confe [...]
13 April 2017
by JusticeInfo.Net
Freedom of opinion and expression under threat in Tanzania
Is Tanzania still the “peaceful and stable country” that its residents and visitors say it is? Since the start of this year, more and more people, including from within the ranks of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Rev [...]
13 April 2017
by Marija Ristic
War Justice Strategy for Kosovo Undermined by Divisions
A Kosovo government-backed working group set up to draft a national strategy for dealing with the wartime past has been troubled by divisions, disputes and failures to deliver, a new report says. Kosovo’s Inter-Ministerial Working [...]
12 April 2017
by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Judging crimes of the Jammeh era poses challenge in Gambia
Gambia is awaiting the creation of a transitional justice mechanism promised by the new government to help heal wounds after 22 years of dictatorial rule under former president Yahya Jammeh. In the meantime, police and judiciary h [...]
9 April 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: US strikes in Syria, while Rwanda remembers the genocide
International justice saw a new failure this week on Syria. The UN Security Council was unable to agree a Resolution after the “chemical weapons” massacre at Khan Cheikhoun which left dozens dead and injured, including children. U [...]
7 April 2017
by Pierre Hazan
Syrian war crime brings illegal but perhaps legitimate US strikes
Syrian air force use of chemical weapons against civilians is a war crime, or even a crime against humanity. The retaliatory US missile strikes are perhaps legitimate, but certainly illegal under international law. On Friday Aug [...]
6 April 2017
by AFP
US warns of 'own action' after Syria chemical massacre
The United States and Russia were on a collision course over Syria on Wednesday after a horrific chemical attack so shocked President Donald Trump that Washington threatened unilateral US action. At least 86 people were killed ear [...]
5 April 2017
by Sara Perria, IRIN
UN convenes Rohingya abuse investigation, but Myanmar says it won’t cooperate
YANGON, 4 April 2017 - The UN’s main human rights body is assembling a team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya, even as the government appears set to deny investigators access to areas where crimes against huma [...]
3 April 2017
by François Sergent (JusticeInfo.net)
Week in Review: Simone Gbagbo, Myanmar, universal jurisdiction and satellites
An Abidjan court’s March 28 acquittal of former Ivorian First Lady Simone Gbagbo, charged with “crimes against humanity”, was the big surprise of this week in transitional justice. Was it a judicial or a political decision? Human [...]