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Environmental justice in Colombia - High mountain páramo ecosystems under threat (Cumbal, Nariño).

Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes

In its latest indictment, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) insisted that "transitional justice is also environmental justice” and deemed ecosystem damage as a war crime. Three magistrates wrote partial dissenting opinions disputing that conclusion, while two others supported it. What does their legal debate reveal about making justice in the world's second most biodiverse […]

By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Impunity in Guatemala - Virginia Laparra, an anti-corruption prosecutor is facing justice

Guatemalan judges and prosecutors under fire

Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia

Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims

Justice in Amazonia - Indigenous inhabitant of the Amazonian forest, in Brazil, in traditional dress

Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon?

Beth van Schaack (United States - US)

The U.S. new priorities in international justice

A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.

How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims

An installation in memory of the victims of the La Gabarra massacre in Colombia: a colorful spiral made of candles, flowers and sheets of paper on which the names of the victims have been written.

Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to

The new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, delivers a speech on a podium. In the background: the Colombian flag.

The Colombian president Gustavo Petro opens door to a new transitional justice system

Viktor Bout, a famous Russian arms dealer (who operated in Liberia), is seen in this photo behind bars (in 2010), imprisoned in Thailand. He may soon be released, exchanged for other prisoners.

Viktor Bout for Brittney Grinner: a prisoner exchange that forgets Liberia

President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.

Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes

In a street in Chile, a poster stuck on a wall forms this sentence:

Is a virtuous model of reparation emerging in Chile?

Father Francisco de Roux reads the report in Bogota.

The Truth Commission’s message to Colombia

Black and white photo of a hospital bed (operating table type) in the 60-70s.

Denmark and Greenland confront a traumatic birth control campaign

In Argentina, a man is dragged on the ground by the military

Argentina’s Ultimate Rendez-Vous with Justice

A priest and musicians celebrate a mass in memory of 3 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala in the 1980s.

Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims?

Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings

Grave of a missing and unidentified person in Colombia (inscription:

In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter

Alejandro Valencia and Carlos Ospina speak about the truth in Colombia

Colombia: Tensions rise ahead of the Truth Commission’s report

During an event of the Truth Commission of Colombia, three ex-Colombian officers, standing on a platform, meet a woman (she is shaking hands with one of them). In the background, a large screen shows the words

Truth in Colombia: “Your sons were innocent people we murdered”