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A UN Judge convicted for slavery: power, politics and privilege
13 May 2025 by Lucy Gaynor
That the feeling of power and impunity leads to abuse is a recognised dynamic. It can also affect the staff of judicial institutions responsible for judging the worst crimes, as shown by the case of Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, who has just been convicted of slavery.
Persecution of LGBTQ people: a crime against humanity? Photo: in Uganda, a gay activist wears a mask on which he has stuck a rainbow flag. Persecution of LGBTQ, a crime against humanity?
17 September 2024 by Julia Crawford
More than 60 countries, notably in Africa and the Middle East, criminalize LGBT people. These laws are used to harass, arrest, imprison and attack people. Some countries have de-penalized in recent times, but some have seen a back [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo finally convicted after 15 years in prison. The Judgment was pronounced on August 13, 2024 in Uganda. Kwoyelo’s conviction, at long last
27 August 2024 by Grace Matsiko
More than 15 years after his arrest, Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army former rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty by a Ugandan court of 44 counts of atrocity crimes on August 13. More time is required for his sentencing.
Julia Sebutinde, from Uganda, is a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: official portrait of Sebutinde at the ICJ. Who is Julia Sebutinde, the ICJ judge who says “no”?
23 July 2024 by Grace Matsiko
In 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has taken three landmark decisions to protect the Palestinian population, including warning Israel against the risk of being accused of genocide. In each of these decisions, alone [...]
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Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one” Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
Residents of an Ugandan village listen to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) sentence of Dominic Ongwen, on the radio.
29 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Reparations: can the ICC's millions benefit victims in Uganda? On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander. A total of more than 52 million euros, [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered €52 million in reparations for the victims of Dominic Ongwen in Uganda. Photo: Judge Bertram Schmitt.
29 February 2024 by Lucy Gaynor
The wild reparations order of the ICC On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander convicted three years ago. They came up with a mom [...]
Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child.
6 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko
“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here” “I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo's trial in Uganda - He appears on video on television during a hearing he is unable to attend.
5 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo Sitting some 300 km away in a high security prison in Kampala, former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel Thomas Kwoyelo appeared via video link on January 19 before Uganda’s International Crimes Division. It had organized anothe [...]
Total Energies oil project in Uganda - Environmental activists demonstrate in Kampala against EACOP.
15 December 2023 by Grace Matsiko
Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial While the Cop28 negotiations were taking place in the sumptuous halls of Dubai, no less than 42 families from Uganda's oil-rich regions were expropriated from their homes on a Friday afternoon, in an expeditious court hearing. To [...]
A Ugandan soldier patrols the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo after a massacre that killed more than 900 people.
18 October 2022 by Caleb Kazadi and Grace Matsiko
What will Congo do with the millions paid by Uganda in reparation? In September, Uganda paid 65 million dollars to the Democratic Republic of Congo as the first tranche of reparations for its aggression during the 1998-2003 war, pursuant to a ruling by the International Court of Justice. This is [...]
In the foreground, a boat and inhabitants. In the background, a shovel.
26 August 2022 by Robert Odongo
Uganda: Meeting farmers fighting for justice against Total In the western part of Uganda, about 100,000 people are displaced by a huge oil project mainly run by the French giant Total Energies. The area has been placed under a blanket lockdown by the government. And Total is now subject t [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo in Ouganda
4 April 2022 by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: Kwoyelo, 13 years in custody without trial  Uganda holds the lamentable world record for the longest pre-trial detention in an international crimes trial. Thomas Kwoyelo, a former colonel in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, has been in jail for thirteen years. His trial fo [...]
International Court of Justice
14 February 2022 by Janet H Anderson
The ups and downs of a historic ruling on reparations Last week the International Court of Justice ruled that Uganda should pay 325 million dollars to the Democratic Republic of Congo for the occupation and plundering of its Eastern province more than 20 years ago. How meaningful the [...]
Ugandan soldiers in military transport trucks, waving fists and weapons
10 February 2022 by Claude Sengenya
Ugandan reparations: $325 million that baffle the Congolese On February 9, the International Court of Justice set the final amount that Uganda should pay the Democratic Republic of Congo for the damage caused by its military intervention in 1998-2003. But in Butembo, in North Kivu where so [...]
Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
6 May 2021 by AFP
ICC's second highest sentence given to Dominic Ongwen The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years' jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity. While a [...]
Dominic Ongwen at the ICC
5 February 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICC: How to interpret Ongwen's conviction? Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict, former Lord's Resistance Army commander D [...]
A former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda
4 February 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC trial of Dominic Ongwen: Are the spirits there? The International Criminal Court is to hand down its judgment today February 4 in the case of Ugandan rebel Dominic Ongwen, a former member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Belief in spirits has been central to the arguments o [...]
Dominic Ongwen - ICC judgment
4 February 2021 by AFP
ICC finds Ongwen fully responsible of his crimes as a LRA commander The Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander is fully responsible. “The chamber did not find evidence for the claim by the defence that he suffered from any mental disease or that he committed the crimes under [...]
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