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In Switzerland, crimes committed against nomadic peoples (Yenish, Sinti and Manouche) have been recognised by the government as ‘crimes against humanity’. Photo: Yenish children play the schwyzerörgeli, a small accordion, in front of a vehicle parked in an encampment.

This was a “dark chapter in Swiss history”

On February 19, Switzerland admitted it committed a “crime against humanity” in removing thousands of Traveller children from their families over a period of 50 years. Adult Yenish and Sinti…
By Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
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Parents and peers of killed or missing students during a press conference on October 6, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Authorities discovered over the weekend six adjoining pits containing 28 bodies, some badly burned and in pieces, on a hill outside the Guerrero state city of Iguala, where the students were last seen.

Enforced disappearances in Mexico

The deposed former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh found refuge in Equatorial Guinea in 2017. Could he return to Gambia to face trial? Photo: Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial Guinea and Jammeh’s equation

Justice in Syria. Portrait (drawing) of Nadim Houry, international lawyer.

Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract”

International law as seen from Israel. Photo: Members of the family of Naor Hassisim (murdered by Hamas on 7 October 2023) at his funeral in Israel.

“A just war does not justify all means”

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80 years on, remembrance starts for France’s “Nomads”

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Antoine Garapon, French magistrate and head of the Commission for Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in the Church, advocates restorative justice. illustration: portrait of Garapon.

“Restorative justice is the very soul of justice”

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Fighting gender-based crimes - Illustration: a crime scene (police banner and numbered exhibits) where the silhouette of a character marked on the ground is filled in with the colors of the LGBTQ+ community's rainbow flag.

The Fight Against Gender Crimes

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Raji Sourani, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, talks to Justice Info about the situation in the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and international law, following Donald Trump's statements. Photo: Sourani looks out of his office window.

“I hope Gaza won’t be the graveyard of international law”

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Trial of Russian soldier Voislav Torden in Finland for possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. Torden sits on a television screen during his trial, surrounded by his lawyers.

Finland on the frontline for trying Russians for war crimes

Colombia
Drawings of Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero, two Colombian writers.

Writing about crimes you can’t forget

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In Syria, after the fall of Assad, the search for the disappeared often begins in mass graves. Photo: People digging at the bottom of a deep mass grave while children watch from above.

Syria: getting it right in the search for the disappeared

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Central African Republic - Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Rhombot Yekatom before the International Criminal Court (ICC): what sentences could they face?

Last words in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona trial

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a hub for the mineral trade, is a magnet for neighbouring Rwanda, as it is for other countries further afield, in the European Union and elsewhere. Photo: Members of the M23 armed group, supported by Rwanda, patrol in Goma, North Kivu.

Modern-day gold rush in North Kivu: what the law can do

Iraq
In Iraq, a Unitad team is carrying out exhumations at the site of a mass grave. Several people, some in white lab coats, are working around a hole dug in the ground in a desert area.

Navigating the accountability maze in post-UNITAD Iraq

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In Liberia, a statue of Prince Y. Johnson has been erected in front of apartment blocks. A group of young people surround it, some sitting on the pedestal.

Prince Y. Johnson: The Great Escape 

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Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice. Illustration: 3 men in hooded sweatshirts are dressed like gang members. In the background, a map of the world.

Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice

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Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda - A man is judged in the midst of the population in a

Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: causes, what happened, and justice

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In Camera episode 4 - Can the Church repair its crimes?

Can the French Church "repair" its crimes?

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Photo montage from the slideshow illustrating our first Justice Info Correspondents' Meeting in Geneva (November 2023).

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