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Russian soldiers (including a sniper) in Georgia. A Russian flag flutters in the wind.
31 March 2022 by Franck Petit
Georgia, the ICC's testing ground for Ukraine For the Kremlin, Georgia was a testing ground for what is being played out today in Ukraine on a larger scale, and for the International Criminal Court (ICC) too. In Ukraine, the war started in 2014 triggered an ICC investigation [...]
Drawing of Massamba Gueye
7 March 2022 by Franck Petit
Massamba Gueye: “We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on restitutions between Africa and Europe” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Massamba Gueye Director of the Kër Leyti House of Orality and Heritage "I have no master," claims storyteller and teacher Massamba Gueye. He is proud to be part of a generation that went to univers [...]
Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech in Ukraine
1 March 2022 by Franck Petit
What justice options for Ukraine faced with Russia’s invasion? Two days after the outbreak of the Russian attack, Ukraine has seized the International Court of Justice. But what can international law do to sanction the aggression of one state against another in the 21st century? Interview wit [...]
Harouna Daouda Dia is interviewed at his home by 2 people
17 February 2022 by Franck Petit
Restitutions to Senegal: "We must consult the people" In Senegal, a Fulani violinist is restoring the identity to an instrument collected 175 years ago by abolitionist Victor Schœlcher. The instrument is part of the Cité de la Musique collections in Paris, but this violinist reveals [...]
laboratoire deberlinisation
15 February 2022 by Franck Petit
Restitutions: Senegal takes the African Union ‘lead’ "The restitution of our stolen heritage will remain at the heart of our agenda," said Senegal's president on Saturday, February 5, as he took the helm of the African Union. Senegal, along with others such as Algeria and Egypt, is [...]
War decay in Tskhinvali (South Ossetia / Georgia)
26 February 2021 by Franck Petit
Georgia: Focus on Bensouda’s flagship probe five years on (2/2) Five years ago, the International Criminal Court opened its first investigation outside the African continent, in Georgia. This is a highly symbolic investigation for Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. She may announce the findings before [...]
War in South Ossetia (Georgia)
25 February 2021 by Franck Petit
Georgia: Focus on Bensouda’s flagship probe five years on (1/2) Five years ago, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first investigation outside the African continent, in Georgia. This investigation is eminently symbolic for Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who initiated and led it. She [...]
Tina
28 January 2021 by Franck Petit
ICC Victims Fund: Waiting for Godot in Georgia ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 6 Georgia was the first place outside the African continent selected by the International Criminal Court for investigation. Twelve years after the 2008 war, the small Caucasian country is still wait [...]
17 November 2020 by Franck Petit
ICC Prosecutor’s election: in December, “potentially no candidate will be nominated” Four weeks ahead of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court, no agreement has been reached on a candidate to succeed Fatou Bensouda as Prosecutor. Yesterday 15 November, the ASP Secretariat announc [...]
20 October 2020 by Franck Petit
Eric Emeraux: "Terrorism and hate crimes have made international crimes part of our daily lives" JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Éric Émeraux Former head of the French Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity For three years, Colonel Eric Emeraux headed France’s Office to Fight Crimes against Humanity, [...]
13 February 2020 by Franck Petit
Sudan: If Al-Bashir can’t go to the ICC, will the ICC go to Al-Bashir? 48 hours after the stunning news that Sudan’s ex-president Omar Al-Bashir would be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has been trying to arrest him for 11 years, the situation is not so straightforward. I [...]
28 January 2020 by Franck Petit
Indigenous Peoples: The Norwegian Truth Commission's timid first steps Truth commissions for indigenous peoples are growing, not copying but inspired by each other. After Canada and Greenland, and as Finland decides to do the same, Norway is dealing with its heavy past and trying to reconcile with it [...]
5 November 2019 by Franck Petit
Françoise Mathe: The traps of universal jurisdiction JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Françoise Mathe Criminal lawyer at the Toulouse Bar and co-founder of Lawyers without Borders (ASF) France This Thursday, November 7, a new universal jurisdiction trial opens in Brussels against [...]
6 September 2019 by Franck Petit
Finland to set up Truth Commission for the Sami people The Sami people have lived since early times in the vast northern territories of  Scandinavia, where some still make a living from herding reindeer and from fishing. Like the indigenous people of Canada and other big democracies, [...]
23 July 2019 by Franck Petit
Jean-Pierre Massias: “The Canadian commission is a new model for transitional justice” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Jean-Pierre Massias Professor of public law at the University of Pau and president of the Institut francophone pour la justice et la démocratie Indigenous peoples' access to transitional justice [...]
7 May 2019 by Franck Petit
Al-Bashir: Jordan should have arrested him, the ICC says again Appeals judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed unsurprisingly, on Monday, May 6, that Jordan – a member of the Court – should have arrested Omar Al-Bashir when he came to an Arab League summit in March 2017. Th [...]
16 April 2019 by Franck Petit
Reality check for the ICC in Afghanistan An exclusive interview with Julian Elderfield, who worked in the prosecution division of the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2012 to February 2019. The prosecutor’s request to open an invest [...]
11 February 2019 by Franck Petit
CAR: "A peace for the benefit of the government, not for the sake of justice" 40264_RCA_Accord-de-paix_Khartoum-fev-2019Télécharger The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) released on 8 February the peace agreement concluded the previous week in Khartoum with fourteen armed groups. This agreeme [...]
17 December 2018 by Franck Petit
International crimes: spotlight on France’s war crimes unit Universal jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute any person for serious crimes committed anywhere in the world, is in the frontline of some prosecution strategies, notably with regard to crimes committed in Syria. In Pa [...]