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16 June 2018 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Pay more attention to witness protection and reparations, says sexual violence expert Sexual violence in conflict is one of the most important but also hardest crimes to prosecute. Swiss NGO TRIAL International, a partner of JusticeInfo and Fondation Hirondelle that supports victims of international crimes, is putt [...]
7 May 2018 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Sperisen verdict “gives hope to Guatemalan victims” A 15-year prison sentence handed down by a Geneva court on former Guatemalan police chief Erwin Sperisen for complicity in the 2006 murder of seven prison inmates is an “important step in the fight against impunity for State crime [...]
5 April 2018 by Julia Crawford, swissinfo.ch
As first group of Libya refugees arrives in Switzerland, who is a refugee and who a migrant? As Switzerland receives a first group of vulnerable refugees from Libyan detention centres, we take a look at the international response to Libya's migrant crisis. At the end of last year, CNN reports of detained Africans being so [...]
14 March 2018 by Julia Crawford
NGOs on the frontline of South Sudan’s forgotten war As the United Nations Human Rights Council this week heard a new report on abuses in South Sudan, we look at how two Swiss non-governmental groups are working against the odds to help alleviate the suffering of the population. On [...]
8 March 2018 by Julia Crawford
Switzerland : Is the Abacha accord a model for returning ‘dictator funds’? A recent Swiss agreement with Nigeria and the World Bank to return hundreds of millions in so-called “Abacha funds” is being hailed as a model for how other countries deal with dictators’ assets. But civil society organisations in [...]
16 December 2017 by François Sergent and Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: DRC, Ethiopia and crime of aggression, In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military court sitting in the little town of Kavumu struck a historic blow for transitional justice in a place where sexual violence and powerful people generally go unpunished. The week also [...]
15 November 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
UN countries must press Sri Lanka on justice, say NGOs International jurists of the Sri Lanka Monitoring and Accountability Panel (MAP)  say Sri Lanka’s government has made no credible progress on its transitional justice commitments, and are urging the international community to get [...]
21 October 2017 by François Sergent and Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: “Historic” judgment for Liberia and the ICC under more fire This week saw transitional justice faced once again with classic tensions between law and politics, justice and peace. As the ICC, supposed to be the “police force” of international justice, came under more fire, a US court delive [...]
19 October 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Liberian found guilty of war crimes-linked charges in “historic” US case A court in Philadelphia on Wednesday found Mohammed Jabbateh (“Jungle Jabbah”) guilty of charges related to atrocities committed during the first Liberian civil war (1989-96). His two-week trial was the first time that Liberian wa [...]
3 October 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Liberian war victims to testify in US “Jungle Jabbah” case The trial has begun in the United States of Liberian national Mohammed Jabbateh (“Jungle Jabbah”), a Pennsylvania resident suspected of war crimes. The former ULIMO rebel commander is charged with two counts of fraud in immigratio [...]
29 March 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Myanmar lacks discussion on post-conflict justice, says expert In Myanmar, the start of a democratic transition in 2010 and the arrival in power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in early 2016 raised much hope. But the military still holds considerable power. Conflicts [...]
3 March 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Sri Lanka’s victims demand justice, while government plays for time Sri Lanka’s government this week asked the UN Human Rights Council for more time to fulfil its promises under a 2015 Resolution on justice for civil war victims. The international community welcomed the surprise election of Presid [...]
24 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Court ruling against ICC withdrawal an “embarrassment” for South Africa This week, the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, ruled that the government’s notification to the UN last October of its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was unconstitutional. South Africa’s announcement o [...]
10 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Can the African Union save South Sudan? Two years after independence in 2011, South Sudan descended into a war which continues to rage, with analysts fearing a possible genocide. In January alone, more than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda as continued fighting risk [...]
26 January 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Arrest of Gambian ex-minister in Switzerland an “important sign” for torture victims Just days after long-time Gambian President Yahya Jammeh went into exile following electoral defeat and the threat of regional military intervention, his former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has been arrested in Switzerland. This [...]
1 November 2016 by Julia Crawford, Justice Info
What prospects for peace in Colombia after the referendum? The world was expecting an end to half a century of conflict in Colombia, but on October 2 the Colombian people voted “no” to a peace accord signed on September 26 by President Juan Manual Santos and the leader of the Marxist Arme [...]
4 October 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Could Cambodia be test for new ICC move on land grabs? On September 15, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a policy document on case selection which included for the first time a focus on land-grabbing and environmental crimes in "peace" time. This comes a [...]
9 August 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
World must help save South Sudan, says expert In South Sudan, a fragile peace deal signed in August 2015 looks in doubt as fighting again erupted in Juba this July and Vice-President Riek Machar fled the capital. Many civilians have not only died but also been the target of s [...]
8 August 2016 by François Sergent and Julia Crawford
Week in Review: South Sudan, Central African Republic and “Victimized Perpetrators” This week provided some notable developments in transitional justice, despite judicial and other  vacations.   Allegations of widespread human rights abuses in South Sudan are not new, and the presence of a 12,000-strong UN missio [...]