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Justice Info regularly opens its pages to various actors in the field of international justice (researchers, academics, activists, experts of all kinds) to express their unfiltered opinion or to detail an in-depth analysis.

Aerial view of Pul-e Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Challenges of trying a war crimes veteran in The Hague

On Tuesday 22 February, the District Court of The Hague closed its latest universal jurisdiction trial, against an Afghan-Dutch national alleged to have been head of the Pul-e-Charki prison in Kabul in the 1980s. But the trial has been rife with challenges around this war crimes probe.

By Thijs Bouwknegt

Palestinian child standing in front of a gate without walls around it, in the middle of the ruins

Here is a way for international law to better help end conflicts (1/3)

Protester arrested by Scottish police

Scotland: Transitional justice to deal with economic violence

The public could attend some ECCC sessions

And then, finally, a judge wrote the shameful end of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

The commissioners of the Colombian Truth Commission are sworn in by Juan Manuel Santos

Can Colombia be a model for the post truth commission period?

High Military Court of Kinshasa in the Yumbi trial

Transitional Justice in the DRC: How the UN has put it in a drawer

Child's drawing illustrating a group of shipwrecked migrants

Migrants and international justice: why the pressure is mounting

Group of nomadic Sámis

Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom?

Eduardo Ferro

Uruguay: a law to benefit perpetrators of crimes against humanity?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Cadmus Delorme and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stand for a photograph with residential school survivors following a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Cowessess First Nation, Sask, July 6, 2021.

Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada

Women all dressed in black and a child in a refugee camp

How Gender Stereotypes Distort IS Trials in Germany

Sudanese protesters march in Khartoum, waving flags of Sudan

Why Handing Over ICC Suspects Could Help Sudan’s Transition

Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Algiers, surrounded by French and Algerian flags.

France-Algeria: Having the courage to create a Truth and Memory Commission

at his trial in Germany

Why try a 100-year-old Nazi?

Two American soldiers in front of a portrait of George Floyd posted in the street

Why transitional justice in the U.S. must address both domestic and foreign policy

A visitor to the Quai Branly Museum observes 3 statues from the royal treasures of Abomey.

Colonial crimes: Cultural property should be returned unconditionally

Landscape of the region of Deir ez-Zor in Syria

Caught killing on camera in Deir ez-Zor

Juge Miguel Angel Galvez (Guatemala)

Guatemala’s ‘Diario Militar’ case: desperate times call for precautionary measures

Armenian protesters gather in 2018 in Yerevan, Armenia

Now is the time to make transitional justice possible in Armenia