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Justice Info is more than just an information site on international justice; it is also a forum for debate, in a variety of forms. Interviews, opinion articles, podcasts... Experts give us their analyses, comments and perspectives.

Beth van Schaack (United States - US)

The U.S. new priorities in international justice

Beth van Schaack is the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and she is the guest of Asymmetrical Haircuts, our podcast partner. She describes the US new commitment towards the International Criminal Court, including through diplomatic support, information sharing, and donations to the trust fund for victims. Even though the red lines on Palestine […]

By Asymmetrical Haircuts

Demonstration of Palestinian children holding up signs that read

The occupation of Palestine back before the ICJ, why?

A man walks in front of works of art exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Colonial racism catches up with Amsterdam Rijksmuseum

Drawing of David Van Reybrouck

David Van Reybrouck: "The fight for decolonization can’t be detached from the fight against global warming"

Reed Brody (human rights lawyer) sits among a group of women in Chad, victims of Hissène Habré's dictatorship.

When victims became heroes

Voting session in the Sami Parliament of Finland

In Finland, Sámi rights take central stage in national politics

2 elderly people demonstrate (holding up pictures of Franco's victims), in the streets of Madrid (Spain)

Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory

Portrait (drawing) of Philip Grant, director of the NGO Trial International, specializing in international justice, especially on

Philip Grant: “Ukraine is accelerating a revival of universal jurisdiction”

Climate change - Thick black smoke billows from an oil refinery. A plane flies in the sky.

Climate justice: Pressure is mounting on fossil fuel producers

Colonel aviator Peter Tankink and Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld hold a press conference in The Hague on November 2019, about the deadly attack by a Dutch F-16 on Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.

Hawija: from remote warfare to distant justice

Crimes agains humanity in Kenya - Police violence during a protest in Kisumu (Kenya). Military policeman seems to shoot in front of him.

What can Kenya's first case for crimes against humanity achieve?

Global warming - Fire in a coniferous forest in Siberia (Russia)

COP 27: When Russian activists dare to take the Kremlin to court

Climate justice - A camel in a desert in Saudi Arabia. In the background, an oil facility of the oil giant Saudi Aramco.

Redefining climate justice

Ruined buildings in Mariupol (Ukraine)

Ukraine: why states are storming the ICJ

Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?

Armenia/Azerbaijan: What alternative to the law of the strongest?

The Skin of a Sumatran tiger is seen in a plastic bag after the arrest of a trafficker in Bandah Aceh. Where wildlife crime is particularly common.

Let’s look at wildlife crimes

Philippe Sands (international law expert)

Philippe Sands: “There is an issue of identity and race” in international justice

Drawing illustrating Arthur Denouveaux testifying on the stand during the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris. In the background, the Bataclan concert is projected on a wall above the judges and the audience. Salah Abdeslam (the main defendant) also appears in the image.

France: Terrorist attacks trial proves an unforeseen experience of restorative justice