All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
ICC finds Bemba guilty of war crimes in CAR
21 March 2016
by AFP
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba was Monday found guilty of a ruthless campaign of widespread rapes and killings by his private army in the Central African Republic, in a landmark war crimes verdict. It is the fir [...]
21 March 2016
by Nuba Reports
Over seven years ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for al-Bashir’s arrest for his role in the Darfur genocide, accusing him of overseeing murder, extermination, forcible transfer, rape, and torture, as we [...]
21 March 2016
by François Sergent
The Great Lakes region of Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, was at the heart of transitional justice developments this week. On Sunday, genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was tr [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic: Many-faced Serb accused of Bosnian war horrors
Psychiatrist, poet, president, alleged war criminal -- even New Age healer. Radovan Karadzic has certainly had a varied life. And as he prepares to hear his fate in The Hague this week, one thing is clear about the bouffant-haired [...]
21 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic faces day of reckoning at UN war crimes court
Once-feared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will Thursday stand before UN war crimes judges to learn if, 20 years on, they find him guilty of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. The notorious political leader f [...]
20 March 2016
by AFP
Key genocide suspect transferred to Rwanda for prosecution
Top level Rwandan genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was flown from Kinshasa to Kigali on Sunday to face trial three months after his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 53-year old former mayor is to be tried on nine [...]
18 March 2016
by AFP
DR Congo ex-leader faces landmark ICC war crimes verdict
The International Criminal Court on Monday delivers its verdict against former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, blamed for a campaign of rapes and killings by his private army in the Central African Republic. It is the [...]
16 March 2016
by Bruno Djito Segbedji, Bamako correspondent
"Justice Must be for Everyone", Says Mali Truth Commission Vice-President
Jurist Nina Oualet Intallou from Kidal in northern Mali is First Vice-President of the country’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. She is the daughter of a gendarme crushed to death in 1992 by a Malian army tank and bu [...]
16 March 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo
Burundi Truth Commission “a Diversionary Tactic”, say Critics
In Burundi, the mandate and composition of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was already being criticized by the opposition and civil society. The decision to launch the Commission’s work at the beginning of March has [...]
15 March 2016
by AFP
S.Africa's conduct 'disgraceful' in Bashir case, court says
The South African appeal court Tuesday accused the government of "disgraceful conduct" in allowing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to leave the country despite an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bashi [...]
15 March 2016
by Habibou Bangre, correspondent in Kinshasa
“Raping a Woman is Against Humanity,” Says Dr. Mukwege
Doctor Denis Mukwege arrived back in Kinshasa on Sunday for showings and discussions of two films about his work: “Congo, a Doctor to Save Women” by Angèle Diabang of Senegal, and “The Man who Mends Women” by Thierry Michel and Co [...]
14 March 2016
by François Sergent
Week in Review: Women and Transitional Justice Failures
JusticeInfo this week paid tribute to International Women’s Day with two stories reflecting women’s under-representation in transitional processes, a situation that is not only detrimental to women but also to reconciliation “Des [...]
13 March 2016
by AFP
UN war crimes prosecutor eyes end to long Karadzic trial
It may have taken over two decades but as the verdict looms in the trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, his UN prosecutor says it's never too late for justice. More than 20 years after the excruciating 44-month siege of [...]
11 March 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor
Germany and the Nazis: Can Trying a Sick Old Man Still Be A Lesson?
Germany’s judicial authorities intend to pursue Nazi war criminals down to the last one, however old they are. As a 95-year-old former Auschwitz nurse Hubert Zafke was due to go on trial on March 14 (the court in the eastern town [...]
11 March 2016
by Daniel Bekele Human Rights Watch
Rwanda turns the clock back on access to justice
Until this month, Rwanda was one of only eight countries that recognized the right of individuals to file complaints directly with the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. But just before the court was due to hear a complai [...]
11 March 2016
by AFP
UN blasts rape for wages, child killings in South Sudan
South Sudan has encouraged fighters to rape women in place of wages, while children have been burnt alive, the UN said Friday, calling it one of the world's most "horrendous" human rights situations. Grotesque rights violations co [...]
11 March 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisian Women Set their Sights on Parity
On the morning of January 14, 2011, the growing crowd on Avenue Bourguiba in central Tunis was mixed. There were as many women as men demonstrating for dignity, freedom, work, equality, social justice and democracy on that memorab [...]
9 March 2016
by Pierre Hazan
For the Independence of the International Criminal Court
In a recent article, JusticeInfo editorial advisor Pierre Hazan looked at the African assault on the International Criminal Court and what it means for the ICC’s legitimacy. In a response published on this website, Gilad Ben-Nun a [...]