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.
Searching for the path of reconciliation, Central African Republic looks to Rwanda
29 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Two years ago, in the aftermath of the violence by the Seleka militia against Christians, anti-Muslim pogroms in Central Africa Republic (CAR) threatened to escalate into genocide. Today, the country is trying to find a way out of [...]
28 January 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
The International Criminal Court (ICC), which has been working for over a decade, was hailed on its creation as having innovative provisions for victims. Its Statutes provide for victim participation and representation in trials, [...]
27 January 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
The trial of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo set to start on January 28 will be the first time the International Criminal Court (ICC) has tried a former head of State. Gbagbo will be tried jointly with Charles Blé Goudé, f [...]
ICC prosecutor to probe 2008 alleged war crimes in Georgia
27 January 2016
by AFP
Judges at the International Criminal Court Wednesday gave its prosecutor a green light to launch a new inquiry into allegations of war crimes during a brief but bloody 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. It will be the first prob [...]
26 January 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
UN Must Take Action on South Sudan, Say NGOs
A confidential UN experts’ report leaked to the press on Tuesday calls for an arms embargo on South Sudan. It also says President Salva Kiir and a rebel leader should be sanctioned over atrocities in a two-year civil war. The repo [...]
25 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Only “Short-Term Policies to Contain Anger” in Protesting Tunisian Region
Olfa Lamloum is a political scientist and director of the International Alert office in Tunisia. She seeks in her research and that of her team the voice of the marginalized. In April 2015, Alert International published a qualitat [...]
25 January 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
The Week in Review: Protests in Tunisia, UN in Burundi
Tunisia has innovated in the field of transitional justice. A request submitted to the country’s Truth and Dignity Commission seeks to have the region of Kasserine recognized as a “victimized region”. JusticeInfo correspondent Olf [...]
22 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan, Justiceinfo.net editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
International Criminal Justice, A Help or Hindrance to Peace?
For the last twenty years, the question of how to combine peace and justice has been a recurring issue in international relations. From Syria to Colombia, from former Yugoslavia to the Central African Republic, controversies aroun [...]
20 January 2016
by Jocelyn Kelly and Pauline Zerla
Communities Show Resilience but LRA Leaves Lasting Trauma, says HHI Report
In the fall of 2015, three young men escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army, a brutal rebel group that is known for the abduction and conscription of children. The three youth hiked through vast tracts of forest and remote land to the [...]
20 January 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
LRA Rebel Commander and Ex-Child Soldier Faces the ICC
On Thursday, Dominic Ongwen, one of the most notorious leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, will again face judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in hearings set to last until January 27. This follows his [...]
20 January 2016
by Habibou Bangré, Correspondent in Kinshasa
DR Congo Wants to Try Returned ICC Convict Again
Germain Katanga wanted to go back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to rejoin the army or become a farmer, but the judicial authorities have not finished with him. “He will be tried for acts other than those dealt with by the IC [...]
19 January 2016
by AFP
'Staggering' death toll for Iraqi civilians since 2014: UN
The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq over the past two years is "staggering", the United Nations said Tuesday, with at least 18,802 people killed and another 36,245 injured.The figures count only documented casualtie [...]
18 January 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
What Hope for Burundi After All the Failed Initiatives?
“I believe that Member States, and this Council, can intervene effectively to prevent the repetition of past horrors,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told the UN Security Council in Novembe [...]
18 January 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: The Wheels of Transitional Justice Grind Slowly
This has been an eventful week showing the important role transitional justice can play in places like Cambodia, Kosovo, Kenya and Burundi, but that a hesitant international community often sets it in motion late. On Friday, the [...]
16 January 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Kenyan Deputy President Fights to Get Free of the ICC
For four days of hearings this week in the trial of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang, the new buildings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have been the scene of the same ballet. A few minutes [...]
15 January 2016
by AFP
New court to open in The Hague to try Kosovo war crimes
A new EU-backed court to try war crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas during the Kosovo war will open this year in The Hague, the Dutch government said Friday."The court will try serious crimes allegedly commit [...]
14 January 2016
by IRIN
How a city in Tanzania holds the key to peace in Burundi
At some stage, both sides in Burundi’s increasingly bloody political crisis are likely to be sitting across the table from one another in Arusha, Tanzania, looking to agree a political settlement. Arusha, a laidback cosmopolitan c [...]
13 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, correspondent in Tunis
Remembering January 2011 with Light on Tunisia Army Abuses
Five years after January 14, 2011, many questions on what happened after the bloody nights of January 15, 16 and 17 have not been completely answered. Ben Ali, the fallen dictator, had nevertheless already left for Saudi Arabia. H [...]