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.
War Crimes Committed in Northern Mali in 2014 and 2015, says UN
12 January 2016
by Studio Tamani and JusticeInfo.net
Atrocities that may classify as war crimes were committed in northern Mali in May 2014 and May 2015 by armed groups and Malian security forces, according to two UN reports published in December. The armed groups reject these accus [...]
11 January 2016
by François Sergent
In this relatively calm week for transitional justice, the example came from Guatemala. This small Latin American country, which was torn apart by a bloody civil war lasting nearly 40 years (1960-1996) and leaving thousands dead, [...]
7 January 2016
by Habibou Bangré, Kinshasa
The case of former Rwandan mayor and genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa, recently arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is turning into a headache. The UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), whi [...]
7 January 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Sidi Bouzid
Lawyer Khaled Aouinia, big and tall at 45, has the passionate, determined, powerful voice for tough arguments in court. Before the Tunisian revolution he got himself noticed for voluntarily taking up the most “indefensible” causes [...]
5 January 2016
by Emmanuel Sehene, Taba
Slow Reconciliation in ex-Fief of Rwandan Genocide Convict
In the former Rwandan commune of Taba, less than 60 kilometres from Kigali, people still talk of its former mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu, the first person to be tried and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICT [...]
5 January 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net editorial advisor and assistant professor at Neuchâtel University
Turkey, Israel, Russia and the age of “Realjuridik”
In the mid- nineteenth century, German writer and politician Ludwig von Rochau coined the term Realpolitik to describe the clash between the Age of Enlightenment’s aspirations for progress and the power play between the new nation [...]
5 January 2016
by Samuel Okiror
Opinion : What next for the Burundi peace process?
Talks aimed at a settlement to Burundi’s violent political divide are due to start in neighbouring Tanzania on Wednesday, but the government is taking a hard line over what it considers interference in its internal affairs. It ins [...]
5 January 2016
by AFP
Ivory Coast details New Year leniency for 3,100 prisoners
Ivory Coast's justice minister on Monday gave details of President Alassane Ouattara's pledge to show leniency to 3,100 inmates, saying only a small portion of those selected were behind bars for deadly post-election unrest. The [...]
4 January 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : In Nepal, the undue indian influence
India has played a significant and influential role in Nepali politics and society related to all the major events of the post-conflict era. In 2005, after a decade long violent conflict (1996-2006), the seven party alliance (SPA) [...]
3 January 2016
by François Sergeant, JusticeInfo.net
Elections and Genocide Convictions Mark Last Week of 2015
The last transitional justice week of 2015 saw presidential elections in the Central African Republic, marking a new step in the long transition of this country ravaged for nearly three years by inter-communal violence. The intern [...]
29 December 2015
by Emmanuel Sehene, Kigali
Kigali Tones Down Criticism as Rwanda Tribunal Closes
As the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) closes its doors, Kigali’s assessment of its work is less critical than in the past. The virulent tone of the past is sometimes even replaced by praise, although Rwanda [...]
23 December 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project, associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Whatever Happened to "Responsibility to Protect"?
What has become of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) ten years after it was adopted by the international community? Has it helped stop the unleashing of violence in certain African countries? Or should we proclaim it dead afte [...]
23 December 2015
by AFP
Burundi 'brutal killings' included executions: Amnesty
Burundi security forces carried out executions by shooting people in the head after street battles in the capital earlier this month, Amnesty International said Tuesday, warning of a "deepening human rights crisis". Violence on De [...]
22 December 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi regime stance is virtual suicide, says independent press boss
Antoine Kaburahe is director of Iwacu (meaning “at home” in the Burundian language), the last surviving independent media group in Burundi. In early September Willy Nyamitwe, chief communications advisor to President Pierre Nkurun [...]
21 December 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
International Criminal Court Gets a New Home
Six glass towers of different heights, meant to mirror the sand dunes of the North Sea coast, have since December 14 been the new home of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Now that it has taken possession of these purpose-bu [...]
20 December 2015
by AFP
Clinging to power: the African leaders who won't stand down
Even the fate of Blaise Compaore, who was ousted after a bloody uprising in 2014 after 27 years as president of Burkina Faso, has not been enough to deter other African leaders from clinging to power long after their constitutions [...]
19 December 2015
by Samuel Okiror
Opinion : will peace plan help end Burundi violence
KAMPALA, 18 December 2015 (IRIN) - Plans for the African Union to deploy 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi have been broadly welcomed, but will they help end months of deadly political unrest ignited by President [...]
18 December 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Sidi Bouzid
Tunisia Five Years On: The Revolution "stopped In Sidi Bouzid"
They witnessed the spark that ignited the Tunisian revolution. They saw everything, the unfolding of the whole drama that took place on the main street of Sidi Bouzid exactly five years ago. They witnessed the self-immolation of M [...]
18 December 2015
by Carina Tertsakian, Human Rights Watch
Will Rwandans be able to speak their minds in Referendum?
On December 18, Rwandans are being asked to vote on constitutional amendments that would allow President Paul Kagame to run for president again in 2017 – a third term not permitted under the current constitution. The proposed chan [...]