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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.

"MAKE WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE TALKS COMPULSORY," SAYS CONGOLESE ACTIVIST
26 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
October 31 marks exactly 15 years since the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, which calls for the participation of women at all stages of peace processes. Fifteen years on, results on the ground seem meagre. In the Democrati [...]
Tunisian Victims Want More Say in Transitional Justice
26 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Victims of the Tunisian dictatorship say the country’s ongoing transitional justice process is politicized and too bureaucratic. Some want to have a more direct voice in it. These are some of the findings of a report by the resear [...]
Habré trial continues in Dakar, Germany stresses Holocaust responsibility
25 October 2015 by JusticeInfo.Net
War crimes and crimes against humanity were much at issue this week in courtrooms and elsewhere. Firstly in the historic trial of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, which has been taking place before a special court in Dakar s [...]
SHADOW OF GBAGBO OVER CÔTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS
23 October 2015 by Tristan Miquel Fondation Hirondelle and Sophie Rosenberg Cambridge University
“Laurent Gbagbo and the political prisoners will be freed.” So goes the promise of opposition candidates in this Sunday’s presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire. They have been repeating this on a daily basis since the official c [...]
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21 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
STOPPING TORTURE IN TUNISIA Kaies Berrehouma died on October 5. Wanted by the police, he was caught by the anti-drug squad near his home in the Tunis suburb of Ouardia and beaten to death in the middle of the street, according to several witnesses. Sofiene D [...]
21 October 2015 by JusticeInfo.Net
RWANDA EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL STOPS JUSTICE FOR CRIMES IN CONGO, SAYS LAWYER In October 2010, the United Nations published its “mapping” report on crimes committed in the former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This dense and detailed report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights looks [...]
19 October 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
BURUNDI GOVERNMENT WANTS ONE-WAY DIALOGUE “It’s not unusual to find dead bodies in Bujumbura these days. We discover them on the streets, in drainage channels, bushes and rivers,” wrote a Burundian journalist working for IRIN on October 5. Nobody has contested this fact, [...]
19 October 2015 by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.Net
SWITZERLAND IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE SPOTLIGHT Spotlight on Switzerland this week in transitional justice. A Swiss court was wrong to convict and fine a Turkish politician for calling the Armenian genocide an “international lie”, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled [...]
15 October 2015 by AFP
Turkish politician had right to deny Armenia genocide: Europe court The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.In a landmark free speech rulin [...]
15 October 2015 by AFP
The armenian genocide Armenia and Turkey are at odds over whether the World War I massacres and deportations of Armenians between 1915 and 1917 by their Ottoman rulers should be described as "genocide".The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg i [...]
14 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
SWISS “MUST TURN WORDS TO ACTION ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMES”, SAYS TRIAL Swiss anti-impunity NGO TRIAL, supported by Amnesty International, has just published a new manual on how Swiss law can be used to prosecute international crimes under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Following changes to [...]
13 October 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project
European Court in View on Kosovo Organ Trafficking War crimes, international organ trafficking, mafia networks and corruption involving top officials of a Balkan State, Kosovo: it sounds like the scenario for a John Le Carré novel. Tragically, though, it seems to be true. Eight ye [...]
13 October 2015 by Jason Patinkin
South Sudan's latest peace deal unravelling NYAL, 9 October 2015 (IRIN) - South Sudan's latest peace deal is unravelling as fighting picks up and a new declaration by President Salva Kiir threatens the most delicately struck parts of the agreement. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, an [...]
12 October 2015 by Laura Payne
Quiet quartet wins Nobel Peace Prize for laying a democratic path despite troubles in Tunisia It is a fitting that in a tumultuous year for global peacemaking, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the little-known Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. Over the past few years, the Quartet has been quietly shepherding in [...]
11 October 2015 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
THIS WEEK: A NOBEL PRIZE… AND ELECTION TROUBLE A Nobel peace prize awarded to the Tunisian Quartet was the good news of the week. The prize, recognizing four civil society organizations (labour union UGTT, the National Order of Lawyers ONA, Tunisian Human Rights League LTDH an [...]
11 October 2015 by Franck Petit, JusticeInfo.Net
OUTCRY AS FRANCE DROPS CASE ON RWANDAN PRIEST ACCUSED OF GENOCIDE A French court has dismissed the case against Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, the first case opened in France on the Rwandan genocide under the principle of universal competence. The announcement on October 2 has caused an outcry. T [...]
10 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR TUNISIAN TRANSITION The news was unexpected. Just the day before, a member of parliament from the majority Nidaa Tounes party had a miraculous escape from assassination in a country where terrorist violence and arrests of Jihadist group members have [...]
9 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AMID TENSION IN GUINEA Guineans are called to the ballot box this Sunday October 11 for only the second “free” presidential elections in the country’s history. Although the campaign had been relatively calm, deadly clashes broke out on Thursday after in [...]
8 October 2015 by Hippolyte Marboua (Bangui) and Ephrem Rugiririza
ELECTORAL CALENDAR UNCERTAIN AS LIFE RETURNS TO BANGUI Normal activities have resumed in Bangui since the beginning of the week, with banks and shops reopening, taxis, minibuses and motorcycle taxis working again. But the Central African Republic capital remains haunted by inter-commu [...]