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.
Bosco Ntaganda at the ICC, "I am a soldier, not a criminal'
3 September 2015
by AFP
Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda told his war crimes trial Thursday he was 'a soldier, not a criminal', breaking his silence for the first time since surrendering to the International Criminal Court."I have been described as [...]
3 September 2015
by AFP
The Senegalese court trying ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for atrocities has received a complaint of rights abuses against his successor, it said on Thursday.Idriss Deby, who overthrew Habre in 1990, has been accused of "genoc [...]
Opinion : Tunisia's "Reconciliation Bill" Threatens Gains of the Revolution
3 September 2015
by David Tolbert, ICTJ's President
Tunisia has until now inspired the region and the rest of the world by taking the democratic path after its 2011 revolution. But the current dysfunction of the political system, the deep poverty in the country's marginalized rura [...]
2 September 2015
by Katell ABIVEN
Guatemala's Congress voted Tuesday to strip embattled President Otto Perez of his immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted for allegedly masterminding a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme. Hours after the resolution [...]
2 September 2015
by Cristíán Correa
Inter-American Court’s Dangerous Precedent in Limiting Insurgents’ Right to Reparations
In an important recent decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) affirmed that the extrajudicial execution of a member of a subversive group is a violation of the right to life and a state’s obligations under inte [...]
31 August 2015
by Dr. Kora Andrieu, Human Rights Officer, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Mali
Confronting the dictatorial past in Tunisia: The politicization of transitional justice
In Tunisia, soon after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in January 2011, the toolkit of transitional justice was almost immediately put in place. Countless conferences, workshops and seminars were organized by the international com [...]
28 August 2015
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal: Looking for my disappeared father
Every August 30th since the signing of the comprehensive peace accord (CPA) in 2006, families have marked the International Day of the Disappeared to commemorate more than 1,400 disappeared relatives and light a ray of hope for ju [...]
27 August 2015
by Stephen Graham
Is South Sudan’s latest peace accord the real deal?
NAIROBI, 26 August 2015 (IRIN) - After months of foot-dragging and under the threat of United Nations sanctions, South Sudan President Salva Kiir today finally signed a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending the country’s civil w [...]
26 August 2015
by AFP
South Sudan peace deal: key points to end war
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is expected to sign a peace deal Wednesday, aimed at ending 20 months of civil war. At least seven ceasefire deals have been agreed and then shattered within days -- if not hours -- in the world [...]
25 August 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Mali Peace Accord Under Pressure
Two months after a peace accord for northern Mali was signed amid fanfare, the deal is looking extremely fragile. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of Touareg and Arab rebels which is a key player, has just p [...]
24 August 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunisia correspondent
Presidential Threat to Tunisia’s Transitional Justice
In autumn 2014, campaigning was in full swing in Tunisia for legislative and presidential elections. Two political parties were running neck and neck at the top of the opinion polls, the moderate Islamist Ennahdha and Nidaa Tounès [...]
22 August 2015
by Katarina Höije IRIN
What peace deal in Mali ?
BAMAKO, 19 August 2015 (IRIN) - More than eight weeks after a landmark peace accord between Mali’s Bamako government and a Tuareg-led rebel coalition brought hope of an end to years of unrest, little has been done to end the fight [...]
22 August 2015
by Moussa Bienvenu Haba
Opinion : Dadis Camara, Guinea and the ICC
On September 28, 2009 in the Guinean capital Conakry, a peaceful demonstration by thousands of people opposing the presidential candidacy of Dadis Camara, then head of the military junta ruling the country, was violently repressed [...]
20 August 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza,JusticeInfo.Net
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES VOW TO “SAVE” CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
The Central African Republic (CAR) is gripped by electoral fever in the run up to presidential polls scheduled for October 18. The candidates are numerous, even if some people are calling for a postponement so the elections can be [...]
20 August 2015
by AFP
FRENCH PROSECUTORS WANT TO DROP CASE TRANSFERRED BY ICTR
After 20 years of investigations, Paris prosecutors said Wednesday they had asked for the case against a Rwandan Catholic priest accused of genocide to be thrown out. The case of Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka was transferred to Fr [...]
19 August 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
KENYA “NON-COOPERATION” BACK ON ICC AGENDA
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday ordered a re-examination of allegations that Kenya failed to cooperate with the Court in the case against its President Uhuru Kenyatta. If so, it said judges sho [...]
19 August 2015
by Ram Bhandari
Nepal: the role of Transitional Justice Commissions from a victim perspective
The recently established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) have limited their activities to government territories, meeting with line ministries and [...]