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.
Burundi policy of victim forgiveness amid renewed conflict
10 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan
After the Central African Republic last week, we will now look at Burundi authorities’ approach to forgiveness for mass crimes before the President’s bid for a third term unleashed the latest outbreak of violence. In Burundi, prop [...]
8 July 2015
by AFP
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN resolution recognizing the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, branding the measure "confrontational" and a setback to reconciliation in the Balkans. Britain had put forward the text, hoping the [...]
6 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
The Central African Republic, which has had no less than three presidents since 2013, says it wants to emerge from a long and bloody transition by holding legitimate elections. Although already twice postponed, a new elections cal [...]
3 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan
After massive violations of human rights, many countries have introduced policies of forgiveness. But how do they work? This is the subject of a series of articles by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project and associate pro [...]
1 July 2015
by Christine Renaudat, Bogota correspondent
IN COLOMBIA, "ONLY TRUTH WILL GUARANTEE NON-REPETITION"
José Antequera was five years old when his father was shot dead by a Colombian death squad. This young lawyer and founder of the HIJOS association, which brings together children of left wing activists assassinated since the end o [...]
30 June 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
KASSERINE AS A VICTIMIZED REGION OF TUNISIA
On June 16, 2015, six months after Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission opened its doors to victims’ complaints, the Commission received a rather unique case file. It comes from Kasserine, a governorate of 430,000 inhabitants in [...]
28 June 2015
by JusticeInfo.net
BURUNDI GOVERNMENT’S CHOSEN PATH COULD PLUNGE COUNTRY INTO GRAVE CRISIS, SAYS EXPERT
Burundi is set to hold delayed and controversial legislative elections Monday, following two months of violent protests against current President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. Presidential elections are scheduled for J [...]
27 June 2015
by Anneke van Woudenberg
Opinion: Ending Genocide in Rwanda Does not Excuse Murder
When Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda’s intelligence services, was brought into the dock of a London court on Thursday, he clasped his hands above his head in a two-fisted salute to the public gallery. Dozens cheered; o [...]
26 June 2015
by Tomasz Grzywaczewski Mag. iur., PhD Candidate, The Chair of International Law and International Relations; Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź, Poland
The black hole of the quasi states
This paper is devoted to the new challenge for international security system – the rise of quasi-states. Though, these state-like entities exists for more than two decades, the Ukrainian crisis and the declarations of independence [...]
25 June 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, ICC correspondent in The Hague
PALESTINE ENGAGES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AS LAST RESORT
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday carried out its first act of cooperation with International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, submitting a confidential file of several hundred pages in support of its compl [...]
24 June 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
CASE AGAINST RWANDAN SPY CHIEF APPEARS FLIMSY, SAYS EXPERT
Arrested Rwandan spy chief Karenzi Karake is due to reappear in court in Britain on Thursday, where prosecutors have asked for his extradition to Spain. Karake was detained by police at Heathrow airport on Saturday on a Spanish ar [...]
22 June 2015
by AFP
'War crimes' likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN report
Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering.The Commission o [...]
21 June 2015
by Studio Tamani, Fondation Hirondelle, Bamako
MALI'S TOUAREG REBELS SIGN PEACE DEAL
Mali’s Touareg rebels on Saturday signed in Bamako a peace accord already approved by the pro-government side and international mediators. This marked a historic date for the country, which should put an end to years of war. The a [...]
21 June 2015
by Pierre Hazan
War zones: How the man in charge of genocide prevention sees the role of the media.
Adama Dieng is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide to the U.N. Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. He is expressing to JusticeInfo.net his views on media responsibilities and challenges in conflict and post-conflict situa [...]
19 June 2015
by Serge Dumont, Tel Aviv correspondent
ISRAEL ABSOLVES ITS ARMY
Israeli Military Prosecutor Danny Efroni said he was closing a case on the deaths of four Palestinian children killed by an Israeli missile on July 16, 2014, while playing football on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. In so doin [...]
19 June 2015
by Alexandre Liebeskind Deputy Regional Director, Africa Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva
Opinion : Central African Republic, give peace a chance
Last weeks witnessed more of the same in Africa : A failed coup d’Etat in Burundi, the massive violation of the seventh cease-fire in South-Sudan, and a gloomy peace treaty signing ceremony in Bamako in the absence of the Tuaregs, [...]
19 June 2015
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS ENSHRINED IMPUNITY, SAYS LAWYER
Mouloud Boumghar is an Algerian lawyer and Professor in Public Law at the Jules Verne University in Picardy (France). His research centres on violations of human rights and impunity, notably since the publication at the end of the [...]
18 June 2015
by Franck Petit
IS “EXTREME VIOLENCE” A NEW TYPE OF CRIME?
In recent times we see a new type of violent crimes emerging, such as those committed by Islamic State (Daech), Boko Haram in Nigeria, in the Central African Republic and by Mexican cartels. The attacks are intense, have no clear [...]
17 June 2015
by François Sergent, Editor in Chief
JusticeInfo.net takes up the challenge
JusticeInfo.net is launched, as you can see! We will talk about justice, law, remembrance, forgiveness and punishment in transition societies and beyond. How each society deals with its political violence, past and present. Justic [...]