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.
Transitional Justice’s Uneven Path in the DRC
16 June 2015
by Dr Valérie Arnould
In a country marked by protracted conflicts which are estimated to have caused the death and displacement of millions of civilians, transitional justice efforts have been slow and patchy. Despite some recent advances, in particula [...]
16 June 2015
by Dr Cheryl Lawther
A brief survey of news headlines from one week in late June 2015 reveals that, in Northern Ireland, the past is still very much in the present. Those headlines relate to the recovery of the bodies of two of the disappeared – victi [...]
15 June 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, defying a court order for him to stay, as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested for alleged war crimes and genocide. The International Criminal Court [...]
15 June 2015
by Zoran Culafic, Belgrade correspondent
Last week’s arrest of wartime Srebrenica Commander Naser Oric in Switzerland has sparked heated reactions from Bosniaks and Serbs along ethnic lines. A hero for the former and a criminal for the latter, Oric is becoming once again [...]
11 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza,JusticeInfo.Net, Arusha
“Historic Decision” of African Court on Murdered Burkina Faso Journalist
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday hailed as “historic” an African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) order that Burkina Faso must reopen investigations into the 1998 murder of journalist Norbert Zongo and three of [...]
11 June 2015
by Kristy Siegfried IRIN
Eritrea the european big mistake
OXFORD, 10 June 2015 (IRIN) - Several nations recently toughened their stance on asylum requests from Eritrea after a Danish report suggested those leaving the country do so largely for economic reasons. The results of a year-long [...]
10 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net, Arusha
Burundi President Wields Constitutional Court Ruling
A May 5 decision by Burundi’s Constitutional Court is now serving as a weapon for President Pierre Nkurunziza and his regime. Despite unprecedented internal protests and appeals from donor countries, the head of state is clear tha [...]
10 June 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent
Former ICC Witness Regrets Testifying
Pierre Mbodina Iribi, an imprisoned ex-member of the Congolese intelligence services, is a former witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has been in jail in Kinshasa for more than ten years. In spring 2011, he w [...]
7 June 2015
by Hippolyte Marboua, Fondation Hirondelle Radio Ndeke Luka, Bangui
CAR Special Court signed into law
The Central African Republic (CAR) has taken a new step towards setting up a Special Criminal Court to try the most serious crimes committed in the country in the last ten years. On June 3, President Catherine Samba-Panza signed o [...]
7 June 2015
by Mina Rauschenbach
Justice for whom? The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina after twenty years of "doing justice"
The scene of one of the worst cases of war-related collective violence in Europe after the Second World War, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is still recovering from its recent violent past. In the face of the widespread atrocities commi [...]
7 June 2015
by Dr Phil Clark, SOAS
Global Court Wrestling in Africa
The International Criminal Court (ICC) – the first permanent global court mandated to investigate and prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – has faced immense challenges since its inauguration in 2002. In par [...]
5 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Mission Partly Accomplished for Rwanda Tribunal
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is set to close its doors this year after pronouncing judgment in its last Appeals trial. Whilst this UN body’s contribution to the fight against impunity is not in question, o [...]
5 June 2015
by Dr Clara Sandoval
Facing the justice dilemma in Colombia
Peace negotiations are currently taking place in Havana between the Colombian government and the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) to end the oldest internal armed conflict in the world, with more than 6 million vi [...]
5 June 2015
by Dr Peter Manning
Confronting Khmer Rouge crimes in Cambodia
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia face significant challenges as they reckon with the crimes of the Khmer Rouge The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) were established in 2006 as a “mixed” [...]
4 June 2015
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : The transitional Justice Gap
More than three and half months after the formation of the Commissions for Truth and Reconciliation and the Investigation of Enforced Disappearance, little concrete action has been taken to move the country forward towards sustain [...]
4 June 2015
by Julia Crawford
CAMBODIA TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE – IN BRIEF
Context - Khmer Rouge terror: Cambodia has been scarred by decades of violence and war, beginning even before its independence from France in 1953. During the Cold War era and the Vietnam War (1955-75), the regime of Norodom Sihan [...]
3 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Habré Trial in Senegal an Important Step for African Justice
A special court in Senegal (the Extraordinary African Chambers, EAC) has announced it plans to start the trial of former Chadian president Hissène Habré on July 20 this year. This will be the first time a former African dictator g [...]
3 June 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi and the Risk of Civil War
Burundian university professor René Claude Niyonkuru, a trained lawyer and human rights activist, fears President Pierre Nkurunziza’s stubborn desire to run for a third term despite massive internal protest could plunge Burundi ba [...]