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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.

Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol.
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Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid”

Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday that violations against women and girls in that country were “so severe and extensive” that “they may amount to crimes against humanity”. In Iran too, repression against women is systemic. Women protesters since September 2022 have been killed, imprisoned, raped, […]
By Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
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International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs): an option for financing Ukraine with Russian money. Image: photo montage of a rouble coin, a Ukrainian flag and frost.

Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool

Justice in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Photo: people displaced by the conflict between the local Kamwina Nsapu militia and government forces wait to receive food rations.

Kasai: how three senior officials escaped justice

In Ukraine, a claim for reparation (compensation) for damages and destructions is launched. Photos: several images of Ukrainians in front of civilian buildings (often homes) destroyed by Russian missiles.

Register of Damages for Ukraine: “The biggest claims program in history”

Sudan: in response to the crimes committed in El-Fasher, and more generally in the Darfur region, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching an appeal for testimony. Photo: A cattle market burns down in El-Fasher after a bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Suliman Baldo: El-Fasher, a siege “comparable to Gaza”

Oleksandr Kostornyi, a former KGB officer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine for high treason. Photo: Kostornyi is pressed up against the glass of the dock, his hand resting on it, facing his reflection.

Kostornyi, the former KGB officer found guilty of high treason

Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.

Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide

Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.

Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire”

Justice for Syria and the International court of Justice (ICJ) - Photo: a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the streets of Damascus.

Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria?

International justice: why is South Africa defending Palestine? - Photo: in 1998, Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa) prepares to embrace Yasser Arafat (President of the Palestinian Authority).

Why South Africa is fighting for Palestine in The Hague

Lundin trial in Sweden - Photo: soldiers of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) train. A man brandishes a weapon and a fist.

Lundin trial: the prosecutor counter-attacks

Syrian trial in Paris (France) - Obeida Dabbagh speaks to the press following the verdict of three high-ranking Syrian security officials found guilty, in their absence, of crimes against humanity (torture) committed against his brother and nephew.

Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment

Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.

Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator?

Ndélé 1 trial before the Special Criminal Court (CPS) - Photo: Azor Kalite, Charfadine Moussa, Antar Hamat and Oscar Wordjonodroba stand behind their lawyers in their orange prison uniforms.

At Ndélé’s first trial, in the Central African Republic

It's time for the closing arguments and indictments (life imprisonment) in the September 28 trial in Conakry, Guinea. Photo: ex-President Moussa Dadis Camara and his co-defendants have left their box, and are seated facing the court, close to the lawyers and magistrates.

In Guinea, the prosecution asks for life sentences

A national tribunal for war crimes in Liberia - Photo: Joseph Boakai speaks before parliament.

The evidence battleground for Liberia’s war crimes court

Palestine / Israel - Karim Khan: International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC)

ICC’s Khan goes after Israel and Hamas

Yaron Wax, deputy head of mission for the Israeli embassy in the Netherlands, British lawyer and member of Israel's legal team, Malcom Shaw KC and Member of Israel's legal team Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham attend a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of South Africa's request on a Gaza ceasefire in The Hague, on May 24, 2024.

The ICJ’s warning to Israel

Syrian trial in France. Photo: Bashar al-Assad poster on a street in Damascus, Syria.

In France, a first Syrian trial “by default”