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Suspension of US aid (USAID agency and other grants and organisations): the impact is also felt on transitional justice. Photo: A woman holds a sign that reads: ‘USAID saves lives, save USAID’.
US aid freeze: how many dead?
18 February 2025 by Janet H. Anderson (in The Hague) + Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (in Bogota)
Since the end of January, thousands of people across the globe have received a stop work order as a result of the new US administration’s decision to “pause” global aid for 90 days. In the field of transitional justice, from confl [...]
2024 - The year of international justice in pictures 2024 - A year of international justice in pictures
20 December 2024 by Justice Info
Justice Info is taking a break between 23 December and 5 January. But until we see you again, here are ten powerful images from 2024.
UNITAD teams on the ground in Iraq, helping to find mass graves where victims of the Islamic State organisation were buried. Photo: investigators and technicians (one wearing a waistcoat bearing the United Nations logo) work on a mass grave site. UNITAD’s unfulfilled goals for ISIS accountability in Iraq
19 November 2024 by Hawre Ahmed (for Justice Info)
On 17 September 2024, UNITAD, the United Nations Investigative team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Daesh/ISIS, concluded its mandate after seven years. Human rights activist and jurist Hawre Ahmed says the UN bo [...]
Fighting gender-based crimes - Illustration: a crime scene (police banner and numbered exhibits) where the silhouette of a character marked on the ground is filled in with the colors of the LGBTQ+ community's rainbow flag. The Fight Against Gender Crimes
17 September 2024 by Justice Info
The Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic regime in Iran have introduced laws and practices depriving women of fundamental rights, which many say amounts to “gender apartheid”. Some countries, notably in Africa and the Middle Eas [...]
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Our best justice stories 2023-2024. Justice Info is taking a break. Our publications will resume on August 26.
5 August 2024 by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2023-2024) Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 26. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since August 2023. Six articles where our journalists tell the story o [...]
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19 July 2024 by Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
When a people’s tribunal tries the People’s Republic of China A people’s court sitting in The Hague has “indicted” Chinese President Xi Jinping for genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for crimes against the Uyghur. This unofficial court set up by a non-governmental organisation hop [...]
Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone.
24 June 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova (in Balakliya, Ukraine / MediaPort)
Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path On the morning of April 12, 2022, the day of his 28th birthday, Andrii Shapoval went to his friend’s grandmother’s house in Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, which was under occupation. He never returned home. Through this story, a Ukra [...]
People’s Tribunal on the Murders of Journalists (Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands).
7 May 2024 by Janet H. Anderson (our correspondent in The Hague)
People’s tribunals: “Simply pressing a start button” It’s a court, but also not a court. It has the trappings of some of the Hague courts – judges, officials and witnesses – and deals with high-profile cases, like the next known that is due to hear, on May 16-17, the Filipino P [...]
Nazis and perpetrators of mass crimes: how does one go about it? Photo: A group of men from the 101st reserve battalion of the German police, in uniform, drink and enjoy themselves.
4 April 2024 by Tjitske Lingsma (in The Hague, Netherlands)
“The unconditional belief that you are good is dangerous” Anyone can potentially become a perpetrator of mass atrocities says Alette Smeulers, professor at the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. After a thirty years’ research, she developed a typology in which she distinguishes [...]
Photo montage from the slideshow illustrating our first Justice Info Correspondents' Meeting in Geneva (November 2023).
11 January 2024 by Justice Info
A window onto Justice Info’s editorial team This was a first. Since the creation of Justice Info in 2015, its correspondents had never been able to get together, but it happened at the end of November. Not all of them were present at the team workshops followed by a public [...]
Around the world, justice for the Church's sexual crimes is increasing. Photo: priest.
17 November 2023 by Clémentine Méténier (for Justice Info)
Sexual crimes in the Church: pressure grows as revelations spread Three years ago, Justice Info published a map of investigations undertaken around the world into sexual crimes in the Catholic Church. This year has been marked by important new revelations, particularly in Latin America and Europ [...]
Commission on sexual abuse in the Swiss Church. Photo: Activists from Ending Clergy Abuse pose with portraits of members of the clergy.
14 November 2023 by Clémentine Méténier (for Justice Info)
What next after Swiss report on sexual abuse in the Church? Since its publication in September, a report has been shaking up the secrecy that has surrounded sexual abuse in the Swiss Church since the mid-20th century. The report is still preliminary, but could pave the way towards a more s [...]
Independent enquiry and commission into the crimes of British Special Forces (SAS) in Afghanistan - Photo: a British soldier carries out a night raid.
10 November 2023 by Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
UK military abuses in Afghanistan: SAS in the firing line In London, an independent inquiry into alleged British Special Forces abuses against civilians in Afghanistan has started substantive hearings. The United Kingdom government agreed to the probe at the end of last year, after inten [...]
Looking for the missing in Ukraine - Ukrainian rescuers after the destruction of a residential building in Dnipro (Ukraine) by a missile strike.
29 September 2023 by Margherita Capacci
Looking for the missing in Ukraine Between 20,000 and 30,000 Ukrainians, soldiers and civilians, are considered missing since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion. Some were killed and their bodies never identified, or never returned. Others were abducted. Sin [...]
What justice for enforced disappearances around the world? © Marina Margarina / Justice Info
11 September 2023 by Justice Info
The disappeared who will never be forgotten Fifty years ago, General Pinochet seized power violently in Chile. His regime became the symbol of Latin America's military dictatorships, and the memory of thousands of its enforced disappeared remains vivid in Santiago. Since th [...]
Our best Justice stories - Justice Info takes a break. Publications resume on August 21.
31 July 2023 by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2022-2023) Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 21. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since August 2022. Six articles where our journalists tell the story o [...]
Launch of the ICPA (International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine) in The Hague, Netherlands.
7 July 2023 by Margherita Capacci
The ICPA, new kid on the block in the world capital of international justice Almost any new institution in international justice has to be in the Dutch city of The Hague. On July 3, there was a newcomer: the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA). Ukraine and a number of [...]
Justice in Sudan - Young people demonstrating in Khartoum
31 March 2023 by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan transitional justice: agreement in sight or a "big lie"? A supposed "final agreement" to end the political crisis in Sudan has been announced for this Saturday, April 1, between the country’s military junta and civilian coalition, including new commitments on transitional justice demand [...]
Civilian buildings destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine
16 March 2023 by AFP
UN investigation in Ukraine: Russian war crimes were committed at a "massive scale" A United Nations commission of inquiry established a year ago issued its first written report on March 16. It concludes that violations of the laws of war were committed "at a massive scale" by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. O [...]
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