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Political treaty on the future of the Chagos Islands between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. Photo: The island of Diego Garcia seen from a satellite.
Will the Chagos treaty address the wrongs of the past?
22 November 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
In October 2024, the United Kingdom and Mauritius suddenly announced that they had “reached a political agreement on the future” of the Chagos islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean from which around 2,000 Chagossians were fo [...]
Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group. Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy
On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
Restitution of stolen gold royal artefacts to Ghana’s Asante king. Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home – what’s the deal?
9 February 2024 by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
After 150 years, 39 artefacts that form part of Asante’s royal regalia are due to return to the Asantehene – the ruler of the Asante people – in Kumasi, Ghana, in February and April this year. Archaeologist and Ghana heritage spec [...]
Independent enquiry and commission into the crimes of British Special Forces (SAS) in Afghanistan - Photo: a British soldier carries out a night raid. UK military abuses in Afghanistan: SAS in the firing line
10 November 2023 by Julia Crawford
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 [...]
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Philippe Sands (international law expert)
16 September 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Philippe Sands: “There is an issue of identity and race” in international justice The renowned lawyer Philippe Sands, a Franco-British law professor and author, is the guest of the Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast, partner of Justice Info. In this free and passionate conversation, Sands reveals how international j [...]
Benin Bronzes
9 July 2021 by Janet Anderson
Colonial Crimes: The empire on which justice (almost) never sets The British empire was the largest in history and it encompassed many colonial crimes. But the UK has been slow and timid in adjusting to contemporary demands for reparations, apologies, and restitution. And while there is no esca [...]
Families of the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre (Northern Ireland)
31 May 2021 by Janet H. Anderson
The bumpy road of truth-seeking in Northern Ireland A two and half year investigation has just concluded on the complete innocence of ten civilians who were killed by the British army in 1971 in Northern Ireland. But the truth-seeking process in the UK province doesn’t satisfy all [...]
15 March 2017 by ICTJ
A Foundation of Lies: "Relatives for Justice" Unpacks the Truth about the Irish Conflict   On February 12th, 1989, sledgehammers smashed through Pat Finucane’s front door in north Belfast. Paramilitaries stormed his family home and found the 39-year-old human rights lawyer eating Sunday dinner with his wife and three [...]
26 December 2016 by AFP
George Michael: From closeted life to gay rights advocate Pop superstar George Michael concealed his homosexuality, as well as the trauma of his boyfriend's death, for years but later became a gay rights advocate and key supporter of HIV campaigns. Michael, who died Sunday at 53, only ca [...]
9 March 2016 by JusticeInfo.net
IJTJ: Call For Papers Special Issue Call for Papers: 2017 special issue 'Beyond Borders: Regional Dimensions and Dynamics of Transitional Justice' Submissions are now open for the 2017 special issue, to be guest edited by Pierre Hazan, editorial adviso [...]
10 August 2015 by JusticeInfo
RWANDA HAILS DISMISSAL OF SPY CHIEF EXTRADITION CASE The Rwandan government says UK extradition procedures launched in June against its intelligence chief Karenzi Karake were a “travesty of justice”. UK judicial authorities announced Monday that the procedures, based on a Spanish ex [...]
16 June 2015 by Dr Cheryl Lawther
Northern Ireland, Dealing with the Past 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 [...]