Special Focus

Our special files bring together different articles linked by a common theme or justice process. Some are clearly event-driven, others are long-term.

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 [...]
What justice for enforced disappearances around the world? © Marina Margarina / Justice Info The disappeared who will never be forgotten
11 September 2023 by Justice Info
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 [...]
Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a huge blood-red Félicien Kabuga, the last judgment
29 November 2022 by Justice Info
Félicien Kabuga played the last of the great roles in the most litigated genocide in history: after having been the last of the great fugitives for a long time, he came to close the proceedings of the UN tribunal in charge of tryi [...]
Illustration mettant en scène des hommes et femmes d'affaire flottant sur un océan déchaîné. Certains semblent confiants et d'autres paniquent. Au fond, un radeau flotte transportant un magistrat en robe (mat symolisant la balance de la justice). Corporations face the rising tide of justice
20 June 2022 by Justice Info
It is talked about for every war; it is revealed after every dictatorship; it is even more debated in the face of the destruction of the planet and climate change: the responsibility of businesses in international crimes is both r [...]
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Religious people (in small format) are lined up to confess in turn to the ear of a church member (in large format) who hides one eye while listening with one ear.
4 October 2021 by Justice Info
The Church and its sexual crimes The scale of sexual crimes committed by members of the Catholic Church poses an unprecedented justice challenge for many countries on several continents. A multitude of transitional justice mechanisms are at work to uncover the tr [...]
Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember
1 June 2021 by Justice Info
Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes The colonial past has come back into the spotlight. Descendants of the colonized are demanding reparations. Former colonial powers, as if suddenly waking up, under pressure from changing power relations, are finally showing some w [...]
Massaquoi trial in Liberia
12 April 2021 by JusticeInfo.net
The Massaquoi Affair: the Finnish model put to the test In February 2021, a Finnish court began the trial of Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander and spokesman for the Sierra Leonean rebellion, accused of crimes against humanity committed in Liberia twenty years ago. However, the Finni [...]
ICC's Trust Fund for Victims (TFV): a failure
21 January 2021 by JusticeInfo.net
The failure of the ICC Victims Fund For more than 15 years, the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has constantly reviewed its plans, strategy and modus operandi. The result is a clear failure. Its budget is opaque. Its concrete actions [...]
4 December 2020 by JusticeInfo.net
ICC desperately seeking prosecutor Who will be the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The successor of Fatou Bensouda was to be a consensus candidate among a handful of finalists selected well in advance. But this well-ordered process was s [...]
9 April 2020 by JusticeInfo.net
Transitional Justice: The great Colombian challenge No country in the world has conceived and decided to implement such comprehensive and multifaceted justice process as Colombia. This transitional justice was born out of the historic peace agreements, at the end of 2016, between t [...]
12 June 2019 by JusticeInfo.net
Time for the truth in Gambia Since January 2019, Gambians have been glued to the public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This commission was established to shed light on human rights violations committed durin [...]
17 March 2019 by JusticeInfo.net
Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide Twenty-five years ago, between April and July 1994, Tutsis in Rwanda were victims of genocide. JusticeInfo joins the commemorations by publishing over the coming weeks numerous articles, interviews, maps and reports.