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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

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” said Nelson Mandela. At a time when the party he brought to power at the end of apartheid has just lost its absolute majority, these words recall the roots of South Africa’s current commitment to helping Palestine on the international […]

By Benjamin Bibas (in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa)

Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice

Can Joseph Boakai, Liberia's new president, be seen as a hope for justice for past war crimes? Photo: Boakai stands on a platform in front of a crowd of supporters during his election campaign.

Liberia has a new president: is there renewed hope for justice?

George Weah, the President of Liberia, is keeping silent and leaving the truth about the war crimes he denounced at the start of his term of office on hold.

George Weah’s politics of silence

The truth about a disinformation campaign against the transitional justice process in Colombia. Former military officials confess before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).

Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice

War Crimes in Bosnia - A woman walks among the graves of the Potocari cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Time is running out for war crimes prosecution in Bosnia

In a street in Chile, a poster stuck on a wall forms this sentence:

Is a virtuous model of reparation emerging in Chile?

A hand emerging from the ground holds a ballot in the colors of the flag of Colombia

Colombia wagers on political participation as a form of redress

Lamin Sise (chairman of the gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission) presents the final report of the TRRC to Adama Barrow (president on the Gambia)

Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result

Former FARC members walk down a road dressed in white and carrying white flags.

Colombia’s TRC gets an extension to jump over the elections

Two American soldiers in front of a portrait of George Floyd posted in the street

Why transitional justice in the U.S. must address both domestic and foreign policy

Parliament building in Kathmandu (Nepal)

Is there still hope for Nepal’s flawed transitional justice process?