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Reparations for victims of sexual violence in the French Church: what assessment can be made of the Commission for Recognition and Reparation? Photo: Gargoyles at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (France)
Repairing violence within the Church: “It’s going to take time”
13 February 2025 by Clémentine Méténier (for Justice Info)
France’s Recognition and Reparation Commission (CRR) for alleged sexual violence committed by members of religious institutions, created in October 2021, is taking stock of three years of work. While the number of cases handled re [...]
Antoine Garapon, French magistrate and head of the Commission for Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in the Church, advocates restorative justice. illustration: portrait of Garapon. “Restorative justice is the very soul of justice”
11 February 2025 by Clémentine Méténier (for Justice Info)
Are restorative processes, like those in France dealing with Church abuse, the future in dealing with crimes that courts cannot judge? This is the plea made by French magistrate Antoine Garapon, who heads the Recognition and Repar [...]
Sexual violence in Ukraine - As a result of the war with Russia, sexual crimes perpetrated by Russian soldiers are on the increase. photo: a woman hides her face with her hands. “We need an example and people will speak up”
12 December 2024 by Olga Zhuravel (in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine / Zlochyn)
211 women and 118 men have been registered as victims of conflict-related sexual violence since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, according to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Our correspondent in Dnipro spok [...]
Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014. Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]
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Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
28 June 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war According to the United Nations, there’s been a pattern of sexual violence across Ukraine and the number and consistent reports of sexual violence and rape in Russian-occupied areas suggest “a widespread and systematic pattern com [...]
ICC / Mali - Photo: Abdoulaziz Al Hassan on the day of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
27 June 2024 by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara (our correspondent in Mali)
ICC/Mali: Al Hassan verdict leaves bitter taste On June 26, the International Criminal Court found Abdoulaziz Al Hassan, former head of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, Mali, guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes. But victims took badly his acquittal on all charges re [...]
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.
20 June 2024 by Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
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 huma [...]
Sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Women victims in DRC
5 April 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Breaking the silence on conflict-related sexual violence In 2009 the UN Security Council established a special representative to address sexual violence in wars and violence against women in particular, then considered as “the most silenced crime”. Fifteen years later Special Representa [...]
At the Ousman Sonko trial in Switzerland, Gambian plaintiffs pose at the entrance to the court in Bellinzona.
12 January 2024 by Mariam Sankanu (in Bellinzona, Switzerland)
Ousman Sonko faces the first witness The trial of former Gambian Interior minister Ousman Sonko started in Switzerland on January 8. While he denied all allegations against him, the accused had to listen to the first witness, the widow of a soldier he is accused of h [...]
Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.
7 December 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet (our correspondent in Belgium)
"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali" Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s conclusion presented on Monday December 4 at the end of their trial befo [...]
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 [...]
Trial of the September 28, 2009 massacre in Guinea - Arbitrary detentions, torture... Victims testify about what happened after.
19 May 2023 by Matthias Raynal (our correspondent in Conakry (Guinea))
Conakry trial: torture and arbitrary detention in military camps At the September 28 massacre trial, it was the turn of victims of arbitrary detention and torture to speak out. One of them, Yagouba Barry, recounted on Tuesday May 16 how he was sequestered at the personal home of one of the defe [...]
Oury Baïlo Bah, the brother of a victim of the September 28 massacre, testifies at the trial in Guinea.
27 February 2023 by Matthias Raynal (our correspondent in Conakry (Guinea))
Guinea: Victims have their say at the stadium massacre trial On February 14 at the Dixinn Criminal Court trying the stadium massacre in Guinea’s capital Conakry, the hearing of plaintiffs began. The first tragic accounts of victims, after five months of hearing the accused, are lending weig [...]
Ukrainian judge Volodymyr Pavlov delivers his verdict on a case of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine
10 November 2022 by Iryna Salii
First sentence for sexual violence in the Ukraine war On November 2, the Novozavodsk District Court of Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, handed down a sentence in absentia to two Russian servicemen who were accused of abusing residents of an occupied village in Chernihiv region in Marc [...]
Exterior view of the district court of Chernihiv in Ukraine.
7 October 2022 by Iryna Salii
How a rape trial against Russian soldiers is shaping up in Chernihiv The two Russian soldiers left a phone number behind, but have not answered calls from the court handling their case for having terrorised a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl and her family. While Ukraine’s Prosecutor General is working o [...]
In a street in Conakry, Guinea, near the stadium, two men in military uniforms arrested a civilian. In the background are other men in uniform.
27 September 2022 by Matthias Raynal (in Conakry, Guinea)
Guinea prepares for big stadium massacre trial Thirteen years to the day after the Conakry stadium massacre, the trial of the alleged perpetrators is scheduled to begin this Wednesday, September 28. In 2009, the crackdown on protesters left at least 156 people dead. More than [...]
A church seen at night in France with some ornaments (a cross at the top) illuminated.
23 September 2022 by Clémentine Méténier
Reparations for sexual abuse in the Church: Victims' discontent grows   In France, Almost a year after the publication of a shocking report by France’s Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church, the reparations promised to victims are hardly materializing. Victims point to the flaws of the [...]
Mikhail Romanov
14 July 2022 by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: The first war time rape trial is held in absentia and behind closed doors Last month, an investigation on an alleged wartime rape was for the first time completed in Ukraine. Some say the alleged perpetrator, a Russian soldier, is dead while the prosecutor believes he is in Russia. Proceedings are held [...]
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