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What justice for the victims in Afghanistan? An Afghan girl stands at the entrance of her house near a destroyed compound, in the old part of Kabul, on April 10, 2010.
Why Afghan victims still wait for Australian compensations
6 February 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In this latest podcast from our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts, we follow on with a series of episodes on Australia’s investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by its troops in Afghanistan. They discuss and highlight [...]
Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers. Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit (special envoy in Gori, Georgia)
The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), visits a camp set up for victims of the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. ICC: the never-ending nightmare of Darfur's victims
13 June 2023 by Margherita Capacci
This is the first trial for serious crimes committed in Darfur. On June 5 in The Hague, the victims’ representatives took the floor in the Ali-Kushayb case at the International Criminal Court (ICC), amidst ongoing violence in Suda [...]
Oury Baïlo Bah, the brother of a victim of the September 28 massacre, testifies at the trial in Guinea. Guinea: Victims have their say at the stadium massacre trial
27 February 2023 by Matthias Raynal (our correspondent in Conakry (Guinea))
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 [...]
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A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.
12 January 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims In a country where many, especially in the political arena, still tend to see Colombian society as divided in two almost irreconcilable and immovable halves, the very personal processes - away from the public spotlight - of victim [...]
A woman (from behind) wearing a
4 March 2022 by Paula Gaviria
Getting Back to What Matters: Victim Voices and the Making of International Law (3/3) In this third and final episode of Justice Info's series on the Peace Treaty Initiative, the author highlights the many benefits of involving victims of an armed conflict in both negotiations and peace implementation. Provided tha [...]
An old man looks at photos of war victims on a wall in Kosovo.
27 September 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Bringing justice home in Kosovo For more than 20 years, victims in Kosovo told their stories to UN prosecutors and lawyers, to EU judges, again and again. They experienced first-hand the limits and assets of international justice. How can justice be brought back [...]
Camara brothers testify before the Trutch commission (Mali)
5 April 2021 by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
Mali: “The victims speak, the Truth Commission should act" Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission held its third public hearing on Saturday April 3 in Bamako, on the theme of "enforced disappearances". Fourteen victims spoke about eleven incidents, the oldest dating from 1962 [...]
Une famille ivoirienne regarde une retransmission télévisée de Laurent Gbagbo devant la Cour pénale internationale (CPI).
2 February 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Victims and the ICC Alphabet Soup Can victim’s participation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) remain a « nice feature » and could victims envisage in the future to see clarity in « the ICC Alphabet Soup » formed by the multiple victims [...]
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28 January 2021 by Franck Petit
ICC Victims Fund: Waiting for Godot in Georgia ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 6 Georgia was the first place outside the African continent selected by the International Criminal Court for investigation. Twelve years after the 2008 war, the small Caucasian country is still wait [...]
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21 January 2021 by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Victims Fund: Who’s responsible for its failure? (Everybody) ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 5 As shown in previous articles, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has not delivered on its mandate. By 2020, less than 300 victims have received reparations in only one ICC [...]
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 [...]
Instance générale des résistants, des martyrs et blessés de la révolution et des opérations terroristes
14 January 2021 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Wounded of the Revolution still struggle 10 years on Ten years after the Tunisian Revolution on January 14, 2011, the authorities still have not published the official list of wounded and martyrs of this event. About a dozen of them have been organizing a sit-in in Tunis since Decem [...]