Journalists For Justice

1 week ago | jfjustice.net | Too Jared

As the new administration prepares to assume office after the election of the new chancellor, stakeholders of international law and justice will be watching to see how the Federal Republic of Germany will walk the diplomatic tightrope between its historical commitments as a staunch ally of Israel and its obligations under international law in the face of the controversy surrounding the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

3 weeks ago | jfjustice.net | Too Jared |Mary Wasike

The conviction in the United States of Michael Sang Correa, an alleged member of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s notorious “Junglers” death squad, is a welcome ray of hope for the victims of the dictator’s regime as the transitional justice process in the West African nation limps along on its slow and uncertain way.

4 weeks ago | jfjustice.net | Too Jared

American investigative journalist and author Jane Mayer was not talking about Sudan when she said: “Nothing predicts future behaviour as much as past impunity.”However, anyone who knows the history of that country would find this an apt description of what has happened and is still happening there, particularly in Darfur.

1 month ago | jfjustice.net | Too Jared

Although the Kenyan government’s inaction on the rising cases of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, enforced abductions, and illegal detentions has angered many citizens and civil society organisations, humanitarian justice experts have expressed scepticism over their proposal to involve the International Criminal Court (ICC).

2 months ago | jfjustice.net | Isaac Korir

While the families of the victims of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” and human rights groups have welcomed his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, as a step towards justice, his supporters have opposed it, terming it political persecution. “This is a big, long-awaited day for justice,” Randy delos Santos, the uncle of a teenager killed in an anti-drug operation in 2017, told The Associated Press.