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Truth Commissions
12 April 2017 by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
Judging crimes of the Jammeh era poses challenge in Gambia Gambia is awaiting the creation of a transitional justice mechanism promised by the new government to help heal wounds after 22 years of dictatorial rule under former president Yahya Jammeh. In the meantime, police and judiciary h [...]
5 April 2017 by Sara Perria, IRIN
UN convenes Rohingya abuse investigation, but Myanmar says it won’t cooperate YANGON, 4 April 2017 - The UN’s main human rights body is assembling a team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya, even as the government appears set to deny investigators access to areas where crimes against huma [...]
29 March 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Myanmar lacks discussion on post-conflict justice, says expert In Myanmar, the start of a democratic transition in 2010 and the arrival in power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in early 2016 raised much hope. But the military still holds considerable power. Conflicts [...]
27 March 2017 by Kelli Muddell, Director of the ICTJ's Gender Justice Program and Sibley Hawkins, ICTJ Program Officer
Tunisia : Men and Boys Are Victims Of Sexual Violence, Too Something unusual happened on the first day of the public hearings being held by Tunisia’s national Truth and Dignity Commission. Sami Brahim came forward to give personal testimony of having survived sexual violence in prison dur [...]
20 March 2017 by Su Myat Mon, Frontier
Rakhine camps must close, says Myanmar's Annan Advisory Commission The office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar has accepted the recommendations of an advisory panel led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which also call for the perpetrators of human rights violations to be [...]
14 March 2017 by Thomas Kean (Frontier Myanmar)
Myanmar needs international inquiry on Rohingya abuses by security forces, says UN rapporteur As the Human Rights Council session in Geneva gets underway, Thomas Kean of our partner Frontier speaks to UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee about her call for a commission of inquiry into alleged abu [...]
10 January 2017 by Olfa Belhassine
Rewriting Tunisia’s history to preserve dissident memories A third survey by the Transitional Justice Barometer research body aims for reform of Tunisia’s history teaching manuals. History and memory are a central concern of victims in Tunisia, according to a survey by the Transitional Ju [...]
5 January 2017 by AFP
Scars haunt Colombian rebels as they disarm Jair's missing right leg reminds him of many things: the heavy price he paid for fighting in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the pain he inflicted on others. The 25-year-old guerrilla came of age in the FARC, which [...]
4 January 2017 by Leigh A Payne
Report on Truth Commissions and Corporate Complicity When the Brazilian National Truth Commission (CNV) began in 2012, its decision to investigate not only the crimes of state agents but also corporate complicity in the dictatorship’s repressive apparatus seemed like an innovative d [...]
19 December 2016 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: New technology and old hopes for transitional justice Can a smartphone and an App hold war criminals accountable? Eyewitness, an App developed by the International Bar Association (IBA), is trying to help combat impunity with this new technological tool, said to be reliable, free and [...]
12 December 2016 by Gaël Cogné in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso still awaiting justice for Sankara and Zongo murders December 13 marks 18 years since the assassination of journalist Norbert Zongo in Burkina Faso. Civil society organizations are organizing commemorations.  But the Zongo family is not alone in demanding justice. Those close to for [...]
28 November 2016 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Looking back in Nepal and Bosnia, ICC trying to look forward It was once again a week of contrasts for transitional justice, notably in Cambodia, The Hague, South Sudan, Bosnia and Nepal, reflecting how paths to national reconciliation and their difficulties differ from country to country. [...]
21 November 2016 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tears for Tunisia and the ICC, money for the CAR The first public hearings of victims started this week in Tunisia while the International Criminal Court (ICC), holding its annual Assembly of States Parties, suffered criticism and a new symbolic departure – that of Russia, which [...]
18 November 2016 by AFP
Anger and tears as Tunisians relive torture years As anger erupted and the tears began to flow, four hours of testimony on live television by abuse victims shone a rare spotlight on the crimes of Tunisia's dark dictatorship years. In a plain white room inside a night club once ow [...]
10 November 2016 by Vony Rambolamanana, correspondent in Geneva
Tunisia still waiting to get Ben Ali clan funds back from Switzerland More than five years after the Tunisian revolution, 43 million Swiss francs from the corrupt system of former dictator Ben Ali remain blocked in Switzerland.  In April 2014, Tunisia thought it would be able to recover 35 million p [...]
3 October 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Burundi accuses Belgium and France as UN launches human rights investigation “Pierre Nkurunziza, his supporters, and all those who chose the path of violence should be aware that they will not get away with their crimes.” This is how Dimitris Christopoulos,  new president of the International Federation fo [...]
29 September 2016 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
“Tunisia must work on tracking assets abroad”, says ICTJ expert Ruben Carranza is director of the Reparations Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and an expert in tracking dictators’ money. It is thanks to him that the Philippines, his home country, managed to r [...]
23 September 2016 by Vony Rambolamanana in Geneva
Damning report says Syria situation should be referred to ICC The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria on September 19 presented a damning report to the UN Human Rights Council on abuses committed there between January 10 and July 20, 2016. The Commission, which was set u [...]
24 August 2016 by Geeta Koska
Tunisia: the price of economic reconciliation in the transitional justice process. In recent years the involvement of economic elites and business in corruption has come under increasing scrutiny. In response, transitional justice has also come under pressure to address the link between the private sector, corru [...]