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Truth Commissions

In search of the causes of violence, listening to the victims

Truth commissions in the field of transitional justice are pillars in the quest for truth in societies that have decided to confront dark periods of their history, whether after a conflict, a dictatorship, or specific crimes committed, for example, against an indigenous population. Justice Info covers truth commissions when they play a significant role in addressing the most serious crimes of the past.

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Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future"

Adel Maizi chaired the “memory committee” at Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the International Council on Archives, where he is an expert on archives and human rights. Maizi explains how the work of remembrance has become the poor relation of transitional justice in Tunisia.
By Olfa Belhassine
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Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage

Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system

Women whose relatives have been victims of violence in the Central African Republic

Central African Republic: Truth Commission struggles to get off the ground

Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.

Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission

Belgian Colonial Past - Black and white photo in which King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium are sitting on armchairs carried by Congolese in traditional dress.

Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims

An installation in memory of the victims of the La Gabarra massacre in Colombia: a colorful spiral made of candles, flowers and sheets of paper on which the names of the victims have been written.

Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to

Gambian President Adama Barrow sits in a chair at an international diplomatic event. In the foreground: a small flag of Gambia.

Gambia: hope for justice fades 9 months after the Truth Commission report

Ensa Badgie prepares to testify (book in hand) at a Gambia Truth Commission (TRCC) hearing, next to an employee

Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations

President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.

Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes

Father Francisco de Roux reads the report in Bogota.

The Truth Commission’s message to Colombia

Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report

Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice

Alejandro Valencia and Carlos Ospina speak about the truth in Colombia

Colombia: Tensions rise ahead of the Truth Commission’s report

During an event of the Truth Commission of Colombia, three ex-Colombian officers, standing on a platform, meet a woman (she is shaking hands with one of them). In the background, a large screen shows the words

Truth in Colombia: “Your sons were innocent people we murdered”

Yahya Jammeh and a

Gambia: Will the government prosecute returned Jammeh hit-men

Seychelles Truth Commission Hearing

Seychelles Truth Commission completes its mandate in hardship

Amnesty recommanded for Sanna Sabally

Who got amnesty from Gambia’s Truth commission, and who didn’t

Drawing of Massamba Gueye

Massamba Gueye: “We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on restitutions between Africa and Europe”

Archives of a file titled

Belgium's colonial past commission stalls

The commissioners of the Colombian Truth Commission are sworn in by Juan Manuel Santos

Can Colombia be a model for the post truth commission period?