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Transitions May 2011: Amnesty Does Not Erase the Truth

ICTJ's monthly newsletter, providing transitional justice news and updates from around the world. South Africa’s Constitutional Court recently made a landmark ruling on the right to speak the truth about crimes amnestied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. ICTJ Truth-Seeking C...

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Newsletter

Kenya Transitional Justice Brief, Vol. 1, No. 1

The Kenya Transitional Justice Brief, a quarterly bulletin by ICTJ highlighting current developments in the field of transitional justice in Kenya. This first edition provides a summary and analysis of developments surrounding the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) involvement in ...

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Iraqi Voices: Attitudes Toward Transitional Justice and Social Reconstruction

This report is based on data obtained from extensive interviews and focus group discussions conducted in July and August 2003 with representatives from a broad cross-section of the Iraqi population. The report’s conclusions and recommendations are divided into seven main areas: past h...

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ICTJ, Human Rights Center - University of California, Berkeley

Report

On Sequences and Linkages: the Relationship between Justice, Security and Development

Some habits die hard. This is especially true of ways of thinking. Despite significant changes in national and international law and practice in the last thirty years—the period that corresponds with the emergence of transitional justice as a field—the recent upheaval in the Middle East and Northern Africa region has provoked proposals that hearken back to a period that we may have thought long gone.

04/29/11
In Focus

Conflict and Transitional Justice in Africa (Dari)

Background on the challenges in addressing legacies of past violence in sub-Saharan African countries such as Uganda, Ethiopia and Eritrea. The fact sheet gives an overview of the situation in the region and ICTJ's approaches in promoting transitional justice in individual countries. ...

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Fact Sheet

In the High Court of South Africa: Judgment: Nkadimeng, et al

Document from the High Court of South Africa regarding a case on enforced disappearances.

Unofficial Translation of Iraq's Accountability and Justice Law

Unofficial Translation of Iraq’s Accountability and Justice Law.

Northern Uganda: Research Note on Attitudes About Peace and Justice in Northern Uganda

This research note presents preliminary population-based data on attitudes about peace and justice in northern Uganda. The survey data presented in this report were collected from April to June 2007 in eight districts of northern Uganda.

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ICTJ; HRC; Payson Center

Southern African Regional Assessment Mission Reports

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique and Namibia have all experienced massive violations of human rights in the recent past. Apart from Zimbabwe, where a political crisis continues, all of these states have further seen the end of major conflicts within the last two decades. Onl...

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ICTJ

Report

Transitional Justice Reporting Audit: A Review of media Coverage of the Truth and Reconciliation Process in Liberia

This initiative aims to promote accountability within the media through independent monitoring of the performance of the media during the TRC process. While freedom of the press is essential to the cultivation of a democratic culture, it is only fair for the media to labor in overcomi...

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ICTJ; Liberia Media Center

Report