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The victims’ long wait in Bangui What Lubanga is not guilty of A sense of pride after Videla trial

A narrow path to legitimacy for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Judge Cotte: “We are making progress”* Building up a polished image of peace and justice

Mladic: just another “false start” ICC second case ends in the shadows of Lubanga’s trial In or out - still no sense of justice ICTY: Gotovina’s attack on Knin was “legal” (defence) The smaller the...

Beyond Taylor, “Where is our justice?” by Janet Anderson, The Hague Sierra Leone and Liberia experimented with very different paths to justice – restorative with truth commissions and retributive with the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) trials. How do local communities see this,...

The only LRA trial in deadlock by Mark Schenkel, Kampala Compared to the vociferous campaign against Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, the silence surrounding the only LRA trial to...

Shaping Kenya’s political landscape ICC judges found last week there are grounds to believe prosecutors’ claims that a bloodthirsty ritual saw the leaders of Kenya’s Kalenjin tribe create a criminal...

Losing civil parties in Cambodia Soum Rithy spent two years of his youth being beaten and tortured in a Khmer Rouge jail between 1977 and 1979, after Pol Pot’s cadres mistook him for a soldier in the...

Traditional methods of conflict prevention and management are increasingly regarded as a viable alternative in the truth and reconciliation process, aimed at avoiding the resurgence of violence in...

“We cannot follow the proceedings at the Rwanda tribunal in Butare.” Lambert has no money to travel to Tanzania to witness the trial against alleged genocide suspects from 1994. The Rwandan would...

In Ivory Coast, the gap between rhetoric and reality is growing dangerously large. On paper, all seems to be heading in the right direction. There is a Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) expressed concern Thursday about post-election violence in Nigeria and said his office would investigate whether crimes had been committed. ...

In the most dangerous place in the world to be a girl or woman February 21 was a good day. By Lisa Clifford, London A military court in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo found nine soldiers...

The International Criminal Court has much work to do, especially since the landmark decision by the UN Security Council Saturday, to refer the case of Libya to the court. But how long will it take to...

"Life here is terrible. Our children are dying from the extreme cold. We are refugees in our own country," says a resident of the Ya Mumbi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Kenya's Northern...

Kenya expects the International Criminal Court this month to hand out six arrest warrants to alleged perpetrators of the country's post-election violence. Public speculation is rife, and the looming...

Published on : 2 November 2010 - 1:52pm | By International Justice Tribune (IJT 116) Commercially motivated pillage has taken on increasing importance in recent years as the illegal exploitation of...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, is in court to defend himself on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in Liberia's neighbour to the west, Sierra Leone...

In the next few weeks, Rwanda will complete the most comprehensive post-conflict justice programme attempted anywhere in the world. Since 2001, 11,000 community-based gacaca courts, overseen by...

War ended in Liberia almost seven years ago. It has left scars in the land and the people. The country is slowly recovering and questions regarding justice and impunity are being addressed but not to...

The Liberian Senate has for the second time rejected six individuals nominated by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to serve as commissioners on the Independent National Human Rights Commission of...