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A church seen at night in France with some ornaments (a cross at the top) illuminated.
23 September 2022 by Clémentine Méténier
Reparations for sexual abuse in the Church: Victims' discontent grows   In France, Almost a year after the publication of a shocking report by France’s Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church, the reparations promised to victims are hardly materializing. Victims point to the flaws of the [...]
Mikhail Romanov
14 July 2022 by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: The first war time rape trial is held in absentia and behind closed doors Last month, an investigation on an alleged wartime rape was for the first time completed in Ukraine. Some say the alleged perpetrator, a Russian soldier, is dead while the prosecutor believes he is in Russia. Proceedings are held [...]
A large group of indigenous women outside the Justice Palace in Guatemala
28 March 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Guatemala: How indigenous women beat paramilitaries Despite all odds, Guatemala’s highest court has sentenced five former paramilitary soldiers to 30 years in jail for raping 36 indigenous Maya Achi women during the country’s civil war, on January 24. In this new podcast, our partn [...]
Women hold a banner that reads in Spanish:
14 March 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims Colombia’s special peace tribunal is about to open three new – and perhaps final – cases. However, its decision to focus on armed actors and veer from its previous approach centred on symbolic crimes, is bringing a flurry of criti [...]
Ousman Sonko
25 January 2022 by Julia Crawford
Five years on, the slow wheels of Swiss justice in Gambian case Five years ago, on 26 January 2017, former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko was arrested in Switzerland, suspected of crimes against humanity. Five years after, he is still in pre-trial detention in the Alpine country. Why i [...]
In Camera episode 4 - Can the Church repair its crimes?
17 January 2022 by Bronwen Cowley
Can the French Church "repair" its crimes? IN CAMERA | Episode 4 > Will the Church in France "pay" for its crimes? And what can it do to "repair" them? These are burning questions at the start of 2022, after an explosive report on October 5 on sexual abuse in the Church [...]
French policemen posted outside a church
28 October 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual abuse in the Church: Tough task for French justice The Church of France has covered up a massive crime, but what about the justice system and the statute of limitations? Shocked by the Sauvé report, the Minister of Justice has asked prosecutors to open investigations even if the f [...]
Jean-Marc Sauvé submits his report to Eric de Moulins-Beaufort
5 October 2021 by AFP
Sexual abuse in the French Church: hundreds of thousands of victims The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church in France (Ciase) submitted its report on 5 October. Its revelations are devastating for the Catholic Church. Between 1950 and 2020, at least 216,000 children were sexually [...]
Religious people (in small format) are lined up to confess in turn to the ear of a church member (in large format) who hides one eye while listening with one ear.
4 October 2021 by Justice Info
The Church and its sexual crimes The scale of sexual crimes committed by members of the Catholic Church poses an unprecedented justice challenge for many countries on several continents. A multitude of transitional justice mechanisms are at work to uncover the tr [...]
Pope Francis at the Vatican, accompanied by other church leaders
19 July 2021 by Julia Crawford
Church is obstructing justice for clerical child abuse, say UN experts Last month, the United Nations made public that four of their special human rights rapporteurs have complained to the Vatican about the lack of accountability for perpetrators of child abuse and reparation for victims. They called [...]
Toufah Jallow an another women watch the horizon from a Gambian beach
12 March 2021 by Marion Volkmann-Brandau and Toufah Jallow
Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia has under-investigated and missed acknowledging sexual violence under Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, Marion Volkmann-Brandau, human rights lawyer, and Toufah Jallow, Gam [...]
Demonstration for
15 February 2021 by Nicolas Rocca
Seoul court decision reignites Japan-Korea war of memory A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate 12 sex slaves of the Japanese army during occupation of the country, just as the new US administration is urging appeasement between its two regional allies.  The court decision [...]
5 February 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered Two landmark trials in Germany have been dealing with crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Syria and Iraq. So far, they have not focused on sexual and gender-based violence. Civil party lawyers in both Koble [...]