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21 November 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Fear and Trauma Silencing Tunisia’s Women Victims “L”, the woman hiding in the cupboard, lived semi-hidden for 17 years. To protect her political activist husband wanted by ex-president Ben Ali’s police, she made a one-metre wide cavity in a wall behind a cupboard and hid her hus [...]
26 October 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisian Victims Want More Say in Transitional Justice Victims of the Tunisian dictatorship say the country’s ongoing transitional justice process is politicized and too bureaucratic. Some want to have a more direct voice in it. These are some of the findings of a report by the resear [...]
31 August 2015 by Dr. Kora Andrieu, Human Rights Officer, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Mali
Confronting the dictatorial past in Tunisia: The politicization of transitional justice  In Tunisia, soon after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in January 2011, the toolkit of transitional justice was almost immediately put in place. Countless conferences, workshops and seminars were organized by the international com [...]
24 August 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunisia correspondent
Presidential Threat to Tunisia’s Transitional Justice In autumn 2014, campaigning was in full swing in Tunisia for legislative and presidential elections. Two political parties were running neck and neck at the top of the opinion polls, the moderate Islamist Ennahdha and Nidaa Tounès [...]
19 August 2015 by Ram Bhandari
Nepal: the role of Transitional Justice Commissions from a victim perspective The recently established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) have limited their activities to government territories, meeting with line ministries and [...]
12 August 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis Correspondent
Tunisians Support the Truth Commission “Have you heard of transitional justice?”, “Do you know what kinds of abuses transitional justice deals with?”, “What do you expect of transitional justice?”, “Have you heard of the Truth and Dignity Commission?”, “Do you have con [...]
31 July 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project and associate professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Truth without Repentance in South Africa After former Yugoslavia last week, we continue our series on forgiveness with a look at the experience of South Africa and its Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1995-2002). Next week, we will wrap up with a conclusion covering [...]
27 July 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisia Transitional Justice Unit Focuses on Victims In November 2014, three partners came together with the idea of creating a transitional justice observatory in Tunisia, a human sciences research unit with a focus on victims. The partners are the Tunis-based Kawakibi Centre for D [...]
12 July 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
ERITREA CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMISSION FACES CHALLENGES, SAYS CHAIRMAN In June, an inquiry commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a 500-page report detailing how Eritrea, under Isaias Afwerki's iron-fisted regime for the past 22 years, has created a repressive system [...]
1 July 2015 by Christine Renaudat, Bogota correspondent
IN COLOMBIA, "ONLY TRUTH WILL GUARANTEE NON-REPETITION" José Antequera was five years old when his father was shot dead by a Colombian death squad. This young lawyer and founder of the HIJOS association, which brings together children of left wing activists assassinated since the end o [...]
30 June 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
KASSERINE AS A VICTIMIZED REGION OF TUNISIA On June 16, 2015, six months after Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission opened its doors to victims’ complaints, the Commission received a rather unique case file. It comes from Kasserine, a governorate of 430,000 inhabitants in [...]
25 June 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, ICC correspondent in The Hague
PALESTINE ENGAGES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AS LAST RESORT The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday carried out its first act of cooperation with International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, submitting a confidential file of several hundred pages in support of its compl [...]
22 June 2015 by AFP
'War crimes' likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN report Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering.The Commission o [...]