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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.

Patricia Tobon Yagari

Patricia Tobón Yagarí: “A legacy of Colombia’s TRC will be the active participation of ethnic peoples”

JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Patricia Tobón Yagarí Commissioner in Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Patricia Tobón Yagarí is one of the 11 commissioners serving on Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), one of three transitional justice institutions created as a result of the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla. A member […]

By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Parliament building in Kathmandu (Nepal)

Is there still hope for Nepal’s flawed transitional justice process?

Toufah Jallow an another women watch the horizon from a Gambian beach

Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance

Bubacarr Bah testifies before the Truth Commission (TRRC) in The Gambia

Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up

Villagers observe CVR-led exhumations in Burundi

Burundi’s TRC presents divisive activity report

Yahyah Jammehon 22 July 2016 (Gambia)

Gambia: Did Jammeh order the killing of migrants?

Lamin Darboe testifies before the TRRC in Gambia

Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA

Graffiti sur un quai de Seine à Paris :

France/Algeria: towards a "truth and memory" commission?

Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.

Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers

The Seychelles’ Truth Commission, the year ahead

Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough

How Colombia’s Truth Commission navigated a pandemic year

Truth Commission: "Mali hears you, the world is watching"

Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency

Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”

Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight

Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia

Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die"

Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: “It’s important, but will it succeed?”