Report on Impunity Watch Panel Discussion

Transitional justice: are we ticking the boxes when we should be joining the dots?

Café Dudok, The Hague, 15 December 2009

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Report on Impunity Watch Expert Debate

1 July 2009, Amsterdam: Remembering the Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: Do war memorials unite or divide?
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Dealing with Impunity in Serbia - Options and Obstacles

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Serbia, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed by the Serbian state and citizens during the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution during the 1990s.
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Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Guatemala, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed during its long civil war.
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The Persistence of Truth

This report looks at progress in truth-seeking and the combat of impunity in Guatemala ten years after its UN-backed truth comission, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), published its findings on the events of the internal armed confrontation of 1960-96.
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Impunity Watch Research Instrument

This Impunity Watch tool offers a basic framework for researching the state of accountability in post-conflict societies.
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NEWS

Impunity Watch condemns backlash against minority rights in Serbia

29/04/2009 - Impunity Watch condemns a series of verbal attacks and death threats made against Marko Karadzic, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, during April 2009. The threats come in the wake of his successful campaign to have a progressive new Law against Discrimination passed on 26 March 2009.

The threats, sent to the minister’s office in an anonymous letter, came several days after posters inciting violence against him specifically, and minorities and those who work to protect and promote their rights in general, appeared in Pancevo, a town near Belgrade. Attributed to Crna ruka [“Black Hand”], a neo-fascist organisation, the posters featured explicit images of homosexual sexual intercourse and the question, “Is Serbia a country for these people?”, next to a photograph of Mr Karadzic and several statements made by him in support of recent anti-discrimination legislation. The letter that followed referred to Mr Karadzic’s defence of minority groups in Serbia and threatened him with death for his involvement in advocating non-discrimination against them, alleging that he was acting “under the control of the EU”.

Impunity Watch stresses the importance of apprehending those responsible for threatening and jeopardising the life of Marko Karadzic and insists that criminal charges be brought against them in order to send a clear message that intimidation of groups and individuals committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in Serbia shall not be tolerated. In addition, Impunity Watch supports initiatives to outlaw Neo-Nazi, fascist, racist and hardline nationalistic groups as a necessary step to prevent these kind of incidents, and to protect human rights activists and citizens of minority ethnic origin, religious background or sexual orientation.

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