12 October 2016
On 12 October 2016 in Guatemala, the “Clean Hands” campaign (Manos Limpias) was relaunched to promote integrity and ethics within the judiciary. The campaign is driven by the association of judges of the Institute of the Judiciary since 2015, and now associations of university students and civil society organizations have joined, supported by Impunity Watch.
19 September 2016
New study critically examines victim participation in the Kenyan ICC cases, exploring the assumed benefits and impact of participation, the challenges faced by victims, as well as the broader institutional challenges facing judges and lawyers.
19 August 2016
Impunity Watch expresses its solidarity with the victims and survivors of the internal armed conflict, and reaffirms its commitment to Guatemalan society to continue to support their efforts to build a genuine democratic rule of law. We urge the international community to continue to ensure respect for human rights and compliance with international standards of transitional justice in Guatemala, so that the past will not happen again.
19 August 2016
The “Barundikazi” – the women and girls of Burundi – have been at the center of the current political and security crisis, as victims, activists and peacebuilders. The visit on 25-26 February by the African Union High-Level delegation (consisting of the heads of state of South Africa, Senegal, Gabon, Ethiopia and Mauritania) may present one of the last remaining opportunities to quell the escalating violence, which has been triggered by President Nkurunziza’s contested third term, unparalleled since Burundi’s decade-long civil war.
19 August 2016
As a coalition of international human rights groups, we have followed with great interest the selection process for the Guatemalan Constitutional Court (Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala), an autonomous tribunal of last instance with a crucial role in the country’s legal system. Electoral authorities have a unique opportunity and duty to ensure that the Guatemalan people will be served by honorable, extremely capable, impartial, and independent justices. We join the calls from Guatemala and around the world urging for the formation of a Constitutional Court that will strengthen and contribute to a society with justice for all.
19 August 2016
On 4 March 2016, in Kayanza in the country’s north, Burundi’s President officially launched the operational phase of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and its popular awareness-raising campaign. Before a packed conference hall composed of the highest levels of government, senior party officials, ambassadors, and other invitees, the President – addressing his compatriots predominantly in his native Kirundi – invited all Burundians to participate in the process, orating the adage, there is no future without forgiveness.
19 August 2016
Impunity Watch is pleased to announce the publication of a new research report, entitled “Victim Participation and Transitional Justice in Cambodia: the case of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)”, authored by Dr. Rudina Jasini. A version of this report in Khmer is also available. The research project was implemented as part of a broader Impunity Watch research programme on “Promoting Active Participation in Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice.”
19 August 2016
As part of its research efforts accompanying the process of transitional justice in Tunisia, the Transitional Justice Barometer Project, a partnership involving Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center, the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and Impunity Watch, is publishing its second study entitled: “The ‘Victim Zone’ and Collective Reparations – Ain Draham and Sidi Makhlouf : ‘So Rich and yet so Poor’.”
19 August 2016
Impunity Watch is pleased to announce the publication of a new research report entitled “Transitional Justice Practice: Looking Back, Moving Forward.” Authored by Vasuki Nesiah, and produced with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the scoping study offers a critical review of the historical development of transitional justice practice up until the present, in which it has increasingly come to suffer under what could be qualified as a crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness.
19 August 2016
As part of its research efforts accompanying the process of transitional justice in Tunisia, the Transitional Justice Barometer Project, a partnership involving Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center, the Centre for Applied Human Righst at the the University of York and Impunity Watch, is publishing its third study entitled: Contrasting notions of history and collective memory in Tunisia. The teaching of recent history and the figure of Bourguiba today.
