International Center for Transitional Justice

The International Center for Transitional Justice works to redress and prevent the most severe violations of human rights by confronting legacies of mass abuse. ICTJ seeks holistic solutions to promote accountability and create just and peaceful societies.

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September 27, 2010 |

Negotiating Justice: The Challenge of Justice and Accountability in Peace Negotiations

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Cambodia: First Verdict A Victory But Some Victims Left Disappointed

NEW YORK/JAKARTA July 26, 2010—The verdict in the first trial of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is an important but partial victory for victims of the Khmer Rouge regime and for the court itself, said the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) today...

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Fighting Past Impunity in Bangladesh: A National Tribunal for the Crimes of 1971

Bangladesh has taken steps to seek redress for mass atrocities committed during their “Liberation War” in 1971 that split West and East Pakistan into modern Pakistan and Bangladesh...

Q&A: ICC Arrest Warrant Charging Genocide Issued for President al-Bashir

On July 12, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for the crime of genocide. ICTJ provides information and background on this second warrant, including why genocide charges were not included in the first arrest warrant and what impact this may have on the situation in Darfur...

Filipina "Comfort Women" Deserve Political Support

The Philippines government should support renewed efforts by former sexual slaves to seek reparations and an official apology from Japan, ICTJ said today. Before and during World War II, the Japanese military government forced an estimated 200,000 women to provide Japanese soldiers with sexual services. On July 19 former Filipina "comfort women" asked the Philippine Supreme Court to reconsider an earlier decision against compelling the government to seek reparations from Japan on their behalf...

Enemies of the People

Enemies of the People, a documentary by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, is playing at the New York City Quad Cinema July 30 - August 5, and the Beverly Hills Laemmle's Music Hall 3 August 6 - 12. Winner of a dozen top documentary festival awards, this film exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s...

That Someone Guilty Be Punished

ICTJ and the Open Society Justice Initiative present That Someone Guilty Be Punished, a report written by Professor Diane F. Orentlicher on the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on victims and survivors of the conflict in the 1990s. This publication looks at the effects and lessons of the court which marked the beginning of a new era of international justice...

Are Truth Commissions a new Paradigm for Justice?

ICTJ, in partnership with the Barcelona International Peace Resource Center, and under the auspices of the City Council of Barcelona, is pleased to announce its second Intensive Course on Truth-Seeking and Transitional Justice: a one-week academic opportunity, September 27 – October 2, to learn and reflect about the phenomenon of the creation of truth commissions as a new instrument of justice around the world...