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Exhumations in Gambia - Pieces of cloth unearthed from a grave at Yundum military camp
24 August 2023 by Mariam Sankanu
Gambia: why after four years identity of the exhumed remains unknown? In four years since the mediatized exhumation of seven bodies in a military camp near Banjul, neither the Truth and Reconciliation commission nor any institution in The Gambia have done anything to identify them. Civil society rem [...]
Enforced disappearances in The Gambia - Photos of people who disappeared during Yahya Jammeh's reign.
3 July 2023 by Mariam Sankanu
The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on enforced disappearances. Four cases involving five indi [...]
Transitional justice in The Gambia - President Adama Barrow has published a plan to implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission.
1 June 2023 by Mariam Sankanu
Is The Gambia a step closer to moving on with trials and reparations? On May 12, the Gambian president Adama Barrow has issued an implementation plan of the 2021 recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. He has announced a 9-million euro pledge by the European Union. A [...]
Justice for Aboriginal people in Australia - Shane Patton, Victoria's Chief Commissioner, admits the injustices still faced by Indigenous Peoples.
16 May 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Commission: “It takes the death of an Aboriginal” to reform laws In the fortnight to Monday May 15, senior representatives of law, prisons and police institutions appeared before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, to face questioning over their responsibility in perpetuating the systemic injustic [...]
Aboriginal children in Australia - Yoorrook Commission reveals alarming colonization figures
2 May 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system” In Australia’s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to ad [...]
Colonization - Belgium - Congo
24 March 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: "This issue will come back and demand to be tackled” At the end of 2022, a special parliamentary commission meant to shed light on the Belgian colonial period ended in bitter failure. What do representatives of the mainly Congolese and Burundian diasporas who participated in this co [...]
Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD), is being prosecuted for
23 March 2023 by Olfa Belhassine
In Tunisia, the "falsified" report that threatens transitional justice Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, is accused of having received bribes to make additions to the commission’s final report. At the heart of the controversy is the Franco-Tunisian Bank [...]
Indigenous peoples of Norway - Sami activists demonstrate in Oslo
10 March 2023 by Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Astri Dankertsen
Truth and reconciliation in Norway amidst a crisis of trust At a hearing on March 6 the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was directly caught in the middle of a crisis between the state and Indigenous peoples and national minorities. A week before intense protests by the [...]
Inscription on a portal (in Arabic and French):
9 March 2023 by Olfa Belhassine
Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future" Adel Maizi chaired the “memory committee” at Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the International Council on Archives, where he is an expert on archives and human rights. Maizi explains how [...]
Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage
6 March 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system The Yoorrook Truth Commission, in Victoria state, southeast Australia, restarted on Wednesday March 1 with a third round of hearings centred on truth-telling about the removal of the Aboriginal children from their families and chi [...]
Women whose relatives have been victims of violence in the Central African Republic
7 February 2023 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Central African Republic: Truth Commission struggles to get off the ground The Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission presented its activity report to the Central African Republic’s President on December 30, 2022, more than 18 months after it was launched. But the brief account of its a [...]
Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.
3 February 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission At the national level, Australia has struggled to hold a truth, reconciliation and reparations process on the violence committed against Indigenous peoples. The state of Victoria, in South-East Australia, wants to reverse this cou [...]
Belgian Colonial Past - Black and white photo in which King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium are sitting on armchairs carried by Congolese in traditional dress.
19 January 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims The commission on Belgium's colonial past was a pioneer in Europe, but it collapsed at the finish line at the end of December, stripped of all its well formulated recommendations. After two and a half years of looking into the pas [...]
An installation in memory of the victims of the La Gabarra massacre in Colombia: a colorful spiral made of candles, flowers and sheets of paper on which the names of the victims have been written.
12 December 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to Many victims in Colombia feel that the FARC are still reluctant to fully own up to many of their atrocities. Especially when it comes to crimes committed against leftist politicians and peasants. The 1986 murder of former Congress [...]
Gambian President Adama Barrow sits in a chair at an international diplomatic event. In the foreground: a small flag of Gambia.
30 September 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: hope for justice fades 9 months after the Truth Commission report Victims and rights activists have raised concerns about the lack of Gambian government’s implementation plan of the 2021 Truth Commission’s recommendations. The vetting process is largely incomplete; the strategy for trials is unk [...]
Ensa Badgie prepares to testify (book in hand) at a Gambia Truth Commission (TRCC) hearing, next to an employee
5 September 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations Activists are voicing the alarm. After its inquiry, the Gambia Truth Commission recommended that some 90 officials, largely in the security sector, be banned from public office or prosecuted. The government has committed itse [...]
President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.
1 September 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes After the last four months major achievements in Colombia in dealing with the past crimes of the military, the new left-wing government now has to deal with the Armed Forces' and defence sector's reluctance to see extrajudici [...]
Father Francisco de Roux reads the report in Bogota.
27 July 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Truth Commission’s message to Colombia On 28 June, Colombia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its final report on that country’s 60-year armed conflict. Its central message, gathered in a nearly 900-page chapter on findings and recommendations, focuses les [...]
Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report
26 May 2022 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice It is a milestone for the future of The Gambia. On Wednesday 25 May, the government, after five months of deliberation, finally said how it intends to implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission. Justice Minister Dawda J [...]
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