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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLimited justice for Syria on the horizon
As the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAttacks on Tunisia’s transitional justice process threaten women’s advancement
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe 2016 transition into peace in Colombia
2016 will probably be considered a lesson for the history of peace negotiations. We edited in an eBook a selection...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s struggle against corruption: time to fight, not forgive
A new economic reconciliation law protects clientelist structures in Tunisia and replaces the process of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: transitional justice in the crosshairs
A proposed 'economic reconciliation' law will provide impunity for corruption and economic crimes, threatening the...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat role for a truth commission in Colombia?
While a positive step in negotiations between warring parties, what are the limits of uncovering the dark truths of...
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Published in: openSecurityAziz’s notebook: transmitting the memory of violence
A granddaughter discovers her grandfather's notebook years after the political massacres that stole her mother and...
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Published in: openSecurityThe wounds of Baghdad's Frankenstein
Ahmed al-Sa'dawi's novel, rather than reconciling the complexities of violence in Iraq, seeks to exorcise the demons...
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Published in: openSecurityEl Salvador’s gang truce: a lost opportunity?
The truce declared in 2012 may have been imperfect and controversial but positive lessons must be learned amid the...
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Published in: openSecuritySearching for justice: the Tokyo Women’s Tribunal
Justice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom punishment to acknowledgment: tribunals of opinion in contexts of impunity
Civil society tribunals, though unofficial, provide new spaces that fundamentally contest the state and its hold...
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Published in: openSecurityStates of impunity
openSecurity's new series explores how the violence of state crimes endures. How and when does the fight against...
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Published in: openSecurityOverlooked and invisible: the women of enforced disappearances
The overwhelming majority of the victims of enforced disappearances are men. What happens to the women left behind?
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Published in: openSecurityMilitary immunity: Colombia's moment of choice
Will Colombia force its military to face up to its past human rights abuses?
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Published in: openSecurityDominic Ongwen and the slow-grinding wheels of the International Criminal Court
He may not be a household name but his eventual trial at the ICC may highlight the long-forgotten victims of the...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia
There was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s parliament and the politicisation of the police
The police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...
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Published in: openSecurityCivilian justice trumps military impunity in Myanmar
The rare conviction of a soldier in civilian court shows how, case by case, the criminal justice system is slowly...
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Published in: openSecurity“There was so much fear”
The outworking of the eight-year-old peace agreement in Nepal has embraced the government and its Maoist opponents....
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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Cristian Labbé breathes new life into Chile's human rights struggle
New charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for...