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Research project "Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice" (SNF / University of Geneva / PI Sevane Garibian)

The research project "Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice" is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Sévane Garibian. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva.

01/11/2022

After an initial 4-years period and a 2-years extension, our interdisciplinary research project comes to an end. We would like to thank our funder, SNF FNS SNSF, our host Université de Genève, and our swiss and international partners, including Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights , International Committee of the Red Cross , and TRIAL International.

If you want to hear about the next stages of our members’ research on , follow our researchers on Twitter/Facebook or LinkedIn: Sévane Garibian, Zahira Araguete, Tafadzwa Christmas, Camille Montavon, Adriana Sdr, and Marion Vironda Dubray.

This research project addresses the following question : if in the framework of transitional justice the right to truth constitutes the first pillar of the “fight against impunity” for mass crimes, and supposes a state obligation to investigate, what meaning and what function does it have in con...

31/10/2022

charges police officers with over 2017 violence via

In a landmark decision, Kenyan prosecutors said on Friday they would charge police officers with crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on post-election protests in 2017. The charges cover r**e, murder and torture and include the case of a six-month-old baby girl whose death became a symbol...

28/10/2022

A year and a half after his final acquittal by the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he was tried for crimes against humanity, Charles Blé Goudé will return to Côte d'Ivoire on November 26 via

L’ancien ministre de Laurent Gbagbo, accusé de crimes contre l’humanité, a été acquitté il y a un an et demi par la Cour pénale internationale. Après de longues négociations avec Alassane Ouattara, il a décidé de revenir à Abidjan le 26 novembre. – Jeune Afrique

27/10/2022

: even though they were not yet born when the 1994 occurred, many Rwandans under the age of 30 suffer from trauma, as a result of the suffering of their parents who survived the genocide via

« L’Afrique en thérapie » (7). De nombreux Rwandais de moins de 30 ans souffrent d’un traumatisme dit « transgénérationnel » ou « indirect » : ils présentent des séquelles psychologiques liées au génocide.

26/10/2022

: A collective of artists is demanding that the remains of seven Congolese Pygmies, unearthed by the Geneva doctor Boris Adé in the 1950s, and now kept at the University of Geneva, be returned to the Congo for a dignified burial via

Dans «Le Retour des fantômes», un collectif d’artistes réclame que les corps, déterrées par le médecin genevois Boris Adé dans les années 50, retournent au Congo pour y être inhumés dignement.

25/10/2022

Coding Justice? The Tradeoffs of Using Technology for Documenting Crimes in via

[Raquel Vazquez Llorente is the Head of Law and Policy, Technology Threats & Opportunities, at WITNESS. Wendy Betts is the Executive Director of eyeWitness, initiated by the International Bar A…

24/10/2022

, a former Dutch colony, has asked the to return eight works of art and natural history collections from several Dutch museums, including the fossil remains of the Java Man, the first homo erectus ever unearthed, via

Cette demande concerne huit œuvres d’art et des collections d’histoire naturelle.

21/10/2022

: Top Former Military Officers Arrested for 1982 Murder of Four Dutch Journalists via

General Guillermo García, the minister of defense and strongman of the Salvadoran Army in the early 1980s, has been detained for his alleged responsibility in the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, members of the judicial branch involved in the case and two relatives of the victims confirmed...

20/10/2022

: A Serb man faces extradition from after being arrested for in relation to his alleged involvement in killing 33 people in the Kosovo town of Peja/Pec during the war in 1999 via

A Serb man faces extradition from Hungary after being arrested in Budapest for his alleged involvement in killing 33 people in the Kosovo town of Peja/Pec during the war in 1999.

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