The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is not just a human rights watchdog but also a mechanism with a supervisory role ...

Transitional justice is a process utilized in many countries around the world. It offers a systematic range of approaches available to societies attempting to deal with difficult, painful pasts.

Transitional justice is a variety of processes and strategies where a society comes to terms with mass atrocity crimes that happened in the past, usually during armed con fl ict or period of ...

Transitional justice is both a legal and philosophical theory and a global practice that aims to redress wrongdoing, past and present, in order to vindicate victims, hold perpetrators to account, and ...

Uribe’s critics argued that the Justice and Peace Law — and, by association, transitional justice — was a euphemism for impunity for the paramilitaries. They were also concerned that the law ...

“Transitional Justice puts survivors and victims at the heart of the process. It commits to pursuing justice through truth. It aims to achieve not only individual justice, but a wider societal ...

Even as Nepal has made progress in amending the transitional justice Act since the last United Nations Universal Periodic ...

Transitional justice mechanisms are typically short-term efforts with limited mandates. As such, they cannot grasp the complex ways in which unjust and violent pasts affect the present.

The transitional justice efforts have sent the wrong message. It has made the criminals believe they can commit crimes as they please, knowing that they will be prosecuted by a system that does not ...

He cited transitional justice as a means of dealing with the problem. Transitional justice, he said, was a “vital agenda for our country … to have a truly guaranteed independent judicial system in ...