On May 17, Syria’s transitional authorities announced presidential decrees establishing two new government bodies: the Transitional Justice Commission and the National Commission for the Missing.

Syria on Saturday announced the formation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice, more than five months after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

In spite of popular vote, the Santos administration proceeded to create the JEP (Justicia Especial para la Paz, or the Special Jurisdiction for Peace) to prosecute the most serious crimes of the ...

The two commissions – one to investigate the fate of tens of thousands missing under Bashar al-Assad's rule, and another to pursue transitional justice – will aim to reckon with the brutal ...

Pasipanodya, T. (2008) “A Deeper Justice: Economic and Social Justice as Transitional Justice in Nepal”, The International Journal of Transitional Justice 2(3): 378–397. Crossref Robins, S. (2011) ...

Additionally, the transitional justice process should be executed in a way that overcomes the societal and cultural obstacles that undermine women’s meaningful engagement. This entails ensuring that ...

Created by a 2013 law on transitional justice, the Truth and Dignity Commission is an independent, state-funded body responsible for revealing human rights violations committed between 1955 and 2013.

Syria on Saturday announced the formation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice, more than five months after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar ...

Syria's grinding 13-year civil war has left hundreds of thousands of people, most of them civilians, dead and more than 100,000 people missing, according to United Nations estimates and human ...

Syria forms transitional justice, missing persons commissions. By Reuters. May 18, 2025 7:49 AM UTC Updated May 18, 2025. Item 1 of 2 Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during ...

Syria on Saturday announced the formation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice, more than five months after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.