• Report:

    On Solid Ground

    This report of the Working Group on Transitional Justice and SDG16+ articulates the contributions of transitional justice to the SDGs, particularly SDG 16 on peace, justice, and inclusion, but also related goals on gender and inequality. 

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    On Solid Ground
  • Guide:

    Our Future, Our Justice: Young People Taking Action

    This guide is designed to engage young people who are interested in or are working on transitional justice issues in their communities.

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    Our Future, Our Justice: Young People Taking Action
  • Report:

    Guiding and Protecting Prosecutors

    This report presents a comparative overview of prosecution guidelines from around the world in "ordinary" times and in the context of post-conflict transitions.

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    Guiding and Protecting Prosecutors
  • Video:

    A Conversation with Former President Juan Manuel Santos

    This February, ICTJ and CHRGJ welcomed former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos for a conversation on the role of transitional justice in peace negotiations.

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    A Conversation with Former President Juan Manuel Santos

  • 2019 Year in Review

    Our accomplishments last year reflect our fundamental commitment to victims and civil society and demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach and its potential to advance justice, accountability, and reform.

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    2019 Year in Review

  • Gender and Transitional Justice: A Training Module Series

    This curriculum is intended to broaden the knowledge of civil society groups and other practitioners about how to incorporate a gender-sensitive approach into the design and implementation of transitional justice programs.

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    Gender and Transitional Justice: A Training Module Series

In Focus

ICTJ cover image for report on Syria Detainees

Gone Without a Trace: Syria’s Detained, Abducted, and Forcibly Disappeared

5/28/2020

This policy paper examines the dark reality of detentions in Syria, its impact on those who are detained and their families, and recommends a set of urgent steps that should be taken to assist families in obtaining information about the whereabouts of their loved ones, gaining access to them, and achieving their prompt release.

Date published: 
Thu, 05/28/2020 - 12:55

New Report: "Gone Without A Trace" Examines the Dark Reality of Detentions in Syria

5/21/2020

New York, May 29, 2020 — Time is of the essence for breaking the deadlock over the release of detainees, abductees, and the forcibly disappeared in Syria, says a policy paper released today by ICTJ and the New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC). Coordinated action by the Syrian regime and other parties to the conflict, as well as the international community, must begin now, particularly as the spread of the coronavirus accelerates in Syria. The consequences of delay and a failure to act — for the detainees and their families — are likely to be calamitous.

Special Report on COVID-19: Keeping Justice in Sight

5/19/2020

Sparing almost no corner of the world from its wrath, the COVID-19 pandemic has now spread to every country. In an effort to slow the contagion, governments in most countries have been taking drastic measures requiring all residents other than essential workers to confine themselves in their homes, and shutting down vast sectors of their economies. The impact has been crushing. COVID-19 has profoundly affected every country where ICTJ currently works: Armenia, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Uganda. We recently caught up with ICTJ’s heads of country programs to learn more about the impact the pandemic is having on transitional justice and society more broadly.

As Pandemic Looms, Action Is Needed to Protect Syria’s Vulnerable Prison Population

Sibley Hawkins
Programs Expert

4/22/2020

For the past few months, ICTJ, along with our partners at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, has been working on a comprehensive new policy paper on the situation of the many thousands of Syrians detained somewhere in the country’s vast network of prisons. The depravity that goes on inside these detention sites is already so appalling that it would have been hard to imagine when we started the project that the situation for the prisoners could get any worse. And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, upending all of our preconceptions, and our lives, in ways none of us ever expected.

Justice in the Era of COVID-19: Our Global Responsibility

Fernando Travesí
Executive Director

3/27/2020

Today, we are facing a global public health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Only time will tell the devastating toll that COVID-19 will exact on human life. The breakneck speed at which the virus is spreading does not give us reason for optimism in the near future. We at ICTJ fully grasp the gravity of the situation, and we take our responsibility for the health and safety of our staff, partners, and communities where we work seriously.