Media Coverage

Browse our curated coverage of international news related to transitional justice.

Germany’s president on November 1 apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German rule, and vowed to seek answers to questions about that era that leave Tanzanians no peace. President Frank-Walter...
Russia bombards 100 settlements within 24 hours as top Ukrainian commander warns war has become deadlocked. Russia has carried out its biggest artillery attack so far this year, Ukraine has said, as Kyiv’s top general admitted the war had reached a deadlock, with little prospect that his troops...
A Ukrainian human rights organization has collected evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian Wagner Group. Lawyers say the mercenary commanders must be held to account. Torture and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, targeted attacks on civilians, and occupying critical...
Dossiers of evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine have been presented to German federal prosecutors at the start of a campaign to use the principle of universal jurisdiction to bring war criminals to justice. The cases were filed on Thursday morning by the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ)...
The United Nations on Monday expressed concern over the "atmosphere of mutual suspicion" in Kosovo, calling for "critical" de-escalatory measures between it and Serbia. Tensions between Pristina and Belgrade have been heightened since a police officer was killed last month in an ambush in Kosovo's...
Politicians, campaigners, and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations (APPG-AR), a group of cross-party MPs, is...
Mahsa Amini—a Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody last year—and the Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement she inspired in Iran have been awarded the 2023 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Speaking at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday, European Parliament...
Senior UK special forces officers had suspicions of a "deliberate policy" of murder by the Special Air Service (SAS) in Afghanistan but hid evidence, an inquiry heard. In some cases, they did nothing and in others "sought to prevent adequate investigation," a lawyer for families of those killed said...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he's willing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of the year. "We must move steadily towards peace," Pashinyan said during an address to the European Parliament on October 17. "To do this, political will is necessary, and I have that...
Italy’s top criminal court has confirmed the extradition of an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during its last military dictatorship, rejecting the priest’s appeal, a lawyer said Sunday. Arturo Salerni—who represented Argentina in the case—told The Associated...