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Submission to Committee A of the National Parliament on the Draft Law Establishing the Institute for Memory

Providing the Minister for Social Solidarity with the unfettered discretion to dismiss and appoint members of the institute’s Governing Board renders the institute vulnerable to politicization and undermines the institute’s ‘technical, administrative and financial autonomy.

07/01/10

ICTJ

Briefing Paper

Impunity in Timor-Leste: Can the Serious Crimes Investigation Team Make a Difference?

In August 2006 the United Nations Security Council mandated the establishment of the Serious Crimes Investigation Team (SCIT) as an extension of the previous “serious crimes” process, under the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Early in 2008, the team began assisting the c...

06/01/10

ICTJ

Report

Criminal Justice for Criminal Policy: Prosecuting Abuses of Detainees in U.S. Counterterrorism Operations

The report documents that practices that included slamming detainees into walls, extended sleep deprivation, suspending them by the arms, forced nudity, threats, prolonged shackling in uncomfortable positions and disrespect of the Qur'an, were the result of officially sanctioned polic...

11/01/09

ICTJ; Carolyn Patty Blum, Lisa Magarrell, Marieke Wierda

Report