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Outreach Strategies in International and Hybrid Courts: Report of the ICTJ-ECCC Workshop

This document presents a non‐exhaustive summary of some of the topics discussed at a workshop on outreach organized by the ICTJ in collaboration with the ECCC from March 3-5, 2010. It first provides a general overview of the ECCC functions and outreach activities. Thereafter, it highl...

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Clara Ramirez-Barat and Maya Karwande

Research Paper / Report

Transitional Justice and DDR: The Case of Cambodia (Case study)

Demobilization was first initiated in Cambodia in 1992, but there have been few attempts to link disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) processes to transitional justice measures. The government's overriding consideration has been the preservation of stability, narrowly i...

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Peter Bartu and Neil Wilford

Research Case Study

Breathing Life into the New Constitution: A new constitutional approach to law and police in Kenya: lessons from South Africa

Building a constitutional state and pursuing social change is best approached by looking at prior successes. Here is a comparison between the Kenyan and South African constitutions and an outline of how constitutional litigation unfolded in South Africa.

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ICTJ; Howard Varney

Briefing Paper

South Africa: Constitutional Court Upholds Right to Express the Truth

CAPE TOWN, April 8, 2011 —In a landmark judgment handed down today the Constitutional Court upheld the rights of victims of apartheid era abuses, as well as the media and public, to speak the truth about crimes amnestied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The court held that truth...

04/08/11
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