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ICTJ In Focus

Issue 16March 2012

In Focus

U.S. Pressure Needed to End

Impunity in the Congo

For the millions of victims of the

countrys successive wars, Lubanga is

just one of many who are responsible

for crimes on an astonishing scale.

Congolese authorities must end the

widespread impunity enjoyed by those

who remain in positions of power in the government and military

or violence and instability are likely to continue for years to come.

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Memory Reconstructs Society and Reestablishes Rights

In a simple house made of wood and straw and smelling of earth, women,

girls, and the occasional man narrate, sometimes laughing and other times

crying, the stories of how their life used to be before being forcibly displaced

to San Juan Nepomuceno. This is one of the many local memory initiatives

taking place throughout Colombia today.

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Spain Declares Itself Powerless

The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled the judiciary has no place

investigating the deaths and disappearances of the Franco era. The verdict

is a disappointment for the victims of Francoism and confirms Spain remains

unwilling to deliver justice for the crimes of the past, writes Eduardo

Gonzlez, director of ICTJ's Truth and Memory program

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What Role for Development in the Pursuit of Justice?

In the latest ICTJ podcast, Heidy Rombouts, Kenya project leader with the

Dutch development agency GIZ, discusses how understanding the links

between development, security, and transitional justice will help inform and

strengthen policies for implementing complementarity on the ground.

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Armed with the Right to Truth, Families of the Missing Lobby to Learn

Their Fate

Lebanon has yet to seriously address the issue of thousands of people who

went missing or were forcibly disappeared during the countrys civil war. ICTJ

spoke with Lebanese activists to discuss a recent initiative taken by thefamilies of the missing and civil society organizations to create a draft law on

the missing.

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Publications

From Relief to Reparations:Listening to the Voices of

Victims

Five years since the end of Nepal's

brutal civil war, victims are losing

patience waiting for truth, justice, and

reparation. Last year ICTJ completed a

six month research project to analyze

the effects of the the government's

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Interim Relief Program and determine the steps still required for

Nepal to fulfill its obligation to provide reparations to victims. The

findings have been published in a report titled From Relief to

Reparations: Listening to the Voices of Victims.

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