The signs that a (truth) commission may end in failure arewhen it fails to take any conflict of interest and impartiality seriously. Similarly, if seemingly biased appointments to the Commission are greeted with suspicion by some fair-minded victims, victims’ families, and (perceived/alleged) perpetrators of wrongdoing, but ignored by the[Read More…]
Year: 2018
IHRDA, ANDDH Organize Refresher Course For Niger Magistrates
The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), in collaboration with Association Nigérienne de Défense des Droits de L’Homme (ANDDH), is organizing a refresher course from 13-14 August 2018 for twenty-five Magistrates in Niger, with focus on the application of international human rights law in judicial practice. The[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: The anarchist In Me; For Revolutionaries Only…. [Not for you if you are not one]
I wish every people in the world include a provision like this in their constitutions: “It shall be the right of the people, individually or in concert with others, to change or overthrow a government, through every available legitimate means, if that government subjects the people to a systematic and[Read More…]