ICTJ In Focus 69

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June 2017

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“You Don’t Forget Your Torturers”: Wachira Waheire’s 30-Year Quest for Justice in Kenya “You Don’t Forget Your Torturers”: Wachira Waheire’s 30-Year Quest for Justice in KenyaIn 1986, Wachira Waheire was whisked off the street, taken to Kenya’s most infamous torture chamber, and sentenced to four years in prison. Over the next 30 years, his quest for justice led him to meetings with his torturers to courtroom showdowns with the country’s Attorney General. Discover his ongoing struggle for truth, acknowledgement, and reparations alongside all survivors of abuse in Kenya.

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“Left Behind”: Young Photographers Capture Marginalization in Tunisia “Left Behind”: Young Photographers Capture Marginalization in TunisiaOngoing economic and social inequality, a legacy of the dictatorship, affects Tunisians across generations, but has particularly pronounced impacts on young people. ICTJ worked with four young photographers to confront the consequences of marginalization and explore its impacts on Tunisian youth. Their four photo galleries comprise the exhibition “Marginalization in Tunisia: Images of an Invisible Repression.”

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The Bumpy Road to Peace and Accountability: Transitional Justice in the African Great Lakes Region The Bumpy Road to Peace and Accountability: Transitional Justice in the African Great Lakes RegionIn Africa’s Great Lakes region, countries face common challenges like bad governance, inequitable distribution of natural resources, and ethnic divisions. As nations like Burundi, Central African Republic and South Sudan work towards peacebuilding and accountability, they should learn from what has worked and what has not in neighboring countries, writes Sarah Kihika Kasande, ICTJ’s Head of Office in Uganda.

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Publications

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Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies What hope is there for justice for victims of atrocities in profoundly fractured societies, where systems of government have broken down and social and political divisions run deep? What is the role of transitional justice in forging peace in countries like Colombia, after decades of conflict? Or in countries like Tunisia, after years of repression and corrosive corruption?

The Case for Action on Transitional Justice and DisplacementAs the refugee crisis deepens, does action on transitional justice issues have to wait for peace? A new paper explores what sort of consultation and documentation work can be done now, while conflict is ongoing, to shape outcomes moving forward.

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