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1. The Truth About Reconciliation

Author

Keating, Peter and Assael, Shaun

Subjects
Greensboro, North Carolina -- Investigations -- History -- Demonstrations and protests, White supremacy movements -- Investigations, African American political activists -- Crimes against, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Massacres -- History -- Casualties, Company legal issue, General interest, Political science, Social sciences, Communist Workers Party -- Demonstrations and protests
Abstract

Can America heal itself? The reckoning after the Greensboro Massacre provides some lessons. LAST OCTOBER, the city council in Greensboro, North Carolina, met for a special session. The meeting was [...]

Published
2021

2. Lost in transition; Banyan

Subjects
Nepalese Civil War, 1996-2006, Truth commissions -- Investigations, War crimes -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

Post-war justice is a nice idea. Too bad about the politics I T HAS BEEN 20 years since Sushila Chaudhary's sister was abducted from her village by Nepal's army, never [...]

Published
2022

3. Experts Criticize Report on Missing Mexican Students

Author

Kitroeff, Natalie and Lopez, Oscar

Subjects
Drug dealers -- Investigations, Disappeared persons -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Atrocities -- Investigations, Presidents -- Political activity, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

An international panel said it had found numerous inconsistencies in evidence presented by the government's truth commission on the disappearance of the 43 students in 2014. MEXICO CITY -- An [...]

Published
2022

4. Colombia's tribunal exposes how troops kidnapped and killed thousands of civilians

Subjects
Soldiers -- Investigations, Kidnapping -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Civilian casualties -- Investigations, War crimes -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- Investigations
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1103324447 BYLINE: JOHN OTIS HOST: A MARTINEZ A MARTINEZ: Colombia's Truth Commission releases its final report today. Set up in 2016 after a [...]

Published
2022

5. Decades After a 'Living Hell,' Korean Victims Win a Step Toward Redress

Author

Sang-Hun, Choe

Subjects
Human rights -- Cases, Military government -- History, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Brothers Home was supposed to help get people off the streets, but a government commission has confirmed its role in detentions and other abuses was a ''grave human rights violation [...]

Published
2022

6. The agony of silence; Truth commissions

Subjects
Algerian War, 1954-1962 -- Investigations -- Casualties, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Atrocities -- Investigations, Presidents -- Foreign policy, Company legal issue, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

France is confronting its history in Algeria. As other countries' experiences show, dealing with the past is a complex undertaking IN MARCH, BENEATH the chandeliers of the Elysée palace, four [...]

Published
2021

7. Catholic order says it will open up residential school records in Rome -- but survivor remains skeptical

Subjects
Student records -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Monasticism and religious orders -- Planning -- Records and correspondence, Company legal issue, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: CBC News A Catholic order that ran residential schools across Canada now says it will open up its archives in Rome to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation [...]

Published
2021

8. What the US can learn from Canada's commission on Indigenous residential schools

Subjects
Canada -- Cultural policy -- Education policy, United States -- Education policy -- Cultural policy, Boarding schools -- Investigations -- Cases, Mass graves -- Investigations, Canadian native peoples -- Crimes against -- Educational aspects -- Cases, Restitution -- Remedies, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

In Canada, hundreds of unmarked graves have recently been discovered on the grounds of former residential schools (https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-06-07/gruesome-boarding-school-discovery-forces-canada-reckon-its-cultural-genocide) in British Columbia and (https://www.pri.org/file/2021-06-24/hundreds-unmarked-graves-found-indigenous-school-canada) Saskatchewan that operated from 1879 through 1996. [...]

Published
2021

9. Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war

Subjects
France. Army -- Investigations -- Ethical aspects -- History, France -- History -- Military policy, Algerian War, 1954-1962 -- Casualties, Torture -- Investigations -- Ethical aspects, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Presidents -- Public relations -- Speeches, lectures and essays, Freedom fighters -- Crimes against -- Death of -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Company public relations, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

President Emmanuel Macron acknowleged on Wednesday French troops tortured and killed Algerian independence fighter Ali Boumendjel in 1957. Macron met with four grandchildren Boumendjel in an efforts to reconcile France [...]

Published
2021

10. The sting: How a Canadian is fighting back in Syria's high-stakes disinformation war

Author

MacKinnon, Mark

Subjects
Disinformation -- Political aspects, Fraud investigation -- Political aspects, Intelligence service -- Political aspects, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MARK MACKINNON, Staff LONDON -- Lead William Wiley had a problem. After years of building and maintaining an archive of evidence against Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen, he feared [...]

Published
2021

11. Retrieving bones, reviving memories: The practice of reconciliation in Spain and Latin America

Author

Stockwell, Norman

Subjects
Spain -- History, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 -- History -- Investigations, Transitional justice -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Atrocities -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Political science
Abstract

It looked like an ordinary field you might see on a construction site--clay-tinged mud puddles, broken gravel, a rolling terrain on the road to Fuente Grande. But eighty years ago, [...]

Published
2017

12. 'Subjects of change': feminist geopolitics and gendered truth-telling in Guatemala

Author

Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca, Oglesby, Elizabeth, and Marston, Sallie

Subjects
Women's rights -- Political aspects, Transitional justice -- Demographic aspects, Women civil rights workers -- Influence, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Genocide -- Investigations, Women's issues -- Political aspects, Company legal issue, Sociology and social work, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

Abstract This paper explores the often-undervalued role of gender in transitional justice mechanisms and the importance of women's struggles and agency in that regard. We focus on the efforts of [...]

Published
2012

13. Justice, eventually; Truth and reconciliation in Tunisia

Subjects
Political crimes and offenses -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

He hasn't forgotten A government unsure about its future must reckon with sins from the past AN ARABIC PROVERB holds that 'what is past is dead.' Eight years after the [...]

Published
2018

14. Justice delayed but not denied

Author

Davies, Desmond

Subjects
Gambia -- Political aspects, Abuse of power -- Investigations, Ex-presidents -- Investigations, Human rights monitoring -- Political aspects, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, Government, Business, international
Abstract

As the Commission investigating alleged rights abuses began its second session of hearings last month, Gambians were confused by the way the process has been progressing. Desmond Davies reports. After [...]

Published
2019

15. Irony of ironies

Author

Davies, Desmond

Subjects
Gambia -- Political aspects, Atrocities -- Investigations, Ex-presidents -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, Government, Business, international
Abstract

The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission set up by President Adama Barrow to investigate human rights violations during the 22-year reign of former Head of State, Yahya Jammeh began its [...]

Published
2019

16. Letter from Gambia: After 22-year regime, 'We need the truth'

Author

Courtright, James

Subjects
Repression -- History, Ex-presidents -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Crimes against humanity -- Investigations, Journalists, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: James Courtright Contributor Abstract: Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission has launched a national reckoning with former President Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule. In the bright, sterile lobby of a [...]

Published
2019

17. Compromising justice in East Timor

Author

Jolliffe, Jill

Subjects
East Timor -- Political aspects, Human rights -- Investigations, Truth commissions -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Business, Business, international, United Nations -- International relations
Abstract

The recommendations of United Nations on establishment of truth commissions, to look into human rights violations in East Timor, are presented.

Published
2006

19. Franco's Forgotten Victims

Author

Elkin, Mike

Subjects
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Casualties, War -- Casualties, Truth commissions -- Investigations, War crimes -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Mike Elkin Earlier this month, in the town of Aranda de Duero, 100 miles north of Madrid, mourners reinterred the bone remains of 129 family members found in four [...]

Published
2013

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