The Wayamo Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Rule of Law Programme for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa have launched an online resource platform on the fight against impunity in West Africa called “Justice in West Africa”. As part of this project, experts from West Africa were interviewed on debates relating to current and past efforts in the prosecution of international crimes in the region.
Will there be justice, national rehabilitation, reconciliation and healing in Liberia ?
Hassan Bility is the Executive Director of the Global Justice Research Project in Liberia. He discusses the importance and impact of the criminal trials in European courts/USA against suspected perpetrators of crimes in the Liberian civil wars. These trials are the result of a collaboration between his organisation and foreign jurisdictions. Hassan Bility also shares his thoughts on some of the key steps to achieve justice and accountability in Liberia, and whether the extraordinary criminal court will ever see the light of day in Liberia. The Executive Director of GJRP also talks about the challenges that he faces as a human rights defender in Liberia.
La Fondation Wayamo et le Programme pour la Promotion de l’Etat de droit de la Fondation Konrad Adenauer ont lancé une plateforme de ressources en ligne sur la lutte contre l’impunité en Afrique de l’Ouest intitulée « Justice en Afrique de l’Ouest pour les crimes internationaux ». Dans le cadre de ce projet, des experts d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont été interviewés sur les débats relatifs aux efforts actuels et passés, dans le domaine de la poursuite des crimes internationaux dans la région.
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