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United Nations
Organizations working on Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Government
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Links to Online Reports
American Refugee Committee
Amnesty International
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
Campaign for Good Governance
- Decentralization Watch Bulletin, Campaign for Good Governance, May 2006
- Report on Basic Education in Sierra Leone, Campaign for Good Governance, March 2006
- Western Area Elections Report, Campaign for Good Governance, 15 March 2006
- Report on the State of Attainment of Food Security by 2007, Campaign for Good Governance, September 2005.
- Berewa, 2007, and the Battle of the Titans, Campaign for Good Governance, 14 September 2005.
- Strategic Plan 2005-2010, Campaign for Good Governance, April 2005.
- Report on the Government's Fight Against Corruption in Sierra Leone, Campaign for Good Governance, 2004.
- Silent Victims, Young Girls at Risk, Campaign for Good Governance, December 2004 (PDF, 56 pages)
- Penal Reform Needed: A Pilot Survey of the Penal System in Freetown, Campaign for Good Governance, 2004 (PDF, 26 pages)
- Opinion Poll Report on the TRC and Special Court, Campaign for Good Governance, July 2004 (PDF, 14 pages)
The Carter Center
Coalition for International Justice
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soliders
Columbia University (in partnership with PRIDE)
Conciliation Resources
Freedom House
Global Witness
Human Rights Watch
Humanitarian Accountability Project (HAP)
International Center for Transitional Justice
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- Report on ICTJ/UNDP Project on the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, ICTJ, September 2003 (PDF, 30 pages)
- Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Special Court: A Citizen’s Handbook, National Forum for Human Rights and ICTJ, March 2003 (PDF, 58 pages)
- Ex-Combatant Views of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Court of Sierra Leone in Sierra Leone, PRIDE and ICTJ, 2002 (PDF, 72 pages)
- Exploring the Relationship Between the Special Court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, ICTJ, June 2002. (PDF 22 pages)
International Crisis Group (ICG)
International League for Human Rights
New Tactics in Human Rights (a project of the Center for Victims of Torture)
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Powerful Persuasion: Powerful Persuasion: Combat Traditional Practices that Violate Human Rights, by Emile Short, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ghana
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I’ll Walk Beside You: Providing Emotional Support for Testifiers at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by Glenda Wildschut, Desmond Tutu Leadership Academy, South Africa
No Peace Without Justice
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- Recommendations of the Government of Sierra Leone Task Force on Documentation and Conflict Mapping for the Special Court, Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice of Sierra Leone for the Special Court Task Force (with technical cooperation from NPWJ), 2002
- Report from the Lagoonda Conference on "Accountability Mechanisms for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Sierra Leone," organized by NPWJ with cooperation from the Government of Canada, European Union and Open Society Institute, February 2001
- So, what is the Special Court and what does it intend to achieve in the end? Report from the Special Court training seminars, organized by NPWJ with cooperation from the Government of Canada, European Union and Open Society Institute, March 2001
- Draft Lawyers’ Guide to the Special Court of Sierra Leone, NPWJ, March 2004 (PDF, 198 pages)
Partnership Africa-Canada (PAC)
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- Diamonds Without Maps: Liberia, the U.N., Sanctions and the Kimberly Process, PAC, June 2004. (PDF, 20 pages)
- War and Peace in Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Corruption and the Lebanese Connection, Lansana Gberie, 2002 (PDF, 28 pages)
- The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security, PAC, 2000
Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies
Physicians for Human Rights
Special Court
Rainbo Centre
Refugees International
Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Group
Transparency International
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Truth and Reconciliation Working Group
U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center
United Nations
UNICEF
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Institute for Peace
WiLDAF/FeDDAF-West Africa: Women, Law and Development in Africa
Witness
Other Miscellaneous Reports:
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Gender, Justice and Truth Commissions, PREM Gender and Development Group, ESSD Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Team, Legal and Judicial Reform Practice Group, LAC Public Sector Group, World Bank, June 2006 (PDF, 70 pages)
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Law
Sierra Leone Law
(available at the Special Court of Sierra Leone website)
Sierra Leone Policy
Special Court Documents
(available at the Special Court of Sierra Leone website)
International Law
Regional Law
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- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, OAU Doc. OAU/LEG/MIN/AFCHPR/PROT.1 rev.2 (1997), entered into force January 25, 2004.
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and People's Rights, June 9, 1998, OAU Doc. OAU/LEG/EXP/AFCHPR/PROT (III).
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, Adopted by the 2nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, Maputo, July 11 - August 13, 2003.
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/24.9/49 (1990), entered into force Nov. 29, 1999.
- Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1001 U.N.T.S. 45, entered into force June 20, 1974.
Ceasefires/Peace Agreements
(available at the Special Court of Sierra Leone website)
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Codes of Conduct, Principles and Guidelines
United Nations
Law Enforcement
Lawyers
- Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990, U.N. Doc. A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1 at 118 (1990).
Prosecutors
- Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990, U.N. Doc. A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1 at 189 (1990).
Judiciary
Detention and Imprisonment
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted Aug. 30, 1955, by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, U.N. Doc. A/CONF/611, annex I, E.S.C. res. 663C, 24 U.N. ESCOR Supp. (No. 1) at 11, U.N. Doc. E/3048 (1957), amended E.S.C. res. 2076, 62 U.N. ESCOR Supp. (No. 1) at 35, U.N. Doc. E/5988 (1977).
- Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners, G.A. res. 45/111, annex, 45 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49A) at 200, U.N. Doc. A/45/49 (1990).
- Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, G.A. res. 43/173, annex, 43 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 298, U.N. Doc. A/43/49 (1988).
- United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (The Tokyo Rules), G.A. res. 45/110, annex, 45 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49A) at 197, U.N. Doc. A/45/49 (1990).
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