Face-to-face with victims of atrocity crimes: Confronting impact of war on ordinary people

Uganda’s war victims can smile again

October 14, 2022

During the Joint Monitoring Mission to Uganda organised by the Embassy of Ireland in The Hague and the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV), with the assistance of the Embassy of...

Look, I’m happy: Tales of resilience, hope, and survival

Minou Tavarez Mirabal, the Chairperson of the Board of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV), and Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, the President of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), pose for a photo with the beneficiaries of the TFV project in northern Uganda during the Joint Monitoring Visit in September, 2022. Photo credit: @Embassy of Ireland in The Netherlands, Twitter account

byJanet Sankale

October 4, 2022

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By Janet Sankale in Gulu, Uganda During the Joint Monitoring Mission to Uganda organised by the Embassy of Ireland in The Hague, and the Trust Fund for Victims, with the assistance...

The guns are silenced, but the wounds are still with us

From left: Charity of Health Right International, Charles Ocaya, and Jimmy Otim, Field Outreach Assistant, International Criminal Court, Uganda, during a surgical camp at Anaka General Hospital. Mr Ocaya, a victim of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency in northern Uganda, was waiting for surgery.

byJanet Sankale

September 26, 2022

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Journalists For Justice participated in the joint monitoring visit organised by the Embassy of Ireland in The Hague, and the Trust Fund for Victims, with the assistance of the Embassy of...

A peek into history as Kenya remembers brave mothers and freedom fighters

Some of the former political prisoners pose for a photo with human rights defenders and representatives of civil society organisations in Nairobi, Kenya, to mark the 30th anniversary of the protest staged by their mothers at Uhuru Park in 1992.

byJanet Sankale

August 3, 2022

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Kenya featured frequently in international news in the 1990s because of the fight for freedom and democracy under the dictatorial regime of the ruling independence political party, Kanu. However, the...

Victims fund project raises questions among CSOs in Kenya

Jacqueline Mutere, Director of Grace Agenda: She asked why the Trust Fund for Victims had excluded from its assistance programme some areas that were affected by the 2007/2008 post-election violence.

byJanet Sankale

July 15, 2022

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Controversy continued to stalk the Trust Fund for Victims’ proposed assistance for a section of the victims and survivors of the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya. The bone of contention...

How we’ll work with Kenyan victims: TFV explains assistance programme

Kenyan families displaced by the 2007/2008 post-election violence queue at Shalom City, a camp for internally displaced persons located outside Naivasha town in the Rift Valley region. (Photo: Mothers Fighting For Others/Flickr)

byJanet Sankale

July 15, 2022

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Scott Bartell More than 14 years after Kenya suffered post-election violence that followed the December 2007 polls, and which brought several Kenyans before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the plight...

After euphoria of state white paper, victims now demand action on Jammeh

Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. Victims and survivors of his brutal regime have called for his prosecution. Photo Credit: @The Standard Newspaper (The Gambia)

byJanet Sankaleand1 others

June 18, 2022

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The campaign to hold to account former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh and others adversely mentioned by the country’s truth commission is gathering pace, with human rights defenders and victims’ organisations...

Hope at last for Kenyan victims, but is TFV’s planned support enough?

Elizabeth Atieno, a survivor of the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya and also an advocate against sexual violence, speaks in Nairobi during a function to mark the seventh International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict in June 2021. Photo Credit: Twitter

byJanet Sankale

May 11, 2022

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Too little, too late. That is Jacqueline Mutere’s assessment of the Trust Fund for Victims’ proposed assistance for victims of the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya. “It should have been...

With joy and tears, they welcomed truth commission’s verdict

Zainab, the sister of Lt Lowe who disappeared after being accused of plotting to overthrow Yahya Jammeh in 2006, speaking during the release of the TRRC report to the public on December 24,2021.

bySanna Camara

January 10, 2022

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Zainab Lowe covered her face with her hands and cried. She could not help but weep inconsolably as she listened to Attorney General and Minister of Justice Dawda A. Jallow...

Human rights groups join growing call for prosecution of Yahya Jammeh

The TRRC recommends the prosecution of Yahya Jammeh and several senior officials in his administration for their role in committing rape and other forms of SGBV.

byJanet Sankale

December 10, 2021

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By Janet Sankale janet.sankale@jfjustice.net Several experts have joined human rights groups urging The Gambia to prosecute crimes committed under the rule of former president Yahya Jammeh. A panel discussion organised...

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