Victim Voices

Two wells, two memorials, a total of 26 victims and claimants each receiving sums of 200,000 CFA (around 300 euros) to 1 million CFA (around 1,500 euros): this is the...

Tears rolled down his cheeks as he spoke. He appeared to be in great agony. “A man took me to another room filled with water up to my waist and...

“Not many people think about victims, but they think about the ICC, Dominic Ongwen, Joseph Kony, these warlords. They think about people who have committed these terrible crimes but not...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...