Victim Voices

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...

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...

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...

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...

Faced with the criticism and disappointment that greeted the release of its much-awaited final report last week after it became apparent that the contents would not be revealed, The Gambia’s...

Betrayed and disappointed. These two words aptly describe the sentiments of the victims of human rights violations in The Gambia who had hoped that the government of President Adama Barrow...

A bill that proposes to widen the scope of criminalised same-sex relationships and enhance penalties in Ghana has won support among proponents of Christian, traditional, and cultural values, while at...