Sentences with phrase «truth commission»

By 1990, the idea of truth commissions was well known internationally.

Two weeks ago the Greek Parliament released a report by its Debt Truth Commission explaining why Greece's debt to the IMF, ECB and European Council was legally «odious.»

Latin American countries ranging from Guatemala to Argentina had established truth commissions to investigate atrocities, discover the whereabouts of disappeared individuals, and ensure that the crimes be remembered.

In 2011 he established the agency Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary team of investigators that provides advanced architectural and media evidence to civil society groups such as truth commissions, courts and human rights reports.

In October 2003 Chile became the first Latin American nation to establish a second truth commission, The first, the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as the Rettig Commission), investigated the cases of» the dead and disappeared, which numbered almost 4,000, and provided compensation for their families, Now the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners has heard for the first time from the survivors of Pinochet's repression, estimated at some 35,000 people.

According to a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the PDP said the denial by President Muhammadu Buhari on his alleged benefiting from funds relating to the arms deal scandal, and the consequent controversy trailing it underscores the need for a more neutral and transparent body like an independent National Truth Commission to examine all issues relating to handling of security votes and campaign funding without interferences from the government.

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The court - ordered truth commission was unique in the world, he said: the first to look at what happens to children if they are removed and what happens to the parents and their trauma.

Three weeks ago the Greek Parliament issued a report by its Debt Truth Commission.

It allows them to develop a critical approach to the relationship between other accountability mechanisms in conflict / post-conflict settings, such as truth commissions, hybrid tribunals and amnesties.

On Friday, National Assembly president Gustavo Porras announced the creation of a truth commission to look into the deaths and what happened in the protests and clashes, which were seen by Nicaraguan analysts and historians as the most violent and bloody since the Somoza dictatorship.

America, too, needs a truth commission to give the populace a full accounting of our interventions in Latin America and elsewhere.

During the debate Maxwell called for a truth commission on U.S. involvement in Chile.

You can, of course, write on a piece of paper that this «truth commission» will be fair and non-partisan and always examine the best evidence in a totally impartial manner.

The people on this «truth commission» would be the REAL government.

At 5 p.m., the second of three hearings is held as part of the Truth Commission on Poverty in New York State, organized by the Labor - Religion Coalition of New York State, First United Methodist Church, 603 State St., Schenectady.

Mulgrew called for the next administration to appoint a truth commission to investigate what has happened to city schools over the past 11 years under Bloomberg.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday got the nod of the state High Court sitting in Abeokuta to proceed through the Truth Commission and inquire...

As a nonfiction project, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the truth commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals unsettling truths of her own.

It was like a truth commission at the park.

Kim Stanton completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on truth commissions and public inquiries, and has published scholarly articles on the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, and the BC Missing Women Commission.

The idea of a truth commission was determined to be necessary as the majority of the Canadian public did not understand the story of the Indian Residential Schools system or appreciate its impact.

According to the U.S. Institute of Peace, the first «truth commission» was the Commission of Inquiry into the Disappearances of People in Uganda since 25 January, 1971.

The link from the USIP page to a summary of the Recommendations from the report has some excellent links at the bottom, particularly to the Truth Commissions Digital Collection

A Wikipedia article says «A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past.

For those interested in digging deeper into the international experience, the Truth Commissions Digital Collection contains decrees establishing truth commissions and similar bodies of inquiry worldwide, and the reports issued by such groups.

Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions has organized the leading research on past Truth Commissions in a manner that is oriented towards decision - making, to enable designers of future Commissions to identify the critical factors relevant to their societies.

The former students agreed on four conditions: that there must be a foundation established for healing, compensation for those who wanted it, a separate process for those who suffered severe physical, mental and sexual abuse, and that a «truth commission» be established that provided a «blanket» of personal, health and cultural safety for those who told their stories.