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Les victimes de la crise malienne ne bénéficieront pas du Fonds au Profit des victimes disponible à la CPI
Written by Fatou Published in News and Ideas
Dans le cadre de la semaine des victimes qui se tient au Centre International de Conférence de Bamako (CICB) du 20 au 25 Juin 2016, la COMADDH et ses partenaires ont réuni les victimes de la crise malienne et les experts afin d’échanger sur le fonds au profit des victimes qui se trouve au niveau de la CPI.
Cette rencontre est organisée par la COMADDH dans le cadre de la commémoration de la journée mondiale des Nations Unies pour le soutien aux victimes. Plusieurs sujets relatifs aux droits des victimes de la crise malienne sont au menu. Parmi ces sujets, le fonds au profit des victimes.
La conférence sur les fonds au profit des victimes a pour objectif de cerner les différents fonds au profit des victimes. De façon spécifique, elle permettra, notamment aux victimes de connaitre l’existence de fonds au profit des victimes, de partager ses objets, les groupes cibles éligibles, les critères et conditions d’accès ainsi que les modalités de fonctionnement desdits fonds.
The Hissène Habré trial: a triumph for victims and civil society
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Nearly 26 years after he was forced out of power, former Chadian president Hissène Habré has been found guilty of crimes against humanity, torture (including sexual violence) and crimes of war committed under his rule from 1982 to 1990. He has been condemned to life imprisonment by the judges of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EACs), a court specially created by Senegal upon the request of the African Union (AU). This was the first trial of its kind on the continent and years of lobbying were necessary to convince the AU and Senegal to proceed with it. In pushing Africa to bring Habré to justice, the victims and the international coalition of non-governmental organisations that have supported them have shown that Africa’s relationship to international criminal justice is far more open than the statements of some African leaders might suggest. Africa’s people demand such justice, and will pull all the necessary levers to obtain it.
On 31 May 2015, TrustAfrica hosted a meeting on the margins of the Dakar Conference on “the Habré trial, Complementarity and Universal Jurisdiction”. Various key civil society actors working in the field of international criminal justice were convened to provide updates on Africa state interactions with the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as to strategize around the African Union (AU)-ICC relationship.
