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JRR Featured in UNICEF’s Report

Thank you UNICEF for featuring us in your Standby Arrangements Annual Report of 2022! Justice Rapid Response and UNICEF are enjoying a longstanding collaboration, which started in 2015 with the deployment of two child rights experts who mentored UNICEF officers in the MENA region in the documentation of sexual and gender-based violence and other grave violations committedRead More

Renewed Strategic Partnership with the JEP

Today, Justice Rapid Response is proud to have renewed and expanded our strategic partnership with the ​​​​​Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), Colombia’s transitional justice mechanism established in the context of the signature of the Peace Agreement in 2016. Since 2019, Justice Rapid Response has made available its justice and human rights experts to supportRead More

El Espectador: Injecting Gender Expertise in the Work of the JEP

Today, in this piece of Felipe Morales Sierra from El Espectador, learn more about our contribution to the Jurisdicción Especial Para La Paz’s macro-case 2, which investigates the crimes and violations that occurred in the cities of Tumaco, Ricaurte, and Barbacoas, in the Colombian department of Nariño. Our legal expert on sexual and gender-based violence, DalilaRead More

Event Summary : Roundatble on the Impact on Child Rights of International Crimes & Serious Human Rights Violations affecting the Environment

In May, we hosted a roundtable in collaboration with Canada, Belgium, UN Women, and Save the Children International on the impact on child rights of international crimes and serious human rights violations affecting the environment. The roundtable sought to address the need for international accountability mechanisms to document and investigate the impact of international crimes and serious human rights violations onRead More

Our July Newsletter is Out!

In our July edition, check out the highlights of the event we co-hosted on June 1 with Yazda and the Clooney Foundation for Justice with the support of Canada that discussed the long and enduring path to justice for victims and survivors of the Yazidi genocide. You’ll also be able to learn more on thisRead More

Yazidi Genocide: Engaging with the Yazidi Survivors’ Path to Justice

Justice Rapid Response, Yazda and the Clooney Foundation for Justice are co-hosting an innovative and interactive event inviting guests to an open dialogue with survivors of the Yazidi genocide. GENEVA, 1 June 2023 – Justice Rapid Response (JRR), Yazda and the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) are co-hosting an innovative event providing representatives from Geneva-basedRead More

Le Temps: Victimes d’un génocide, les Yézidis attendent encore que la justice fasse son travail

Justice Rapid Response appeared this morning in Le Temps. Samuel Emonet, our Executive Director, touched on the importance to collaborate with all the accountability and justice actors, both on the national and international stages, in order to promote the rights and access to justice for victims and survivors. To article

JRR in the news!

Check out the latest piece of Virginia Domingo de la Fuente, one of our Roster experts, published in Law and Trends in which she distinguishes transitional and restorative justice through the case study of Colombia.  To article: Justicia transicional restaurativa, ¿es posible? A propósito del contexto colombiano  

The Maldives’ Commission on Deaths and Disappearances: Putting the Victims at the Center of the Justice Process

  On the sidelines of the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, Justice Rapid Response (JRR) co-hosted a side event together with the Permanent Missions of the Republic of the Maldives and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to emphasize the importance of relying on a victim-centered approach in State-led investigations.  Read More

FFM on Libya Final Report: JRR Welcomes the Findings on the Misuse of E.U. Public Funds to Detain Migrants

Today at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya will discuss its last report on the dire human rights situation in Libya and uncovered evidence of ongoing human rights violations fueled by the misappropriation of public funds.   GENEVA, 3 April 2023 – Justice Rapid Response (JRR) congratulatesRead More