Civil institutions that are reliable, accountable, and accessible are crucial to building confidence in government.

When the design of a proceeding adopted by the courts undercuts a child’s credibility before they speak, that obligation is ...

Cristina Alejandra Estrella is an Argentine lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and a civil-law notary from the University of Morón. She completed a postgraduate specialization in civil law at ...

Remarkably, the report only mentions human rights once—a near-total omission even more surprising given Piketty’s extensive writings on social rights and the report’s focus on global justice and broad ...

Nicholas E. Stewart is the executive director of the Justice Education Project, the first national Gen Z-led criminal justice reform organization, where his research focuses on the sociology of ...

In 2024, Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET), a project I have co-directed for five years, released a global database of human rights accountability mechanisms dating from 1970 to 2020. The ...

In protracted conflicts, the distinction between “victim” and “perpetrator” is not always clear-cut. The victim-perpetrator distinction has both symbolic and material implications. In many ...

Although transitional justice has dedicated greater attention to gender and sexual violence since 1990, more work is still urgently needed. Meanwhile, by documenting criminal accountability for human ...