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Article 145 empowers the Supreme Court to coordinate and oversee the activities of the lower courts and tribunals, while ensuring judicial independence. [1] Aloysie Cyanzayire was the first female president of the Supreme Court of Rwanda; she served an eight-year term from 2004 until 2012. [2] [3]: 142
The Gacaca courts (Kinyarwanda: [ɡɑ.t͡ʃɑ̌ː.t͡ʃɑ]) were a system of transitional justice in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide. The term 'gacaca' can be translated as 'short grass' referring to the public space where neighborhood male elders (abagabo) used to meet to solve local problems. [ 1 ]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [a] (ICTR; French: Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Kinyarwanda: Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of ...
The list of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or contempt of the Tribunal by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pursuant to the Statute of the Tribunal. An ...
Cyanzayire played a seminal role in establishing the post-genocide reconciliation courts, or Gacaca courts, modelled on traditional Rwandan judicial procedures, which were encouraged as both a means to relieve the caseload burden on the judiciary and promote communal healing. In a speech at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in ...
On Thursday, the court was told that the policy’s procedure is “inherently unlawful” and that asylum seekers could be removed to Rwanda within three weeks of arriving in the UK.
The goals of the Gacaca courts are “to enable truth-telling,” “to promote reconciliation,” “to eradicate the culture of impunity,” “to speed up the trial of genocide suspects,” and “to demonstrate Rwanda’s own problem-solving capacity.” [17] [15] These courts "encourage offenders to confess, to express public apology, and ...
Britain’s controversial plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda was struck down by the Supreme Court Wednesday, dealing a potentially fatal blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship policy ...