A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Notes
1 An Act to Establish the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Liberia, Preamble (enacted by the
National Transitional Legislative Assembly, May
12, 2005), https://www.trcofliberia.org/about/trcmandate.
2 African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights art. 62, entered into force Oct. 21, 1986, 21 I.L.M.
58 [hereinafter African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights].
3 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
art 26(1), CAB/LEG/66.6 (Sept. 13, 2000), entered
into force Nov. 25, 2005 [hereinafter African Women’s
Rights Protocol].
4 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the
Child art. 43, O.A.U. Doc. CAB/LEG/24.9/49
(1990), entered into force Nov. 29, 1999 [hereinafter
African Charter on the Rights of the Child].
5 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and
Governance art. 49(1), 8th ord. sess. (Jan 30, 2007),
http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Documents/
Treaties/treaties.htm.
6 African Union Convention on Preventing and
Combating Corruption art. 22(7), 2d ord. sess. (July
11, 2003), http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/
Documents/Treaties/treaties.htm.
7 U.N. Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right
to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross
Violations of International Human Rights Law and
Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law
8, C.H.R. res. 2005/35, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2005/
L.10/Add.11 (19 April 2005) [U.N. Principles on
Right to a Remedy].
8 Id. 9.
9 U.N. Principles on Right to a Remedy, supra note 7.
10 An Act to Establish the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Liberia, art. VII, § 26(j)(i) (enacted by
the National Transitional Legislative Assembly, May
12, 2005), https://www.trcofliberia.org/about/trcmandate.
11 PrisCillA b. HAyner, unsPeAkAble trutHs: fACing
tHe CHAllenge of trutH Commissions 182 (2001).
12 Special attention should be given to not excluding
some victims, such as in the case of Chile excluding
torture victims from any monetary reparations. See
also U.N. Principles on Right to a Remedy, supra note
7, art. XII.
498
13 Basic Principles and Guidelines on Reparation, supra
note 7, art. VIII, 13.
14 Id. art. X, 21.
15 Id. art. X, 22(c). See also Recommendations related
to family tracing and reunification.
16 Id. art. IX.
17 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
art. 23(1), G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), U.N. Doc. A/6316
(1966), entered into force Mar. 23, 1976, 999 U.N.T.S.
171; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
supra note 2, art. 18.
18 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions
of 12 Aug. 1949, and Relating to the Protection of
Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol
I), art. 32, 1125 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force Dec. 7, 1978
[hereinafter Additional Protocol I].
19 Id. art. 74. See also Compilation of General Comments and
General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty
Bodies: Note by the Secretariat, at 150, U.N. Doc. HRI/
GEN/1/Rev.7 (May 12, 2004).
20 African Charter on the Rights of the Child, supra note
4, Art. 25(2)(b).
21 European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Position
on Refugee Family Reunification 33 (2000), http://
www.ecre.org/files/family.pdf.
22 Id. 34.
23 See generally u.n. HigH Comm’r for refugees
(unHCr), HAndbook: voluntAry rePAtriAtion:
internAtionAl ProteCtion ch. 7.1 (1996) [hereinafter
unHCr rePAtriAtion HAndbook], http://www.
unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/3bfe68d32.pdf.
24 National Information Bureau (NIB): 25th International
Conference of the Red Cross, Geneva, 23 to 31 October
1986, Resolution 14, 256 int’l rev. red Cross 340
(1986), http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/
htmlall/57JMdh?opendocument.
25 European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Position
on Refugee Family Reunification, supra note 21, 33.
26 See 22nd Int’l Conference of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent, Nov. 8 - Nov. 15, 1973, Resolution V: The
Missing and Dead in Armed Conflicts.
27 unHCr rePAtriAtion HAndbook, supra note 23, ch.
7.3.
28 Brookings Institution, Protecting Internally Displaced
Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers 96, Oct.
2008.
29 Id. at 97.
30 See http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Docu
ments/Session3/CO/UNHCR_COL_UPR