A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Commissions 31-32 (2006); U.N. Principles to Combat
Impunity, supra note 260, Principle 13.
408 See Principles relating to the status and functioning of
national institutions for protection and promotion of
human rights, supra note 406.
409 Id. Principle A.2.
410 Id. Principle A.3(b).
411 Id. Principle A.3(d).
412 Id. Principle D.1- 4.
413 U.N. Mission in Liberia, Report on the Human Rights
Situation in Liberia: November 2007 – June 2008 30
(2008).
414 An Act to Establish the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Liberia, art. IV, § 48 (enacted by
the National Transitional Legislative Assembly, May
12, 2005), https://www.trcofliberia.org/about/trcmandate.
415 Id. art. IV, § 47; U.N. Principles to Combat Impunity,
supra note 260, Principle 13.
416 See generally, U.n. HigH Comm’r for HumAn rigHts,
rule-of-lAw tools for Post-ConfliCt stAtes:
vetting: An oPerAtionAl frAmework 23-24 (2006).
417 Rep. of Liberia, National Policy on Non-Governmental
Organizations in Liberia (2008), http://www.
emansion.gov.lr/doc/NGOPolicguidelines.pdf.
418 International Non-Governmental Organisations
Accountability Charter (2005), http://www.
realizingrights.org/index.php?option=content&task
=view&id=180.
419 U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, Draft Gen. Comment No. 10: The Role of
National Human Rights Institutions in the Protection of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights art. 3, U.N. Doc.
E/C.12/1998/25 (Dec. 10, 1998).
420 U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, Gen. Rec. No. 17: Establishment of
National Institutions to Facilitate Implementation of the
Convention art. 1, U.N. Doc. A/48/18 (Mar. 25, 1993).
421 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War art. 146, entered into
force Oct. 21, 1950, 75 U.N.T.S. 287. Grave breaches
include “those involving any of the following acts,
if committed against persons or property protected
by the present Convention: willful killing, torture or
inhuman treatment, including biological experiments,
willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to
body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer
or unlawful confinement of a protected person,
compelling a protected person to serve in the forces
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of a hostile Power, or willfully depriving a protected
person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed
in the present Convention, taking of hostages and
extensive destruction and appropriation of property,
not justified by military necessity and carried out
unlawfully and wantonly.” Id. art. 147.
422 Id. art. 146.
423 See Litigating International Human Rights Violations
in Domestic Courts Using Universal Jurisdiction
(Nov. 14, 2008), available at http://stopvaw.org, for
more detail.
424 Human Rights Watch, Universal Jurisdiction in Europe:
The State of the Art, June 27, 2006.
425 Amnesty Int’l, Universal Jurisdiction: The challenges for police
and prosecuting authorities, AI Index: IOR 53/007/2007.
426 Human Rights Watch, supra note 424.
427 Rome Statute, supra note 274, art. 86.
428 Declaration on Social Progress and Development,
supra note 378, art. 9.
429 Declaration on Social Progress and Development
supra note 378, art. 24(a).
430 Declaration on the Right to Development, supra note
310, art. 3(3).
431 Declaration on the Right to Development, supra note
310, art. 4.
432 Declaration on Social Progress and Development,
supra note 378, art. 22(d).
433 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Ownership,
Harmonisation, Alignment, Results and Mutual
Accountability (Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2005), http://www.
oecd.org/dataoecd/11/41/34428351.pdf.
434 Id. 16.
435 Id. 19.
436 Id. 21.
437 Id. 32.
438 Id. 39.
439 Id. 35.
440 MDG Africa Steering Group, Achieving the Millenium
Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of
the MDG Africa Steering Group at 24 (2008).
441 See International Donor Community Report
Card; Investment in Liberia’s Future (2007) for
specific examples, found at http://www.jubileeusa.
org/fileadmin/user_upload/Resources/liberia_
reportcard_07.pdf.
442 See generally Achieving the Millenium Development
Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG
Africa Steering Group Fact Sheet, http://www.
mdgafrica.org/media_kit/mdg%20africa%20