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ASF support provided to the International Crimes Division in Uganda
Kampala, 28 August 2017 – Since 2012, ASF has been supporting the International Crimes Division (ICD) in Uganda. Formerly known as the War Crimes Division, the ICD is a domestic court that was created...
View ArticleSpecial Criminal Court in CAR: what role should victims play in procedures?
Brussels, 18 October 2017 – In early October, alongside other civil society actors, both international and from the Central African Republic, ASF took part in a workshop to discuss the Rules of...
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Victims’ legal representation raised at the 16th Assembly of States Parties...
Brussels, 18 December 2017 – At the Sixteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, ASF and REDRESS co-organised a parallel event on the legal representation of victims before...
View ArticleThe acquittal of Jean-Pierre Bemba: lessons must be learned
Brussels, 11 June 2018 – The acquittal on appeal of Jean-Pierre Bemba by the International Criminal Court leaves several thousand victims in the Central African Republic without no proper response to...
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the fight against impunity continues
Kinshasa, 3 June 2019 – Access to justice is more crucial than ever to ease the existing tensions in the North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been...
View ArticleThe DRC must pay off its debt to victims of mass crimes
Why do so few victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) receive reparations even as the number of convictions for international crimes continues to rise? A policy brief produced by ASF,...
View ArticleASF joins the “Poverty is not a crime” campaign
ASF joins the Open Society Foundation, APCOF, PALU, and ACJR in a campaign to promote the decriminalisation and declassification of minor offences. “Vagrancy”, “disorderly behaviour” or “idleness”...
View ArticleDjugu killings: Significant evolution of Congolese jurisprudence on reparations
The Djugu 2 trial came to an end on 1 April 2021. It concluded with 21 defendants being sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity by murder, arson, destruction, pillaging and...
View ArticleReparation to victims of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of...
ASF has been active in the fight against impunity and the field of international justice for over 15 years in the DRC. During that time, the organization has witnessed great progress but regrets that...
View ArticleInternational Court of Justice Ruling in the DRC v. Uganda Case: Ensuring a...
On 9 February 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Uganda to pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for damages to persons, property and...
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