Africa Region: Human Rights Defenders and Lawyers Propose Means to Strengthen Access to Redress for Victims of Human Rights Atrocities

Reporting by International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-Geneva)Read the original at icj.org

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — On 9-10 September the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) gathered legal practitioners, civil society representatives, and victim advocates from across anglophone Africa in Johannesburg, to consider means of strengthening access to justice in non-criminal processes.