Human Rights Reporting on Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts:: A Story of Stagnation and Failure

Julia M Viebach; Benjamin Thorne

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Human Rights Reporting on Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: A Story of Stagnation and Failure

Julia M Viebach, Benjamin Thorne^*

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Abstract

The human rights report has become a new genre in the proliferation and application of human rights, centred on the idea of professionalized, objective reporting in a depoliticized, dispassionate tone that speaks from the vantage point of universal human rights rather than from a leftist view or from that of an opposition party. The human rights report has become a key locus in knowledge production about human rights violations globally. These reports fundamentally and profoundly inform our understanding of conflict, violence and accountability measures in the aftermath of conflict.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rwanda Since 1994:
Subtitle of host publication	Stories of Change
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Pages	41-61
Number of pages	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vw0t
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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