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Transformative Transitional Justice For Climate Justice: Lessons From Practice

In 2025, two South African communities created the first explicitly transitional justice process for climate harms. Emphasising the experiences and solutions of residents directly affected by climate change, the process was also novel in using a transformative approach to transitional…

Jasmina Brankovic

13 Feb 2026

Policy, Publications, Criminal Justice, Gender-based Violence

Report Of The Third Southern Africa Gender-based Violence Prevention Forum

The Third Southern Africa GBV Prevention Forum, held in Johannesburg from 19 to 21 August 2025, brought together diverse stakeholders from across the region to reflect, share and co-create strategies for preventing and responding to gender based violence (GBV). The…

CSVR

13 Jan 2026

Articles, Media, Our News and Events, Gender-based Violence, Psychosocial Support, Trauma Counselling, Violence and Trauma

In The Shadow Of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma Of Families In Search Of Healing And Justice

In the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice This article is published as part of the CSVR Justice Op-Ed Series for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The Bolwana* and…

Lethabo Motloung

15 Dec 2025

Articles, Media, Our News and Events, Gender-based Violence, Psychosocial Support

Behind The Screen: How Digital Tools Are Fuelling Gender-based Violence

Behind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence What happens when the very technologies built to connect and empower us become weapons of surveillance, control, and gendered harm? Over the last decade, digital tools and online spaces have…

Lesego Sekhu

12 Dec 2025

Policy, Publications, African Union, Capacity Building, Gender-based Violence, Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, Restorative Justice, Social Cohesion, Transitional Justice

Guide De Mise En Oeuvre De La Politique De Justice Transitionnelle De L'union Africaine: RÉpublique Centrafricaine

Depuis son indépendance en 1960, la République centrafricaine (RCA) a connu une instabilité et des violences qui ont culminé en 2013 lorsque les rebelles de la Séléka ont renversé le président François Bozizé. La milice « Antibalaka » formée en…

Kessy Martine Ekomo Soignet

11 Dec 2025

Publications, Research, African Union, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

African Transitions Tracker

Since the beginning of 2025, African political discourse has increasingly centred on militarism, especially among the youth and across diverse social media platforms. The reference point of conversation has been Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard…

Bobuin Jr Valery Gemandze Oben

11 Dec 2025

Transformative Transitional Justice for Climate Justice: Lessons from Practice

Transformative Transitional Justice For Climate Justice: Lessons From Practice

Report Of The Third Southern Africa Gender-based Violence Prevention Forum

In The Shadow Of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma Of Families In Search Of Healing And Justice

Behind The Screen: How Digital Tools Are Fuelling Gender-based Violence

African Transitions Tracker

CSVR Announces New Executive Director

Video: Rethinking Climate Justice

When Yes is Not Free – Power Coercion and Consent in South Africa

Rights on Paper, Inequality in Practice: South Africa's 30 Years of Unfinished Constitutional Promise

Justice Denied, Silence Maintained: Women's Voices from the Margins of South Africa's Justice System

Transformative Transitional Justice and Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies for Climate Justice

Promoting Transitional Justice and Accountability in Africa

Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations – Report of the Ninth African Transitional Justice Forum – FRENCH

Local Transitional Justice Practices for Climate Justice: The Case of Nkhulambe, Malawi

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – PORTUGUESE

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – FRENCH

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