Примеры использования Gacaca courts на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Capacity development for the gacaca courts in Rwanda;
The gacaca courts, having completed the mandate entrusted to them, would be dissolved on 17 June 2012.
She also fears that she may be tried before the Gacaca courts.
Mr. Karugarama(Rwanda) said that the gacaca courts had not taken on any new cases during the previous 18 months.
Rwanda introduced a traditional justice mechanism following the genocide called the gacaca courts.
The Executive Secretary of the national Gacaca Courts Service is a woman.
The Gacaca courts that were instituted in 2001 are already operational in part, and they will soon be functioning throughout the country.
The Committee takes note of the information provided by the State party to the effect that the gacaca courts are to cease their functions.
The Gacaca courts did not try those responsible for massacres of Hutu civilians committed by members of the RPF, which controlled the Gacaca Court system.
Mr. Wang Xuexian asked the delegation to provide written information on the gacaca courts, whose efficiency had intrigued him.
Gacaca courts had been established to promote reconciliation and reveal the truth behind the genocide that had taken place in the State party.
In particular, the application of local cultural values through such mechanisms as the gacaca courts had helped to heal a shattered society.
According to HRW,community-based gacaca courts, which began trying genocide cases in 2002, were finally expected to close in 2010.
The fact that the perpetrators of the genocide are now living side by side with the victims is testimony that unity andreconciliation are possible, and that the gacaca courts have played a major role in this context.
Gacaca Courts: The Gacaca Court is a system of community justice inspired by tradition and established in Rwanda in 2001.
In 2006, the CBCR followed up with another message on the Gacaca courts exhorting participants to not transform these courts into tribunals of division.
Gacaca courts managed to down size the cases backlog throughout the country due to the large size of the population implicated in the Genocide perpetration.
Human Rights Watch expressed concern at the absence of fair trial safeguards in the Gacaca courts, and regretted that the national human rights commission had sometimes undermined the work of non-governmental organizations.
Regarding the gacaca courts, the delegation explained that the mechanism had dealt with millions of files in a short period of time, and had reconciled people and brought them into the community.
With these policies in place, the delegation believed that by 2015, Rwanda would have the smallest number of prisoners in the region, if not on the entire continent,due mainly to the fact that most of the genocide prisoners sentenced in gacaca courts would be reintegrated into their communities after serving their sentences.
Following the closure of the gacaca courts in 2012, justice and accountability with regard to emerging genocide cases remain a concern.
In 2004, on the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide the CBCR published a second pastoral message calling upon all to establish unity among the Rwandan people and to contribute to safeguarding liberty andjustice, especially in the Gacaca courts CBCR, Souvenons-nous de ce qui s'est passé en renforçant la vérité, la justice et le pardon, in L'Osservatore Romano, N. 22, 1er juin 2004, no. 19.
From the inception of Gacaca courts in 2002 until October 2008, a total number of 1,127,706 cases were filed before Gacaca courts out of which 1,123,027 were tried and completed.
The Government has begun administrative reforms and has set up bodies with responsibility for good governance. These include the Office of the Ombudsman, the Gender Monitoring Office, a number of committees(for example, on the anti-genocide fight, the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, etc.), various councils(women, young people)and also the Gacaca courts, which dispense transitional justice.
The Act establishing the Gacaca courts provides for penalties of community service for persons who confess their crimes and plead guilty to the offences with which they are charged.
In addition to entrusting the overall coordination of the gacaca courts to a woman(Executive Secretary of the national Gacaca Courts Service), many women have been chosen as lay judges in gacaca courts.
Noting that the gacaca courts had been set up in 2001 to try crimes committed during and after the genocide and should have been abolished by 2010, he would like to know whether their experience of reconciliation processes had been positive and whether they could be used to resolve conflicts that were not genocide-related.
Rwanda has undertaken initiatives to address those challenges through such home-grown approaches as the gacaca courts; Itorero, a culture-based platform through which people solve their problems and which promotes national unity and executes all Government development programmes at all levels; and Igando, a tool to build coexistence within communities.
Gacaca courts: assessment of the activities of these courts and their impact on national reconciliation; legal guarantees to ensure fair trials; assessment of the policy to reintegrate persons found guilty, most of whom are of Hutu origin; and compensation for persons detained for genocide or complicity in genocide but found not guilty, most of whom are Hutu.
The national courts(e.g. conventional court system, military court andthe traditional community courts or Gacaca courts) of the Rwandan Government as well as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda have had"concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute persons for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of Rwanda and Rwandan citizens for such violations committed in the territory of the neighbouring States, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994.