The Trial of Charles Taylor

International Criminal Justice in the Making

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    This site will provide news and expert analysis — updated regularly when the Court is in session — throughout the trial of Charles Taylor. It is intended as the primary resource for all those interested in the trial, with a particular emphasis on reaching West African audiences.

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    The trial is being conducted Monday through Thursday in three sessions from 9:30-11:30, 12:00-1:30, and 2:30-4:30. There is usually no afternoon session on Fridays.

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Links

INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS

Special Court for Sierra Leone
http://www.sc-sl.org/ 

International Criminal Court
http://www.icc-cpi.int/

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
http://www.un.org/icty/

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
http://www.ictr.org/

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/ and 
http://www.unakrt-online.org/ (Official UN Assistance to the ECCC site)

CIVIL SOCIETY

Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme
http://www.slcmp.org/drwebsite/index.shtml 

U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center – Monitoring the Special Court for Sierra Leone
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~warcrime/SL-weekly.htm

Open Society Initiative for West Africa
http://www.osiwa.org/en/node 

Open Society Justice Initiative
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/ 

Human Rights Watch – International Justice
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=justice

International Center for Transitional Justice – Sierra Leone
http://www.ictj.org/en/where/region1/141.html

International Senior Lawyers Project
http://www.islp.org/ 

Human Rights First – Charles Taylor
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/international_justice/w_context/w_cont_04.htm

Impunity Watch
http://impunitywatch.net/

LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS

Sierra Leone Bar Association
http://www.slbar.sl/

NEWS OUTLETS

http://allafrica.com/