Interactive Radio For Justice is a project designed to encourage dialog between people in regions where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating the most serious crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes) and the national and international authorities responsible for rendering justice to them. [more...]
Interactive Radio for Justice starts 2010 with our first program produced in Kasugho, DRC, an isolated town in North Kivus, DRC. Despite continued insecurity the team in Kasugho is recording questions on human rights and the law within their community and bringing answers from authorities back to their listeners through IRfJ programming.
IRfJ programs produced during December are described below, you can find them all on this website.
How a culture of criminality, the daily struggles of people in Bunia to stay safe, is being addressed by local authorities is the subject of this program.
Citizens in Goma ask if Jean Pierre Bemba will be granted the provisional release requested by his defense as well as a host of other local, national and international justice questions.
Our radio partner in Kasugho, DRC has produced its first IRfJ program, which allows citizens in this isolated community in north Kivus access to justice authorities.
In this program they ask : how long someone can be detained before a trial, who is responsible for justice in sexual violence cases and if Jean Pierre Bemba will be held accountable at the ICC for crimes he committed in the DRC as well as those he’s accused of in the Central African Republic.
Presiding Judge Bruno Cotte invited the Head of Investigations for the Office of the Prosecutor, whose identity is protected, to testify as the trials’ first witness in order for the Chamber to better understand the conditions in which investigations were conducted for this case.
This program presents the opening statements from lawyers for participating victims in the trial. IRfJ journalist Jean Pierre Kabulabo (pictured) was able to record trial-material directly in the ICC press room.