The Interactive Radio for Justice project closed in July 2011, after over six years of working in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Central African Republic, in regions where the International Criminal Court is investigating war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Our goal was to create a dynamic and interactive communication between those who are targeted by investigations and those who are responsible for bringing justice to these communities.

This website will remain open for at least one year so that it can be used for research purposes by anyone who is interested – all radio programming produced by IRfJ is accessible via MP3 format in French, and is accompanied with English language transcripts and photographs.

There are three videos produced by IRfJ on the website, as well as numerous photos and essays on our activities. The three Music for Justice CD’s produced (two in Ituri, DRC and one in Bangui, CAR) are also available and can be downloaded from this website.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

IRfJ programs produced during January are described below and are now posted in French with English transcripts:

Co-Production between IRfJ in Central African Republic and IRfJ in Democratic Republic of Congo: As mentioned last month, Abdon Manengu from our team in Goma, DRC and Richard Goutia, from our team in Bangui, CAR, covered the first week of the trial for Jean Pierre Bemba at the International Criminal Court. Pprograms 4 through 6 in this series are now available here ! Read full article :

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! As we enter 2011 with the project we are grateful for all of the support we’ve received from so many of you. Thank you for your interest, your encouragement and your collaboration!

IRfJ programs produced during December are described below and are now posted on www.irfj.org in French with English transcripts:

Read full article : December programs and news

From our intern, a week in The Hague : Katharina Neureiters Blog from Bemba trial opening

Interactive Radio for Justice has completed it’s first annual Impact Assessment Report. Sarah Katz-Lavigne, IRfJ’s Impact Analysit, has been working with listening clubs and her local assistants in each of the IRfJ field bases to collect data on how people in our target communities learn from and use IRfJ programming. Through surveys and interviews Ms. Katz-Lavigne also studied the impact of the IRfJ project on our secondary target community of international practitioners, including the International Criminal Court, NGOs and academia.

La Radio Interactive pour la Justice vient de publier son premier bilan sur l’impact de notre projet vis a vis nos auditeurs cibles sur le terrain. Mlle Sarah Katz-Lavigne travaille depuis l’année dernière avec nos clubs d’écoute et avec ses assistantes sur le terrain pour collecter des données, par le biais de sondages et d’interviews, pour évaluer aussi notre impact avec notre « audience secondaire », celle de praticiens du droit, y compris la Cour Pénale Internationale, les ONG et dans les facultés académiques du droit et de droits d’homme.

Read the report : Impact Assessment Report – IRFJ – August 2010 (pdf)

View the pictures on the Impact Assessment page

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Interactive Radio for Justice activity during June is outlined below:

A colorful 15-minute film, produced by Lewis Mudge, IRfJ’s Field Manager, introduces our teams and the work they do for the project in Bunia, Goma and Kasugho, Democratic Republic of Congo. The film is in French with English subtitles:

http://www.irfj.org/the-project/project-in-ituri/

IRfJ programs produced during June are described below : Read full article : June programs updates

IRfJ programs produced during May are described below and are now posted in French with English transcripts:

Read full article : May programs update

Chers amis et collègues,

Les programmes de Radio interactive pour la Justice produits en avril sont décrits ci-dessous.

RIJ en Ituri, RDC :

Dans l’émission 62 du programme RIJ en Ituri http://www.irfj.org/category/drc/irfj-base-drc/, les questions suivantes ont été posées : Quelle est la relation entre le Tribunal de première instance et le « Tribunal de paix », ou les tribunaux régionaux ? Que dit la CPI à propos des crimes commis en 2002 à Nayankunde où plus de 2000 personnes ont été massacrées et où un hôpital a été détruit ? Le conseil de la Défense pour Katanga et Ngudjolo a demandé au Procureur de la CPI de poursuivre des Ougandais et des Rwandais pour leur responsabilité – le Procureur a-t-il pris cela en compte ? Read full article : April programs on IRFJ

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

IRfJ programs produced during February and March are described below and are now posted on this website with english transcripts.

Read full article : February and march programs

Dear Friends and Colleagues: IRfJ programs produced during January are online and described below.

Chers amis et collègues, les programmes de Radio interactive pour la Justice produits en janvier sont décrits ci-dessous et disponibles en ligne. Read full article : January programs : overview