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The Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA) is a non-governmental organisation which offers professional services towards the promotion of a human rights culture, peace and democracy. Since November 1993, the Institute has offered human rights training courses, disseminated human rights information and conducted research and do advocacy. HURISA works with civil society organisations, governmental institutions and vulnerable groups in South Africa and on the continent of Africa.

 

CRITICISM AGAINST WARRANT FOR AL-BASHIR ARE MISDIRECTED

 

Richard Goldstone said that criticisms leveled against the international prosecutors in The Hague seeking a warrant of arrest for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir are misdirected. Al-Bashir is to be charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the last five years of war in Darfur. In an article published in The New York Times of 15 July 2008, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda said that the 1998 Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court removed head-of-state immunity for atrocity crimes.

 

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Goldstone Commission Reports online...

The reports of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, commonly referred to as the Goldstone Commission, is now available on this website. The Commission investigated incidents of public violence and intimidation in South Africa up to the 1994 general election.

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