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Welcome
The Justice Rapid
Response (JRR) is a multilateral stand-by facility to deploy rapidly criminal
justice and related professionals, trained for international investigations and
at the service of States and international institutions. It allows the
international community to provide much needed support for compliance with and
the effective enforcement of international criminal justice, thus helping to
make justice an integral and constructive part of conflict resolution and
post-conflict peace-building. At the request of a State or international
institution with jurisdiction, JRR experts can deploy quickly to identify,
collect and preserve especially the most perishable information about crimes
under international law and massive human rights violations, and reporting back
to the requesting authority would be in a position, if requested, to make
recommendations as to the most appropriate remedies under the circumstance.
In
2005, the Governments of Finland, Germany, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Switzerland
and the United Kingdom commissioned a
Feasibility
Study, which details many aspects of the JRR.
Learn more..
Pursuant to the
first
meeting of the JRR Coordinating Group (Eng/Fr), an information kit consisting of the
basic background documents will be prepared in a number of languages, initially
in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. The "Frequently Asked Questions" document (Eng) was adopted by the
Coordinating Group on 30 April 2008, and is constantly updated. These and
other documents are posted on
this website as and when they become available.
Please do not hesitate
to contact us if we can be of any assistance or provide you with further
information concerning the Justice Rapid Response.
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Latest Updates
Justice Rapid Response Certification Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, 1-4 July 2012
Justice Rapid Response will be holding a Certification Workshop in conjunction with the 22nd Congress of the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM), in Istanbul, Turkey, in July 2012. The JRR workshop will take place from 1 to 4 July 2012. The workshop's opening ceremony will be held on 1 July and will include an address from Professor Duarte Nuno Vieira (MD, MSc, PhD), Head of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Portugal and President of IALM.
Nominations for this Workshop will be reserved to registered participants in the IALM Congress. Successful completion of the JRR workshop will enable participants to be certified to the JRR roster, and thus eligible to take part in investigations where members of the international community requests JRR’s assistance, in situations where international criminal law and serious human rights violations may have occurred. This Certification Workshop will be sponsored by the Government of Australia. The deadline for nominations is 18 May 2012.
The full
application package consists of:
Call for
Nominations
JRR Nomination Form,
to be completed and signed by the nominating entity
JRR Personal History Form,
to be completed in by the nominated expert
Certification Workshops at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania, 16-21 April 2012
Justice Rapid
Response (JRR) will be holding two Certification Workshops at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania, from 16 to 21 April 2012. These Certification Workshops will be offered to 46 ICTR professionals from the Office of the Prosecutor, Chambers and the Registry. The purpose of the Certification Workshops is to certify international criminal professionals from the ICTR to the JRR roster. Those certified would become eligible for deployments to take part in investigations where members of the international community request JRR’s assistance in situations where international criminal law and serious human rights violations may have occurred. These Certification Workshops are sponsored by the Directorate for International Law of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Finland and the Government of Luxembourg and are held in collaboration with the ICTR and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI).
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