Advancing Global Human Rights Accountability Through Research, Collaboration, and Action

This project examines three key dimensions of confessional practices after conflict—state violence, revolutionary violence, and sexual violence—to understand how truth-telling can challenge silence, reshape accountability, and advance transitional justice.

This project explores how business actors have been held accountable for their roles in authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Through data-driven research, strategic litigation support, and international collaboration, CATJ bridges the gap between academic inquiry and real-world justice efforts—centering victims’ rights in transitional justice processes around the world.

OID works with academic institutions and grassroots groups in Mexico and Brazil to spotlight enforced disappearances that continue even after democratic transitions. By analyzing patterns of perpetration and impunity, the project supports victims’ demands for truth, justice, and structural change in post-authoritarian societies.

RagR explores the growth of right-wing movements that challenge democratic norms and threaten human rights in the region. With an interdisciplinary lens, the project investigates the ideologies and dynamics behind these trends to inform strategies for protecting democratic resilience and civil liberties.

TJRC compiled one of the most comprehensive datasets on transitional justice mechanisms worldwide, covering 109 democratic transitions across 86 countries (1970–2012). Built by leading researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard University, the dataset includes information on human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties, with more public data coming soon—including new coverage of prosecutions, vetting, and reparations.