Conference on "Towards the law for Transitional Justice"

Cairo, 7^th April, 2013

Conference on

"Towards the law for Transitional Justice"

The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) organizes a conference entitled ""Towards the law for Transitional Justice". The conference will be held on Monday 8^th April 2013 at 6:00 pm at the headquarters of leadership preparation center in Agouza.

The conference will discuss the elements necessary to pass an urgent law for Transitional Justice, ensuring a safe transition to democracy, justice and the rule of law.

The Conference discussions will address the answer to questions raised by the mechanisms and programs of transitional justice including:

• How can we progress towards universal justice during the political transition period in order to achieve a more just and democratic future?

• How do we deal with past crimes and violations and reveal its reality?

• What are the means of accountability for past crimes and abuses, and mechanisms to prevent its recurrence?

• What are the necessary conditions for reconciliation or amnesty in exchange for recognition of the truth, and why it is not permitted to the most serious crimes, and what are these crimes?

• What is the status of victims of past abuses and the means to redress the harm and reparation?

The conference seeks to put vision accepted by actors, and to determine a point in which all parties can stand to accountability and undertaking not to repeat past abuses to achieve a more just and democratic future based on innovation and focus on building new and balanced relationships between individuals and society. In addition to calling upon a law that adopts transitional justice programs, represented as follows:

Trials (whether civil or criminal) - the search for truth and fact-finding (whether through a formal national investigation and such as truth commissions or investigation commissions) - reparation (whether through symbolic or material compensation or rehabilitation) - institutional reform (including legal and institutional reforms and removing offenders from public office and conducting trainings on human rights for public employees) - the establishment of memorials and "collective memory".

Many human rights activists, political figures and media figures in Egypt will participate in this conference.