Contesting expertise: anthropologists at the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Gender and the Charles Taylor Case at the Special Court for Sierra Leone

The Gender Jurisprudence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Progress in the Revolutionary United Front Judgments

In March 2009, Trial Chamber I of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) issued its judgment in Prosecutor v. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao, known as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) case.1 The SCSL rendered the appeals judgment a short time later on October 26, 2009.2 The trial and appeals judgments in the RUF case were highly anticipated because the atrocities of ...

The Sierra Leone HIS Case:

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design of a change strategy towards an integrated HIS ...

Sierra Leone: the forgotten mortality

T he 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries across West Africa, Europe, and the United States. Sierra Leone is among the predominant three nations affected, alongside Guinea and Liberia. As of 14 December 2014, there have been 8,356 cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone, with 2,417 deaths (1). However, little focus has been paid to the deteriora...

rebuilding international criminal law: a review of judicial structures of special court for sierra leone to access to the traits of tribunals with new legal system

after occurring massive crimes at countries such as rwanda and primer yugoslavia, several courts started to prosecute criminals. for former yugoslavia, icty and for rwanda domestic courts, gacaca, foreign domestic courts were prosecuting the crimes. this approach caused that international criminal law plays a completely different role compared to internal law. pursuant to development of interna...