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Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is an independent non-governmental organisation based in South Africa. They conduct research, advocacy and training working with communities affected by violence and provide mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS) to survivors of conflict and human rights violations. CSVR research reports are made freely available on the site. Recent reports have covered civil society's role in transitional justice in Africa, climate justice and promoting transitional Justice in Africa.

African Transitional Justice Hub

The African Transitional Justice Hub is an initiative of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and documents best practices in African transitional justice. There are four databases covering the following topics: Transitional justice processes, truth commissions, peace agreements and truth seeking and sexual violence. Material includes case studies, agreements and details of reparations of transitional justice processes.

African Transitional Justice Hub

The African Transitional Justice Hub is an initiative of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and documents best practices in African transitional justice. There are four databases covering the following topics: Transitional justice processes, truth commissions, peace agreements and truth seeking and sexual violence. Material includes case studies, agreements and details of reparations of transitional justice processes.

African Coalition for Corporate Accountability

The African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) supports civil society organisations working for African communities whose human rights are adversely impacted by corporations. The focus is on environmental and natural resources rights, land acquisition, tenure and property rights with ACCA using policy advocacy, evidence-based research, capacity-building and technical support to promote community rights. Reports and policy briefs can be downloaded from the site.

Mauritius Legal Information Institute

Website with free access to Mauritian legislation and official gazettes. The site is hosted by AfricanLII (part of the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Law) in conjunction with Laws.Africa, a non-profit organisation that digitises African legal information for public use. The site has an advanced search function, which can be filtered by categories including case number, timeframe, citation etc. The site was last updated in November 2020.

AfricLaw

Blog created jointly in 2012 by the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and its Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa. Covers all areas of law relating to Africa, international, regional and national. Contributors include academics, practitioners and students.

Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA)

ICLA was founded in 2011 at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Its website details past and ongoing research projects and makes available their publications and data. It also has an African Constitutions section, providing the constitutions of over thirty African states, country reports, information about a number of books on African constitutional law, and the reports of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA).

Laws.Africa

Laws.Africa is a non-profit organisation working with African governments to make African legislation and cases available for free online. Its website provides technical information and an API developer guide; it also offers case studies, best practice guidance for publishing legal documentation online and information about naming conventions for documents.

Gazettes.Africa

Free online versions of official government gazettes from various African countries, compiled into one website, hosted by Laws.Africa and AfricanLII. The gazettes contain important government information, for example governmental notices and legislation such as acts and bills. The gazettes are in PDF form and are searchable by country and date, with new gazettes being updated on the website continually. The collections vary from country to country, and there are gazettes from 22 jurisdictions as well as the East African Community and ECOWAS.

South Africa’s By-Laws

Open By-laws is a community project supported by Laws.Africa which aims to make South African by-laws accessible online. By-laws are made by municipalities and the site currently provides access to the by-laws of Cape Town, Drakenstein, Johannesburg, Kannaland, Swartland, eThekwini, Bergrivier, Cape Agulhas, Cederberg, Matzikama and Mbizana. Instruments can be browsed alphabetically or searched by keyword, and downloaded in a range of formats.

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