“On 26 September 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed resolution A/HRC/RES/18/7, creating a new special-procedures mandate for a Special Rapporteur (SR) on the Promotion of Truth,
Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-recurrence. The announcement was welcomed by human-rights and peacebuilding organisations around the world as an important development in establishing increased accountability for human-rights violations and atrocities
committed during violent conflict. The mandate came almost 14 years after former SR, Louis Joinet, a UN appointed expert on the human-rights situation in Haiti, submitted a report outlining a fundamental set of principles to combat impunity in 1997. These have since become known as the Joinet Principles. In 2007, the Chicago
Principles on Post-Conflict Justice provided seven widely accepted guidelines on addressing post-conflict justice.”
