Transitional Justice Tribunals

• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - The ICTY was a United Nations court of law that dealt with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s.

• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - The United Nations established the ICTR to prosecute those responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Rwanda in 1994.

  • International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) - Established by the United Nations, the IRMCT carries out the remaining functions of the ICTY and ICTR.

• Special Panels of the Dili District Court/Special Panels for Serious Crimes (East Timor) - The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor established this tribunal to try cases of serious criminal offenses which took place in East Timor in 1999.

• Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) - The SCSL was set up in 2002 as the result of a request to the United Nations in 2000 by the Government of Sierra Leone for "a special court" to address serious crimes against civilians and UN peacekeepers committed during the country's decade-long (1991-2002) civil war.

  • Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL) - The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone was established by an agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone to oversee the continuing legal obligations of the Special Court for Sierra Leone after its closure in 2013.

• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - Established as part of an agreement between the government of Cambodia and the United Nations, the ECCC tries serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime.

• Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) - The STL was established following a request by the government of Lebanon to the United Nations. Its primary mandate is to hold trials for those accused of carrying out the attack of February 14, 2005, which killed 22 people including the former prime minister of Lebanon.

• Extraordinary African Chambers - The Extraordinary African Chambers is a tribunal established under an agreement between the African Union and Senegal to try international crimes committed in Chad from June 7, 1982 to December 1, 1990.