الحق بمعرفة الحقيقة في القانون الدولي

Abstract EN

It is increasingly common in countries emerging from civil war or authoritarian rule that suffered of serious violations of human rights, victims and their families seek to know what happened to them in the past and why it happened and the most important who committed such violations.

change the legal systems governing countries, it is necessary to investigate the past of previous regimes and reveal the violations of the law and human rights, sometimes to redress the victims and their families, and at other times to prevent a recurrence of what happened in the past.

The right to truth is one of the most important mechanisms of transitional justice.

It includes writing down the heritage and memory of peoples who depend on codifying and knowing the facts of human rights violations that occurred under a specific ruling, and uncovering the facts of the people's oppression of the public and in particular the victims and their families, and it has confirmed a group of UN reports on the need to preserve the right to know the truth as it reveals the people's heritage and history, which must be preserved from fraud and misrepresentation.

The right to truth emerged as a legal right based on legislation and agreements that met international acceptance and entered into force by providing information to the families of missing persons, so as to keep the families of the victims aware of the fate of their relatives or even the entire community to inform him of the circumstances of human rights violations, and this came in response to document the facts of what happened and how it happened.

Several international instruments, national laws, and establishments that were established on the basis of the right to know the truth as a human right to know its individual and societal dimension, and if they were diversified in the ways in which they were drawn and established, affirmed in large ways the issue of informing victims of past violations of The truth of what happened, its causes and the perpetrators of these violations.

The right to truth as a stand-alone and independent right is considered one of the rights that did not enjoy extensive studies in international law except for some studies prepared by the United Nations agencies to define the frameworks of the right and its material scope, but this research deals with the right to know the truth in terms of analysis and scrutiny of legal texts as It dealt with reports and studies of the United Nations agencies in the manner of gathering information to reach a clear and clear picture of the right to know the truth.