Summary

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, having taken up his functions in May 2018, presents his preliminary vision of four main lines of engagement with the General Assembly: (a) transitional justice, prevention and sustaining peace; (b) harnessing youth’s creative agency for transitional justice; (c) accentuating the gender perspective in transitional justice efforts; and (d) the intersection of human rights (with a focus on economic, social and cultural rights) and the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of transitional justice.