Amendments to transitional justice law ‘progressive but not satisfactory’

Government registers bill seeking changes in Act seven years after top court ruling that struck down amnesty provisions in serious human rights violations.

Seven years after the Supreme Court’s directives for amendment, the government on Friday registered a bill at the parliament secretariat to revise the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappeared, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2014, which the conflict victims and human rights activists say is progressive but far from satisfactory.