Tanzania, Sept. 3 -- Arusha. The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) has launched a unified court record (UCR) database.
The facility rolled out on Monday brings together all public judicial records of the Mechanism and two other UN criminal tribunals.
These are the disbanded International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Mechanism itself.
The unified court record provides integrated and enhanced public access to a wide array of records from the three institutions.
These include indictments, trial transcripts, motions, orders, decisions and judgments as well as public evidence admitted in court.
In addition, the UCR has been designed t...