PJI knows that our local colleagues investigating and prosecuting grave crimes need access to the tools international practitioners regularly use, and in their own language. While every country’s needs are different, we provide some of the most universal, important, and useful tools on this page.

Victim Rights


Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law

The International Criminal Court

The Rome Statute (Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court)

Elements of Crimes at the International Criminal Court

International Treaties

Convention on Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Additional Legal and Litigation Resources

Case Matrix Network, Command Responsibility, 1st ed. Jan 2016.

Case Matrix Network, Command Responsibility, 2nd ed. Nov 2016.

FIDH, Unheard, Unaccounted: Towards Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence at the ICC and Beyond, 2018.

Sammie, Linking High-level Accused to Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in International Criminal Law, 2021.

Marcus, Positive (and Practical) Complementarity: Practical Tools for Peer Prosecutors and Investigators Bringing Atrocity Crimes Cases in National Jurisdictions, International Criminal Investigations: Law and Practice, Eleven International Publishing, 14 December 2017 | 1st edition | 342 pp., ISBN 978-94-6236-779-1, EISBN 978-94-6274-749-4.

Investigation Resources

International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, 2nd Edition

The Torture Reporting Handbook, 2nd Edition

The Global Code of Conduct for Gathering and Using Information about Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (the Murad Code)

Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Additional Resources

UN SRSG SVC Model Legislative Provisions and Legislative Guidance on the Investigation and Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 

Sarkarati and Roberts, The Importance of Mass Trauma Evidence in Accountability before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Chapter 10, especially Annex I re Information to Include in a Report or Outline for Expert Testimony, in CAMBODIA’S HIDDEN SCARS: TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY CHAMBERS OF THE COURTS OF CAMBODIA, 2d ed. (Spring, 2016).

Resources specific to the Kenya context:

Report of the Committee of the Judicial Service Commission on the Establishment of an International Crimes Division in the High Court of Kenya, 30 October 2012.

Hansen, Complementarity in Kenya? An analysis of the Domestic Framework for International Crimes Prosecution, 2015.

Hansen, The Policy Requirement in Crimes Against Humanity: Lessons from and for the Case of Kenya , 2011.

Resources specific to the Myanmar context can be found on PJI’s Access to Justice in Myanmar page.