• All Africa
• BBC News
• Center for Media, Information, and Technology
• Relief Web
• Sierra Leone News
• United Nations Intergrated Regional Information Networks 
• United Nations News Service

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• Special Court for Sierra Leone
• United Nations Development Program-Sierra Leone (UNDP)
  United Nations High Comissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)
• United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL)

Organizations working on Sierra Leone

• American Refugee Committee
• American University War Crimes Research Office
• Campaign for Good Governance
• Center for Media, Education and Technology (CMET)
• Center for Victims of Torture 
• Coalition for International Justice (CIJ) 
• Global Rights
• Global Witness
• Human Rights First
• Human Rights Watch 
• iEarn Sierra Leone
• International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) 
• International League for Human Rights  
• National Accountability Group (NAG)
• Network Movement for Justice and Development 
• Open Society Justice Initiative 
• Partnership Africa Canada
• Prosthetics Outreach Foundation
• Search for Common Ground
• Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme

Sierra Leone Government

• Office of the President
• Anti-Corruption Commission
• National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA)
• Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project
• Development Assistance Coordination Office (DACO)

Other

• Institute for Security Studies
• Project on International Courts and Tribunals
• Sierra Leone Encyclopedia 2004
• Sierra Leone Web
• U.S. Embassy
• Powerpoint Presentation

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• Gender-Based Violence Legal Aid: A Participatory Toolkit
• Community Safety Initiative Gender-Based Violence Program
• Legal Aspects of Violence Against Refugee Women in Kissidougou Town and Albadariah Camps
• An Overview of the Fern Holland Legal Aid Clinic
  

Amnesty International

• Sierra Leone: Women Face Abuses in the Informal Legal Sector, March 2006
• Sierra Leone: The Call for Tough Arms Control, January 2006
• Sierra Leone: No One to Turn to: Women's Lack of Access to Justice in Rural Sierra Leone, December 2005
• Special Court for Sierra Leone: Statement to the National Victims Commemoration Conference, March 2005.
• Special Court for Sierra Leone: Denial of Right to Appeal and Prohibition of Amnesties for Crimes Under International Law, November 2003
• Guinea and Sierra Leone: No Place of Refuge, October 2001
• Sierra Leone: Renewed Committment Needed to End Impunity, September 2001.

Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

• Annual Report: Sierra Leone, 2002

Campaign for Good Governance

• Decentralization Watch Bulletin, Campaign for Good Governance, May 2006
• Report on Basic Education in Sierra Leone, Campaign for Good Governance, March 2006
• Western Area Elections Report, Campaign for Good Governance, 15 March 2006
• Report on the State of Attainment of Food Security by 2007, Campaign for Good Governance, September 2005.
• Berewa, 2007, and the Battle of the Titans, Campaign for Good Governance, 14 September 2005.
• Strategic Plan 2005-2010, Campaign for Good Governance, April 2005.
• Report on the Government's Fight Against Corruption in Sierra Leone, Campaign for Good Governance, 2004. 
• Silent Victims, Young Girls at Risk, Campaign for Good Governance, December 2004 (PDF, 56 pages)
• Penal Reform Needed: A Pilot Survey of the Penal System in Freetown, Campaign for Good Governance, 2004 (PDF, 26 pages)
• Opinion Poll Report on the TRC and Special Court, Campaign for Good Governance, July 2004 (PDF, 14 pages) 

The Carter Center

• Observing the 2002 Sierra Leone Elections: Final Report, The Carter Center, May 2003. (PDF 56 pages) 

Coalition for International Justice

• Following Taylor's Money: A Path of War and Destruction, May 2005.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soliders

• Girls Formerly Associated with Fighting Forces and their Children Returned and Neglected, January 2006.

Columbia University (in partnership with PRIDE)

• What the Fighters Say: A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein, CGSD Working Paper No. 20, August 2004 (PDF, 47 pages)

Conciliation Resources

• Paying the Price: The Sierra Leone Peace Process, Conciliation Resources, September 2000.
• Lome is Dead! Long Live Lome! Conciliation Resources, August 2000.

Freedom House

• Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Democratic Governance, Freedom House, 2004. (PDF 18 pages) 

Global Witness

• Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy, June 2005.
• A Few Dollars More: How al Qaeda Moved into the Diamond Trade, Global Witness, April 2003. (PDF 98 pages)
• Conflict Diamonds: Possibilities for the Identification, Certification and Control of Diamonds, Global Witness, 2000. (PDF 42 pages)
• Broken Vows: Exposing the "Loupe" Holes in the Diamond Industry's Efforts to Prevent the Trade in Conflict Diamonds, Global Witness, March 2004. (PDF 40 pages)

 Human Rights Watch

• Justice in Motion: The Trial Phase of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch, November 2005.
• Youth, Poverty and Blood: The Lethal Legacy of West Africa's Regional Wars, April 2005.
• Bringing Justice: the Special Court for Sierra Leone's Accomplishments, Shortcomings, and Needed Support, September 2004.
• We’ll Kill You If You Cry: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict, Human Rights Watch, January 2003
• The Jury is Still Out: a Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch, 2002.
• Human Rights Watch Policy Paper On The Interrelationship Between The Sierra Leone Special Court And Truth And Reconciliation Commission, Human Rights Watch, 2002.   
• Sowing Terror: Atrocities against Civilians in Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch, 1998.
• Bringing Justice: the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch, 8 September 2004.

Humanitarian Accountability Project (HAP)

• Agency Self-Assessment About Transparency and Accountability in Sierra Leone, HAP, 2002 (PDF, 59 pages)
• Promoting Transparency and Accountability: Field Trial in Sierra Leone, HAP, 2002 (PDF, 37 pages)
• Evaluation Report: The Humanitarian Accountability Project, First Trial in Sierra Leone, HAP, 2002 (PDF, 42 pages)

International Center for Transitional Justice

• The Special Court for Sierra Leone under Scrutiny, ICTJ, March 2006 (PDF, 56 pages)
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone: The First Eighteen Months, ICTJ, March 2004 (PDF, 14 pages)
• The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Reviewing its First Year, ICTJ, January 2004 (PDF, 8 pages)
• Report on ICTJ/UNDP Project on the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, ICTJ, September 2003 (PDF, 30 pages)
• Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Special Court: A Citizen’s Handbook, National Forum for Human Rights and ICTJ, March 2003 (PDF, 58 pages)
• Ex-Combatant Views of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Court of Sierra Leone in Sierra Leone, PRIDE and ICTJ, 2002 (PDF, 72 pages) 
• Exploring the Relationship Between the Special Court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, ICTJ, June 2002. (PDF 22 pages)

 International Crisis Group (ICG)

• Liberia and Sierra Leone: Rebuilding Failed States, ICG, December 2004
• Sierra Leone: The State of Security and Governance, ICG, 2003 
• The Special Court for Sierra Leone: Promises and Pitfalls of a “New Model,” ICG, 2003
• Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Fresh Start? ICG, 2002
• Sierra Leone After Elections: Politics as Usual? ICG, 2002
• Sierra Leone: Ripe for Elections? ICG, 2001
• Sierra Leone: Managing Uncertainty, ICG, 2001
• Sierra Leone: Time for a New Military and Political Strategy, ICG, 2001  

International League for Human Rights

• Kabala: A Besieged City, ILHR, 2001
• "Killer Bees" and Decrees: The Sierra Leone's Media Struggle for Survival, ILHR, 2001

New Tactics in Human Rights (a project of the Center for Victims of Torture)

• Rebuilding Communities: Training Trauma Survivors to Help Communities Heal after Atrocities, Neneh "Binta" Barry and Nancy L. Pearson, Center for Victims of Torture, Sierra Leone
• A Mock Tribunal to Advance Change: The National Tribunal on Violence Against Women in Nigeria, by Mufuliat Fijabi, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, Nigeria
• Promoting human rights professionalism in the Liberian police force, by Cecil Griffiths, Liberia National Law Enforcement Association (LINLEA), Liberia
• Powerful Persuasion: Powerful Persuasion: Combat Traditional Practices that Violate Human Rights, by Emile Short, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ghana
• Using Government Budgets as a Monitoring Tool: The Children’s Budget Unit in South Africa, by Lerato Kgamphe, Idasa/Children’s Budget Unit, South Africa
• Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology & Traditional Healing Rebuilding hope for child soldiers in post-war Mozambique, by Lucrecia Wamba, Rebuilding Hope, Mozambique
• I’ll Walk Beside You: Providing Emotional Support for Testifiers at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by Glenda Wildschut, Desmond Tutu Leadership Academy, South Africa

No Peace Without Justice

• Sierra Leone Project: Narrative Status Report, March 2003.
• Report on Defence Provision for the Special Court of Sierra Leone, NPWJ, 2003
• Report on the Special Court Rules of Procedure and Evidence Seminar, NPWJ and Sierra Leone Bar Association, 2002 
• Recommendations of the Government of Sierra Leone Task Force on Documentation and Conflict Mapping for the Special Court, Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice of Sierra Leone for the Special Court Task Force (with technical cooperation from NPWJ), 2002
• Report from the Lagoonda Conference on "Accountability Mechanisms for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Sierra Leone," organized by NPWJ with cooperation from the Government of Canada, European Union and Open Society Institute, February 2001 
• So, what is the Special Court and what does it intend to achieve in the end? Report from the Special Court training seminars, organized by NPWJ with cooperation from the Government of Canada, European Union and Open Society Institute, March 2001 
• Draft Lawyers’ Guide to the Special Court of Sierra Leone, NPWJ, March 2004 (PDF, 198 pages)  

 Partnership Africa-Canada (PAC)

• Diamond Industry Annual Review - Sierra Leone 2006, PAC and Network Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone, March 2006 (PDF, 12 pages)
• Diamond Industry Annual Review - Sierra Leone 2005, PAC and Network Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone, February 2005 (PDF, 12 pages)
• Diamond Industry Annual Review - Sierra Leone 2004, PAC and Network Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone, 2004. (PDF, 12 pages)
• Diamonds Without Maps: Liberia, the U.N., Sanctions and the Kimberly Process, PAC, June 2004. (PDF, 20 pages)
• War and Peace in