Justice in transition, right to the truth and fight against impunity as essential elements for the international protection of human rights within the history of contemporary international criminal law

Abstract: The right to the truth in international law with precise supranational characteristics of even domestic dimensions of an individual and collective nature passes to an international jurisprudence that also takes into consideration truth commissions to address the issue of impunity and beyond. Dispersal of people, blank amnesties, clemency measures, failures of impunity, conditional methods of reconciliation coexist in a system of transitional democracy which deals with the right to the truth. In fact, it provides a precise recognition of this right as well as contributes to the evolution of the law at the national and international level. These are the points of a certainly not exhaustive analysis in a comparative way between history, the past and modern international law of the right to the truth, as an existing right, not new but now recognized by the international community, which finds space for investigation and ways to avoid leaving people unpunished, crimes and above all violations of human rights at a global level.