| 单词 | truth and reconciliation commission |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTruth and Reconciliation Commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission n. (also with lower-case initials) [originally after Spanish Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación, the name of a commission created on 25 April 1990 to investigate deaths and disappearances for political reasons in Chile under the rule of Augusto Pinochet (compare quot. 1990)] Politics an official body charged with the investigation of claims of human rights abuses, esp. during a previous government or regime; abbreviated TRC (see TRC n. at T n. Additions).Most commonly referring to the commission set up by a South African Parliamentary Act on 26 July 1995 (see quot. 1995) to investigate claims of such abuses during the apartheid era. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > commission > other types of commission conservacy1434 conservice1571 conservation1580 conservancy1618 Royal Commission1747 county commission1763 railroad commission1855 Audit Commission1866 European Commission1956 Countryside Commission1964 Truth and Reconciliation Commission1990 Truth Commission1991 1990 N.Y. Times 3 June 6/1 The nine-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission named in April by President Patricio Aylwin [of Chile] is charged with being ‘the moral conscience of the nation’. 1995 Promotion of National Unity & Reconciliation Act in Juta's Statutes S. Afr. (1997) I. 2-398 To provide for the investigation and the establishment of as complete a picture as possible of the nature, causes and extent of gross violations of human rights..to provide for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 25/1 The controversial work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has spawned a number of bold and imaginative theatrical ventures in the post-apartheid period. 2006 UMass Amherst Fall 37/1 I was no stranger to transitional justice... I studied the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。