• Yugoslavia: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created in 1993 to deal with the war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the early 1990’s.
• Rwanda: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was established in November 1994 by the UN Security Council in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious crimes committed between January 1st and December 31st 1994.

• Sierra Leone: In June 2000, Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking for help to try those responsible for crimes during Civil War that occured in the 1990's. The UN and Government of Sierra Leone signed an agreement establishing The Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2002.
• East Timor: The East Timor Tribunal was created in 2000 by the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) to try cases including murder, rape, and torture -- which took place in East Timor in 1999. The court sat from 2000 to 2006.
• Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in 1975 and killed more than a million people during four years of terror and misrule. In 1997, Cambodia established the Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity, but progress was slow. The government could not fully afford the tribunal. Several countries, including Canada, India and Japan, eventually came forward with extra funds. Under an agreement between Cambodia and the UN, the tribunal is composed of both local and international judges. In March 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan nominated seven judges for the trials of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.
• Lebanon: On February 14, 2005, a car bomb explosion killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in his convoy. In late 2005, the Government of Lebanon requested that the UN establish a tribunal to try those responsible for the attack. The UN Security Council endorsed an agreement to establish the Special Tribunal For Lebanon in 2007.

• South Africa: After the transition from apartheid, President Nelson Mandela and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu authorized a truth commission to study the effects of apartheid in that country. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa was set up in 1995. The TRC documented human rights abuses that occurred between 1960 and 1994. Witnesses were invited to talk about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.
  
  The TRC of South Africa is generally considered a success and had a large impact on the international community. It sharply contrasted the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Because of the perceived success of the reconciliatory approach in dealing with human-rights violations after political change, many other countries have instituted similar commissions and have modelled their rules and reports after the South African TRC as well as asked Bishop Tutu on several occasions to consult on the start-up of many other TRC's around the world.

Other TRC's:

• Argentina - National Commission for Forced Disappearances - to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations during the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process between 1976 and 1983.
• Canada - Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission - After their closing, Indian residential schools became notorious for allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. The commission will look at abuse as well as the negative impact of the schools' aim to forcibly assimilate Indian children.
• Chile - National Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture - both commissions encompass human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military rule under Augusto Pinochet, from 1973 to 1990.
• East Timor - Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (2001–2005); Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship (2005–2008)
• El Salvador - Commission on the Truth for El Salvador - a truth commission established by the UN to investigate and report on human rights abuses during the civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992).
• Fiji - Reconciliation and Unity Commission
• Ghana - National Reconciliation Commission - Ghana's post-independence history has been marred by authoritarian and military rule, with accompanying human rights abuses. Violations intensified under the four military regimes that ruled Ghana intermittently for more than 22 of the 27 years between 1966 and 1993. The Commission was mandated to focus its investigation on human rights violations that took place between 1957 and 1993, particularly on the periods of military rule.
• Guatemala - Historical Clarification Commission - the commission was ordered by the Oslo Accords of 1994 that sought to bring an end to the nation's three-decade-long Civil War, during which an estimated 200,000 people lost their lives. It found that Maya Native Americans accounted for 83% of the victims, and that 93% of the atrocities committed during the conflict had been the work of the armed forces.
• Kenya - Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission - Kenya’s December 2007 Presidential elections sparked a wave of violent clashes over allegations of electoral fraud. The protests broke along ethnic lines, causing greater civil unrest. Nearly 1,500 people were killed and almost 300,000 were forced to flee their homes. In 2008, the Kenyan Parliament unanimously passed the bill for creating the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed between the country’s independence in 1963 and the conclusion of the power-sharing deal of February 28, 2008.
• Liberia - Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Its mandate was to "promote national peace, security, unity and reconciliation" by investigating more than 20 years of civil conflict in the country and to report on gross human rights violations that occurred in Liberia between January 1979 and 14 October 2003.
• Morocco - Equity and Reconciliation Commission - the commission was created in 2004 by King Mohammed VI in order to reconciliate victims of human rights abuses and atrocities- committed by Makhzen (the governing elite) during the rule of King Hassan II (mainly the 1960s through the 1980s) which was marked by state violence against dissidents and democracy activists.
• Panama - Truth Commission - The Panama Truth Commission was mandated to investigate human rights violations perpetrated during the military dictatorships of Generals Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega between 1968 and 1989.
• Peru - Truth and Reconciliation Commission - The commission's mandate was to investigate assassinations, torture, disappearances, displacement, employment of terrorist methods and other violations attributable to the State, the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement between May 1980 and November 2000 during the administrations of former Presidents Fernando Belaunde (1980 - 1985), Alan Garcia (1985 - 1990) and Alberto Fujimori (1990 - 2000).
• Philippines - In 2010, President Aquino announced that a Truth Commission will be formed to investigate unresolved issues concerning the previous administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. On June 30, 2010, President Aquino signed Executive Order No. 1, creating the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010.
• Sierra Leone - Truth and Reconciliation Commission - In 1990, President Joseph Saidu Momoh amended the constitution of Sierra Leone to allow multiple political parties to participate in elections, but the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) vehemently opposed multiparty politics and fought for control of the government -- and control of the country’s diamond industry. The RUF was known for its terror tactic of physical mutilations, rape, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission produced a report on human rights violations beginning in 1991.
• Solomon Islands - Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• South Korea - Truth and Reconciliation Commission - set up to investigate incidents regarding human rights abuses, violence, and massacres occurring since Japanese rule to the present time, specifically during the nation’s authoritarian regimes.