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EVENT | Human Rights and Grand Corruption: What Role for International Law?
Monday, December 3, 2018
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Inter-American Dialogue
1155 15th St NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
RSVP
*Livestream available*
Recent grand corruption scandals in Latin America provide ample evidence of corruption’s direct and negativ... More
EVENT | Search models for disappeared persons in Latin America: lessons learned and challenges
The Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), the Transitional Justice Observatory at Diego Portales University, Chile, and the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, with the support of the Heinrich Boll Foundation and Open Society Foundations
Wednesday, D... More
International organizations express their concern regarding the consequences of a possible decision that validates the constitutionality of the concept of "internal security" in Mexico
The organizations that make up the International Observatory on Mexico expressed their concern regarding the recently-published draft resolution by the Mexican Supreme Court on the issue, which finds that some articles of the law are unconstitutional, but also concludes that the concept of “internal security” is valid in Mexico. In this... More
El Salvador Truth Commission Archives and the Jesuits Case
Just days before the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Jesuit massacre case, a new development provides hope for justice for the six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, murdered by the Salvadoran military in San Salvador in 1989.
Their murders in the early hours of November 16, 1989, at the priests’ residence on the Central Ame... More
The El Mozote massacre trial: the decades-long search for justice in El Salvador continues
[October 16, 2018] This month marks two years since a judge in El Salvador re-opened the criminal investigation into the El Mozote massacre, one of the worst atrocities in modern Latin American history. Over the course of several days in December 1981, the US-trained Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadoran army murdered, tortured, and committed other... More
CONABÚSQUEDA begins its work responding to society and families searching for their loved ones
On September 14, 2018, the National Commission for the Search of Persons Disappeared during the armed conflict in El Salvador (CONABÚSQUEDA) held a solemn ceremony for the inauguration of its official headquarters and the start of its work.
CONABÚSQUEDA was created through Executive Decree No. 33 on August 21, 2017. Its mission is to... More
Infographic summarizes and systematizes Advisory Opinion on the environment and human rights of the Inter-American Court
Today, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), UNAM’s Observatory of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), and the Institute for Constitutional Studies of the State of Querétaro presented an infographic that summarizes Advis... More
Organizations reject attacks against CICIG and demand respect for the rule of law and judicial independence in Guatemala
The Americas, September 6, 2018.- On September 4, it was made public that the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, had decided to prohibit Commissioner Iván Velásquez Gómez from entering the country. This was in accordance with a recommendation of the National Security Council, which indicated that the head of the International Commission agai... More
Constitutional reform barring the “automatic transfer” of Mexico’s Attorney General to the new National Prosecutor’s Office: Important but insufficient to create a better institution
Barring the “automatic transfer” of Mexico’s current attorney general to the new National Prosecutor’s Office is a positive step forward, but additional constitutional and legal reforms are needed to guarantee the new institution’s ability to effectively prosecute crimes, reduce corruption and impunity, and ensure that... More
Honduras: International organizations send letter to Óscar Chinchilla on the investigation of the assassination of Berta Cáceres
Today, 12 international and national expert organizations in the defense of the rule of law, due process, and human rights sent a letter to Óscar Chinchilla, Attorney General of Honduras, denouncing numerous irregularities in the investigation of the assassination of Berta Cáceres on March 2, 2016.
“This situation generates ine... More