Video: Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador
In this video, victims of the armed civil conflict in El Salvador discuss their struggle for truth and justice.
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In this video, victims of the armed civil conflict in El Salvador discuss their struggle for truth and justice.
Watch below and subscribe to the DPLF YouTube channel here.
[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.
As transitional justice has become both a global idea and a global practice, there is an increasing need to better understand not only the design and implementation of transitional justice mechanisms, but their impact and significance as well. Any such effort requires an examination of the specific mechanisms of transitional justice, as well as the broader political context that gives shape to these mechanisms and their implementation.
This article proposes that, since the amnesty law of El Salvador was invalidated by a constitutional decision in July 2016, the country faces a new historical, political and legal opportunity to address the impunity of serious crimes committed during the armed conflict that took place between 1980 and 1992. Improvements in accountability for past atrocities would benefit the fight against impunity of the present.
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In this edition of AportesDPLF, we examine the current situation of human rights in Mexico.
This report, titled Challenging the Amnesty Law in El Salvador: Domestic and International Alternatives to Bring an End to Impunity, analyzes El Salvador's post-conflict process, which lacks a comprehensive approach to guarantee truth, justice, reparation, and non-recurrence.
This report presents various recommendations for the establishment of a selection and appointment procedure consistent with the standards and best practices on the selection of high-level judges in international and comparative law, and with comparative experiences in the composition of other criminal courts of transitional justice around the world, insofar as they may be applicable to the case of Colombia.
DPLF's new publication, authored by Professor Ximena Medellín, is a pioneering systematization of 23 Latin American judicial decisions on the rights of victims issued by courts in eight countries of the region: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. The judgments included in this volume reflect important developments in Latin American jurisprudence, which extend the scope of the jurisprudence of international courts.