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Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
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The study examines women’s disappearances in central Mexico, linking gender, state, and criminal violence, and calls for better coordination and data sharing to strengthen search and justice efforts.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Information Policies Regarding State Responses to the Disappearance of Persons
The report reveals inconsistent, opaque state data on disappearances in Mexico, showing failures in justice, transparency, and accountability, and urging stronger public information policies to combat impunity and support victims’ rights.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Criminal Sentences in Cases of Enforced Disappearance at the Federal and State Levels
The report reviews 28 rulings on enforced disappearance in Mexico, revealing limited judicial action, weak investigations, and the need to strengthen courts’ roles in ensuring truth, justice, and victims’ rights.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Specialized Prosecutor’s Offices
The report examines Mexico’s specialized prosecutor’s offices on disappearances, highlighting systemic impunity, limited progress, and emerging collaboration between families, collectives, and authorities to strengthen justice.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on State Search Commissions
The report reviews Mexico’s State Search Commissions, created by the 2017 law on disappearances, highlighting progress and challenges in coordination, resources, and trust as they work to improve searches and access to truth and justice.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Comparative Report on Disappearance Events: “Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas (Northeast Region)”
Mexico faces a major human rights crisis of widespread disappearances. The Observatory on Disappearance and Impunity studies this issue locally to support truth, justice, and public policy efforts nationwide.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Disappearances in the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza
The report studies disappearances in Coahuila, revealing them as a complex social issue tied to Mexico’s war on drugs, involving multiple actors, and highlighting civil society’s role in truth, justice, and documentation efforts.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Disappearances in the State of Nuevo León Based on Information from CADHAC
Based on CADHAC’s work in Nuevo León, the report views disappearances as a complex social issue involving multiple actors, analyzes victims and state responses, and offers recommendations for truth, justice, and prevention.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America
This book examines contemporary disappearances in democratic Latin American countries, linking them to past authoritarian practices and highlighting legal, social, and civil responses to uphold truth, justice, and reparations.
Confessions to Violence
Confessions to intimate violence: FARC testimonies to sexual violations in the Colombian conflict
This article analyzes rare FARC confessions to sexual violence, tracing their shift from denial to remorse. Using a dramaturgical lens, it shows how these acts challenge silence, reshape narratives, and strengthen norms condemning sexual violence.
Confessions to Violence
Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath
This book examines the blurred boundaries between victims and perpetrators in mass violence, proposing a reflexive approach to justice and peacebuilding that embraces complex identities and overlapping roles in post-conflict contexts.
Confessions to Violence
The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies
This handbook maps the evolution of perpetrator studies, examining definitions, motives, guilt, and representation of those responsible for mass violence, and offering new interdisciplinary perspectives and directions for future research.
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