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NEWS ARCHIVE

IW’s Report on impunity in Guatemala to be launched

29/11/2008 - Impunity Watch is to launch ‘Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala’, its comprehensive report on impunity for crimes committed during the Guatemalan civil war, at a special event on December 2.

The event, to be held in Guatemala City’s Hotel Radisson, marks the completion of two year’s research, conducted in partnership with the Centre for Legal Action in Human Rights (CALDH), the Mayan Centre for Documentation and Research (CEDIM) and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Criminal Law in Guatemala (ICCPG), into the root causes underlying Guatemala’s failure to achieve truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition for the gross violations of international law committed during the conflict that raged there from 1962 until 1996.

Already this autumn, the draft report was the subject of consultations with a wide range of state and non-state groups, from which recommendations for policy changes were drawn. These, published in an executive summary of the full research report, shall be distributed at the December 2 event and debated by a panel representing victims, experts, the government, the international community, the United Nations and the Guatemalan Impunity Watch consortium. The panel, moderated by Ricardo Stein, shall include:

Antonio Caba, President of the Association of Victims and Reconciliation, which has filed a case for genocide within the Guatemalan justice system;
Orlando Blanco, head of the Government’s Secretariat of Peace, SEPAZ;
Alvaro Pop, well-known Guatemalan political analyst;
Teunis Kamper, Dutch Ambassador to Guatemala;
Anders Kompas, Head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala;
Claudia Paz, Director of ICCPG and member of the IW Consortium.

Prior to the debate, Mario Minera, Executive Director of CALDH, shall explain the importance of the Impunity Watch programme in Guatemala, Claudia Paz shall present the new research report and the UN’s Andreas Kompass shall provide his reactions to the findings. The event shall be closed by Jose Serech, Director of CEDIM.

To download a copy of the Executive Summary to ‘Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala’ in Spanish, click here.

The full report and Executive Summary will be available on this website in February, in both Spanish and English. Check the IW website regularly, or send your email to sanne.weber@impunitywatch.org to ensure you receive a copy.

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