Ratification of Rome Statute by Guatemalan Congress

Impunity Watch welcomes the ratification of the Rome Statute by the Guatemalan Congress and additionally welcomes the recent progress achieved in the Ixil Genocide case.
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Breaking the wave: critical steps in the fight against crime in Guatemala

New report points to critical steps that must be taken for Guatemala to overcome its plague of criminal violence.
Impunity Watch and the Conflict Research Unit of the Clingendael Institute today jointly publish a major new report detailing the immense challenges faced by the Guatemalan criminal justice system as a new right-wing government takes power in the country.

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One vacancy at IW

IW is looking for a Research Coordinator (Principal Researcher) for our Burundi Programme, based in Burundi.
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Santa Lucía book presentation

On 25 September 2011 IW and Solidaridad presented a remembrance book in the "Doopsgezinde kerk" in Haarlem. The book tells the story of 30 men and women from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala who disappeared or were killed during the 36-year internal conflict.
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Understanding The Role Of Memory Initiatives In Communities Struggling With Impunity

Debating in the Netherlands
with youth, experts and policy-makers
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The Persistence of Truth

This report looks at progress in truth-seeking and the combat of impunity in Guatemala ten years after its UN-backed truth comission, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), published its findings on the events of the internal armed confrontation of 1960-96.
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NEWS ARCHIVE

IW Serbia Joins Regional Youth Conference

20/11/2008 - In light of the key role young people can have in challenging the norms, values and beliefs that allow grave violations of international law to occur with impunity, Impunity Watch helped its partners, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, organise the Regional Youth Conference on Facing the Past.

Held on November 20 in Belgrade, the event’s aim was to initiate a regional debate among youth organisations from the Western Balkans on attitudes towards facing the past and activism for accountability.

The participants concluded that youth organisations, by strengthening their links across the region and focusing on unique goals, can exert pressure on their governments to establish the truth about crimes committed between 1991 and 2000 and the destiny of over 17,000 persons still missing. The importance of the RECOM initiative, which seeks to establish a regional truth-finding commission, was stressed, with the caveat that it should not be seen as an alternative to war crimes prosecutions.

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