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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IW Serbia Impunity Research Report to be launched

01/12/2008 - Impunity Watch is set to launch new findings and policy recommendations on impunity for grave crimes against international law in Serbia.

“Dealing with Impunity in Serbia – Options and Obstacles” represents the culmination of two years’ intensive work with its partners, the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (HCS).

This unique document, to be presented at the Belgrade Media Centre on December 16, provides new insight into the issue which has plagued Serbia’s development, and influenced that of the entire former Yugoslav region, for so long. The event will feature a questions and answer session on the report and its implications with IW, its partners and representatives of Serbian and international authorities.

In light of the growing movement to establish a regional truth commission for crimes committed in the region during the 1990s, Marlies Stappers, IW’s Director, and Marijana Toma, IW’s Serbia Project Coordinator, shall speak the following day at a meeting of the RECOM initiative's members in Fruska Gora, describing experiences of truth commissions in Guatemala, the other country in which IW is currently running a comprehensive programme.

To learn more about the event, and to receive a copy of the report and policy recommendations, check IW’s website or write to IW’s Serbia Programme Manager Ljiljana Hellman.

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