Report on Impunity Watch Panel Discussion

Transitional justice: are we ticking the boxes when we should be joining the dots?

Café Dudok, The Hague, 15 December 2009

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Report on Impunity Watch Expert Debate

1 July 2009, Amsterdam: Remembering the Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: Do war memorials unite or divide?
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Dealing with Impunity in Serbia - Options and Obstacles

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Serbia, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed by the Serbian state and citizens during the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution during the 1990s.
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Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Guatemala, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed during its long civil war.
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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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Impunity Watch Research Instrument

This Impunity Watch tool offers a basic framework for researching the state of accountability in post-conflict societies.
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NEWS ARCHIVE

Wife of Guatemalan Ombudsman kidnapped and tortured

03/04/2009 - On 25 March Gladys Monterroso, the wife of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales, was kidnapped and tortured. She was snatched from outside a restaurant by three armed men in balaclavas and held for 20 hours before being dumped on the outskirts of the city. Morales appeared in front of the press in tears the following day to provide information about the attack, which follows a recent upsurge in threats and intimidation against staff of the Ombudsman’s office.

The office had just made public a police archive discovered in Guatemala City, covering the period 1975 - 1985 and thought to contain proof of the illegal detention, torture and execution of civilians by state security forces. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has asked the government to take immediate action and issued an urgent press statement this week.

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