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

Expert Meeting report Memory, Truth and Justice

24/01/2011 - On 15 September 2010, Impunity Watch, the Anne Frank House and the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted an expert meeting on ‘Memory, Truth and Justice’, seeking to explore the relationship between criminal justice, impunity and memorialisation.

This was the second in a series of events on memorialisation and the combat of impunity for international crimes, which forms part of a joint research project of Impunity Watch and the Anne Frank House. Attended by 45 experts from different fields and backgrounds, the expert meeting provided a forum for experts, students and policymakers based in the Netherlands to further develop understanding and analysis of Memorialisation as an element of post-conflict societies, and pinpoint areas in need of further study.

To learn more about the discussions, click here to download the expert meeting report.

This project receives generous funding from Hivos.

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