On May 10, 2013, a historic moment in international criminal justice occurred. General José Efraín Ríos Montt, de facto President of Guatemala who rose to power through a military coup d’etat in March 1982 and was deposed in August 1983,…
On December 21, 2017, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a report after an in loco visit to Guatemala, calling on the State of Guatemala to integrate into the community the people with disabilities detained at the Hospital…
On November 8, 2017, the War Crimes Research Office of Washington College of Law, the Ben Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the US Holocaust Museum, and the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), a multi-agency collaboration including the…
Comisionados: Rosa Maria Ortiz, James L. Cavallaro, Paulo Vannuchi Peticionarios: Oficina Penitenciaría de Argentina, CLADEM (Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer) (Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean for the…
Orlando López, el fiscal principal en el juicio contra José Efraín Ríos Montt y José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, preguntó a los peritos de la defensa el miércoles 10 de abril del 2013 si creían que Guatemala ha cumplido con sus…