Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the Barrios Altos case, declaring that the amnesty laws enacted in Peru lack legal effect because they are incompatible with the American Convention. The judgment established that amnesty, statutes of limitation and exclusion of liability provisions that seek to …
On November 3, 1997, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the Ernesto Castillo-Páez case, ruling that Peru violated the right to life, liberty and personal integrity, judicial protection and failed to comply with its obligations to respect and guarantee the rights of Ernesto Castillo-Páez, who had …
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