Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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.
Showing 100 events • Click to view details • Drag to pan, scroll to zoom • Powered by Vis.js
Photos & Videos 9
Budget cuts to the Reparations Council affect registration of 280,000 relatives of victims.
The Truth Commission Report has not been made effective in terms of reparations
Interview with Marusia Ruiz - Unique Victims Registry
In Abancay the fifth anniversary of the delivery of the CVR Final Report is commemorated.
Apurímac government submits to the Reparations Council the list of victims of the internal armed conflict in the region
The anger in the eye. Interview
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Truth as a process
Social exclusion and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Documents 50
The Repared Scholarship: Opportunity and Right in the Education Reparations Program
Research measuring how the Repared scholarship program has been functioning — a program that covers higher, technical, and university education studies at public and private institutions in Peru for victims …
Urgent: Office for Disappeared Persons – Opinion Column
Thirty years waiting for the State to seriously undertake the search for more than 15,000 Peruvians who disappeared at the hands of the military or were killed by terrorists between …
Ayacucho: Prosecutor's Office Handed Over 58 Bodies of Victims from the Terrorism Era
The Minister of Justice, Marisol Pérez Tello, participated in the ceremony for the handover of 58 bodies of victims from the period of terrorism to their families in Huamanga (department …
CASE OF CRUZ SÁNCHEZ AND OTHERS VS. PERU. JUDGMENT OF APRIL 17, 2015
The Court considers that in the present case it is not pertinent to order the payment of economic compensation for non-pecuniary damages on account of the violation of the right …
Chavín de Huántar Case: Inter-American Court Does Not Order Payment of Reparations
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte IDH) ruled against the Peruvian State in the Chavín de Huántar Case. Despite this, the ruling does not order the payment of economic …
Unified Victims Registry. Amicus Curiae
The IDEHPUCP prepared an amicus curiae that was submitted in the popular action proceedings against Supreme Decree No. 051-2011-PCM. This regulation established, through its article 1, the closure of the …
CVR: For a Memory That Liberates Us
Eleven years have passed since the presentation of the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. The time elapsed has not dissolved but, on the contrary, has …
Toward the 'Para-Judicialization' of Truth Commissions in the Region?
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has underscored the role of truth commission reports in Latin America in establishing the facts that constitute the violation of a right, affirming the …
"You May Be Able to Fool Me, But Lima Will Be Watching You, Evaluating You. Lima Decides." An Ethnographic Look at the Comprehensive Reparations Program
This article constitutes a progress report of the research project "Reparando ciudadanías: estrategias y sentidos de reconocimiento en Ayacucho post-CVR," which has been underway since January 2013 thanks to funding …
Executive Summary of Ombudsman Report No. 162: TEN YEARS OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND REPARATION. Progress, Setbacks, and Challenges of an Unfinished Process
Defensorial Report No. 162 accounts for the efforts undertaken after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as the difficulties, advances, and setbacks in the process of truth, justice, and …
The Ambiguities of the CVR's Final Report in Explaining the Causes and Dynamics of the Internal Armed Conflict
In this text the author argues that the IF of the CVR failed to articulate a coherent discourse in explaining the causes and dynamics of the internal armed conflict, and …
There Are CVR Report Tasks That Have Not Been Fulfilled
A decade after the delivery of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), many tasks remain to be fulfilled. This is demonstrated by the assessment carried out …
The Disappeared: A False Dispute Between Humanitarian and Judicial Objectives
In our country there is a discrepancy between our perception of the needs of the relatives of disappeared persons and the actions we have proposed on their behalf. It is …
Lerner Febres: "Without Justice or Memory There Is No Reconciliation"
The former president of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), Salomón Lerner Febres, reflects on the relevance of the report ten years after its delivery, and acknowledges the progress made …
Reparation for Victims of the Armed Conflict in Peru: The Voice of the Victims
The Instituto de Defensa Legal, through its Governance and Rights Area, publishes this study on the perceptions of victims of political violence regarding the reparations process, in the communities of …
An Assessment Across Several Timeframes
The CVR's Final Report captures not only the results of two years of investigations, interviews with more than 17,000 people, public hearings, and debate; it also synthesized a long process …
Reparations: How Much Longer Must Victims Wait?
In July 2005, after many years, the State decided to fulfill its commitment to provide reparations to the thousands of civilian, police, and military victims left by the most painful …
Campaign to Repeal Executive Decree 051 That Cancels the Registration of Victims of the Political Violence Suffered During the Years 1980 and 2000
Documents related to the campaign organized by the Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Afectados por la Violencia Política (CONAVIP) to repeal D.S. 051, which cancels the registration of victims of …
Family and Intergenerational Transmission of Memories of the Internal Armed Conflict in Ayacucho
The work presented below is the product of a joint effort by the Grupo Memoria at the IEP, with students from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional …
Request to Amend Executive Decree 051-PCM-11 and Approve a Budget to Enable Implementation of the PIR
The Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Afectados por la Violencia Política (CONAVIP) requests that President Ollanta Humala Tasso amend D.S. 051-PCM-11 and approve a budget that makes it possible to …
Reparations: How Much Longer Must Victims Wait?
In July 2005, after many years, the State decided to fulfill its commitment to provide reparations to the thousands of civilian, police, and military victims left by the most painful …
CAMPAIGN TO REPEAL SUPREME DECREE 051
Decree D.S. 051 cancels the registration of victims of political violence that we suffered during the years 1980 and 2000. This decree contravenes previous laws, which, combined with the delay …
How Much Has Been Repaired in Our Communities? Progress, Perceptions, and Recommendations on Collective Reparations in Peru (2007-2011)
This report covers four years (2007–2011) of implementation of the Collective Reparations Program (PRC) as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR) for victims of Peru's internal armed conflict, which …
Progress and Challenges in Reparations for Victims of Political Violence. Governance and Human Rights
Several years after the enactment of the law creating the Comprehensive Reparations Plan — PIR, Law No. 28592 (July 2005) — and its Regulations (Supreme Decree No. 015-2006-JUS), and with …
INSENSITIVE APRISTA GOVERNMENT ONCE AGAIN MOCKS THE VICTIMS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY
We regret that, rather than convening us to discuss and approve reparations proposals within the body responsible for reparations guidelines and policies — namely the CMAN — the decision must …
Topics in Criminal Law and Human Rights Violations
This publication presents a series of articles related to the process of truth, justice, and reparation involving victims of the period of violence that occurred in Peru between 1980 and …
Reparations: Balance 2006–2011
At the end of Alan García's government the author takes stock of the reparations process. 1. A complex design for a new issue 2. The Registro Único de Víctimas (RUV) …
Democratic Governance and Political Party Systems
This thesis entitled "Democratic Governance and the Political Party System: Responsibility of Political Organizations in the Construction of National Reconciliation through the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Comisión de …
Victims' Pilgrimage for Reparations Continues
Organizations of relatives and those affected by political violence in Ayacucho, the southern Andean region that was the epicenter of the fight against the insurgency between 1980 and 2000 in …
Fourth Annual Report of the Reparations Council (October 2009 – October 2010)
Almost immediately after the period began, budget constraints forced the Consejo de Reparaciones to dispense with nearly all of the Technical Secretariat staff, which interrupted the work of qualifying and …
The Danger of the Museum of Memory
The museum faces a risk — one that does not come from the right-wing opposition led by Rafael Rey, nor from the military leadership, nor from those who see any …
And What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
This case study book, under the intellectual leadership of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), sheds light on …
UNIQUE VICTIMS REGISTRY, UP TO 65,536
This registry, up to victim 65,536, surpasses the previous figure of 41,650.
How to Quantify Pain? Contributions for Individual Economic Reparations for Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict
A publication containing the reflections, experiences, and recommendations of a group of experts who have systematized knowledge about economic reparation processes carried out in Latin America and the various aspects …
Situation of Women Who Have Received Collective Reparation. Third Collective Reparations Monitoring Report
Once again, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in alliance with the International Center for Transitional Justice – ICTJ, is pleased to present the results of the monitoring study …
Linking Gender and Reparations in Peru: A Missed Opportunity
This article addresses the situation of women during and after the internal armed conflict, as well as the role of women in the articulation of reparations, and constitutes Chapter 3 …
The Cry of the Innocent.
The survivors of the Castro Castro prison massacre have been acquitted by Peruvian justice and granted reparations by the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, but to this day they have …
Local Reparation Policies in Ayacucho. Reparations Without Repairers?
This research seeks to explain the origins of reparations policies for victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru in four municipalities of the department of Ayacucho, understood as rare …
Relatives Demand Punishment for Military Personnel Implicated in the Death of an Ayacuchan Farmer
After 19 years since his disappearance, the family members of farmer Bernabé Baldeón García demanded justice in front of the Superior Court of Justice of Ayacucho, as well as exemplary …
Executive Allocates S/. 4 Million in Favor of Those Affected by Terrorism
Head of State Alan García Pérez transferred 3,998,904 soles to 28 local governments to carry out works in 7 regions of the country in favor of residents whose human rights …
They Ask the Government to Comply with the Delivery of Individual Reparations
The reparations delivered by the central government to those affected by political violence are limited to collective infrastructure and, to date, there are no updates on the announced individual indemnifications. …
National Monitoring Report of the Collective Reparations Program – Phase II
This report focuses on examining the progress of the second phase of the PRC, given that it is the component of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan that reports the most progress …
After 25 Years, Putis Victims Will Finally Be Buried with Dignity
Under the motto "Justice and solidarity for Putis, a dignified burial," the families of the victims of the Putis massacre — which took place in Ayacucho in December 1984 — …
Reparations with a Gender Perspective
This document aims to develop certain criteria and recommendations based on lessons learned from concrete cases, in order to achieve reparations that take a gender perspective into account in cases …
The State Has a Great Pending Debt with Ayacucho
Former president of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, Salomón Lerner, stated that the State has a great debt toward Ayacucho and lamented that, to date, little progress has …
The CVR's Figures by Farid Matuk
Several years have now passed, and despite the fact that the list of registries is publicly accessible, no one has produced an alternative measurement to the one carried out by …