36 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
In 2003, when the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) delivered its Final Report to the country, it estimated that the number of detained-disappeared persons in Peru between 1980 …
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 …
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists were killed in a frigid community on the Ayacuchan highlands. The whirlwind of violence then spreading across Peru suddenly engulfed those who had traveled …
It should be recalled that the amnesty laws were enacted in 1995 because of this case, as the existence of a military organization dedicated to killing people, and its connection …
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 …
The Tribunal Constitucional (TC) has just issued an important ruling on human rights matters. It concerns the resolution issued in case file No. 245-2007-Q/TC, dated December 14, 2007. This ruling …
The Tribunal Constitucional (TC) has just issued an important ruling on human rights matters. It concerns the resolution issued in case file No. 245-2007-Q/TC, dated December 14, 2007. This ruling …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, faced with the widespread practice of forced disappearances of persons in Latin American countries during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, primarily promoted by dictatorial …
During the turbulent years of the internal armed conflict that our country experienced, the human rights organizations grouped in the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos coined the phrase "Barbarism is …
On March 12 of this year, the Prosecutor of the Third Supraprovincial Prosecutor's Office of Lima, Dr. José Luis Azañero, filed criminal charges against 24 members of the Navy as …
The political and legal systems of Latin America have a history full of amnesties, owing both to the proliferation of armed conflicts and civil wars, and to a recurring practice …
Fear has returned to hundreds of Peruvians who suffered imprisonment on false accusations of belonging to the Maoist organization Sendero Luminoso or the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) during the …
Analysis of the actions of the Corte Interamericana regarding Peru. During the turbulent years of the internal armed conflict experienced by our country, the human rights organizations grouped in the …
Mónica Feria, a lawyer and survivor of the torture she suffered in 1992 during the prison massacre known as "Castro Castro" in Lima, Peru, has finally been granted reparations by …
In the Case of Penal Miguel Castro Castro, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights DECIDES: unanimously that the Peruvian State must, within a reasonable time, effectively investigate the facts denounced …
The Peruvian State must effectively investigate the facts of this case in order to identify, prosecute, and punish the material and intellectual perpetrators of the extrajudicial execution of Pedro Huilca …
Judgment of March 3, 2005 (Merits, Reparations and Costs). In this case the Court DECLARES: unanimously, that the controversy regarding the facts that gave rise to the present case has …
The human rights treaties signed by Peru are of singular importance for the configuration of the criminal justice system, since they form part of domestic law and carry constitutional rank, …
Former President Alan García Pérez (1985–1990) was found criminally responsible for the killing of approximately 270 rioting prisoners in three Lima prisons in 1986, revealed Julio Quintanilla, defender of the …
Through a petition submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 15, 1999, the non-governmental organizations Estudio para la Defensa de la Mujer (DEMUS), the Comité de América …
Amnesty and human rights: Regarding the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the "Barrios Altos" case. I. Background. II. Combating terrorism and human rights violations. III. The …
In the Barrios Altos case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues the present Judgment: 1. To accept the acknowledgment of international responsibility made by the Peruvian State. 2. To …
A press dossier with documentary evidence on the forced sterilizations that occurred during the government of Alberto Fujimori and that followed a state policy. The material was distributed at a …
Peru in democratic transition, under Valentín Paniagua and García Sayán, is promoting mechanisms to strengthen that system and democracy in general. The following interview, granted exclusively to ideele by Antonio …
Judgment of December 3, 2001 (Reparations and Costs). THE COURT DECIDES: unanimously, the amounts the State must pay for material damages and for expenses and costs to the persons implicated …
In the Barrios Altos case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights DECIDES: unanimously to approve, in the terms of the present Judgment, the reparations agreement signed on August 22, 2001 …
The massacre at the prisons in June 1986 was an event that shook the country. Not only were there more than 200 deaths, but there was also irreparable damage to …
Nine years after the Barrios Altos massacre, Pablo Livia, the first prosecutor in charge of the case, recounts how his judicial investigation was blocked, to the point that he was …
Nine years after the abominable massacre at Barrios Altos, perpetrated in November 1991 by Grupo Colina, Pablo Livia, the first prosecutor in charge of the case, recounts how his judicial …
The official account of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' request for a new trial — not for their release — for Chilean MRTA terrorists naturally caused displeasure; although those …
The Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, relying on Articles 67 of the American Convention on Human Rights and 29.2 and 58 of its Rules of Procedure, decides unanimously to dismiss …
By this ruling the Court decides that the State of Peru violated, to the detriment of María Elena Loayza Tamayo, the rights to personal liberty and personal integrity recognized in …
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