6 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
CONTENTS: Real politics in an electoral year / Women are the ones who will save Peruvian politics / VRAEM: The ghost of eradication / Discrimination, racism and violence among adolescents …
This thesis is a qualitative study that aims to address the response mechanisms developed by women in the Ayacucho region in response to the various problems generated by political violence, …
The 2008 edition of the Economic and Social Progress Report addresses the changing patterns of social inclusion and exclusion, one of the most pressing concerns facing governments in Latin America …
Genocide is the systematic killing of an ethnic or racial group by members of another group or race. Between 1980 and 1993, indigenous people (particularly Quechua speakers) experienced genocide carried …
A survey of our country's political effects, social consequences, and barely understood sufferings requires not only sustained, long-term work but also the reflective exchange of all spheres of society in …
The events of Uchuraccay — which include the deaths of 135 peasants — allow us to approach the divides that continue to distort Peruvian society. We suggest that the quasi-sacred …
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On September 28, 1984, the oral trial of the Uchuraccay trial began with great expectation in the courtroom of the Superior Court of Ayacucho. The only three defendants present were the detained peasants Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, who were Quechua speakers and required interpreters …
On August 11, 1984, Victor Rivas Ventura was kidnapped by a group of people in civilian clothes while he was at his home. He was arrested in the presence of his mother and sister. The kidnappers were hooded men, wearing ponchos, tall in stature. A neighbor reported that his brother …
In February 1984, General Huamán denied the recently elected mayor of Ayacucho, Leonor Zamora, the presence of the indigenous population in the open town meeting organized for that month. This decision was part of his strategy of 'isolation' that sought to keep the indigenous population away from possible subversive influences, …
The Peruvian State approved the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted by the UN in 1979) through Legislative Resolution No. 23432 dated June 4, 1982. This convention is one of the main international instruments for the protection of human rights ratified by Peru. The …