Seeking human rights justice in Latin America : truth, extra-territorial courts, and the process of justice / Jeffrey Davis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
2014
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Title
Seeking human rights justice in Latin America : truth, extra-territorial courts, and the process of justice / Jeffrey Davis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KG574 .D38 2014
ISBN
9780521514361 (hardback : alk. paper)
0521514363 (hardback : alk. paper)
0521514363 (hardback : alk. paper)
Description
xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)840927800
Summary
"This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the Inter-American human rights system. These extra-territorial courts can jumpstart the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases."--pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Building Justice from Truth -- The Process Begins
1
The Case of the Jesuits
1
Denial and Institutional Impunity
11
Seeking Justice for Human Rights Violations
18
The Jesuits Case -- Reaching beyond the State
22
Impunity under the Mask of Forgiveness
23
Questions Asked by the Jesuits Case - Methods, Research Questions, and Outline of the Book
26
The Accomarca Massacre -- The Process Begins
30
Search for the Truth
33
2.
Reconstituting Human Dignity and the Process of Legal Justice
38
The Mendez Case and Entrenched Guatemalan Impunity
38
Transitional Justice as More than a Legal Result
41
Legal Justice as a Multifaceted Process
46
Restoring Human Dignity
51
A Process to Restore Dignity
59
3.
Truth and the Process of Justice
65
The Gudiel Cases
65
Truth and the Process of Justice
67
Without Truth, Impunity
71
Truth and Dignity
76
Truth as Justice
80
Missing Children Cases -- Serrano Cruz Sisters
83
Missing Children Cases -- The Gelman Case
86
4.
The Foundation of Justice: The Rights to Truth and Information
90
The Right to Truth
90
The Foundations of the Right to Truth
91
The Inter-American System
92
Development and Expansion of the Right
95
The European Court of Human Rights
98
Treaties and International Agreements
102
The United Nations
104
Customary International Law
106
Obstacles to the Right to Truth
107
Defining the Right -- The Right to Information
111
5.
Moving the Process and Proving the Truth
117
Uncovering and Proving the Truth
117
The Engine of the Process -- Nongovernmental Organizations
117
The Garcia Case and the Founding of the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo
120
Truth Commissions
126
Secret Documents
129
Secret Documents -- The Edgar Fernando Garcia Case
141
Uncovering Secret Documents around the World
148
Using Secret Documents to Excavate the Truth
152
Conclusion
156
6.
Exposing the Truth and Jump-Starting the Process in Extra-Territorial Courts
157
Unlocking the Process
157
The Inter-American Human Rights System
160
The Diario Militar Case, Gudiel v. Guatemala, in the Inter-American System
161
The Decision of the Inter-American Court
165
The Decision of the Inter-American Court in Fernando Garcia and Family v. Guatemala
172
Bringing Human Rights Cases from Latin America in the United States
175
The Rondon Case and Obstacles to Extra-Territorial Legal Justice
178
Bringing Latin American Cases before Spanish National Courts
185
The Guatemala Genocide Case
185
The Jesuits Case
192
7.
The Effect of Extra-Territorial Courts on the Process of Justice and Conclusion
194
Effect of Extra-Territorial Legal Action on the Process
194
Effect of the Cases in Spain
194
Moving the Process in Guatemala
195
Effect of U.S. Cases
201
Effect of Cases before the Inter-American Court
207
Receiving Testimony and Enshrining the Truth
207
Equipping Advocates to Advance the Process at Home
209
Condemning Human Rights Violations
213
Using Individual Cases to Address a Broad Class of Victims
214
The Process Establishes a Web of Accountability
216
Conclusion
219
Legal Justice Is a Process
219
Truth through Testimony
221
Truth through Documents
223
Human Rights Groups
224
Extra-Territorial Courts
225
Restoring Dignity
226
Index
229