Written by Katya Salazar and Daniel Cerqueira, this article constitutes a chapter of the book "The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System Transformations on the Ground." It proposes a conceptual differentiation between the impact and compliance of decisions issued by supranational human rights bodies.
[October 16, 2018] This month marks two years since a judge in El Salvador re-opened the criminal investigation into the El Mozote massacre, one of the worst atrocities in modern Latin American history.
This article proposes that, since the amnesty law of El Salvador was invalidated by a constitutional decision in July 2016, the country faces a new historical, political and legal opportunity to address the impunity of serious crimes committed during the armed conflict that took place between 1980 and 1992. Improvements in accountability for past atrocities would benefit the fight against impunity of the present.
This report, titled Challenging the Amnesty Law in El Salvador: Domestic and International Alternatives to Bring an End to Impunity, analyzes El Salvador's post-conflict process, which lacks a comprehensive approach to guarantee truth, justice, reparation, and non-recurrence.
This report examines the selection process for Guatemala's attorney general, noting that increased regulation over this process does not mean less arbitrariness.
This bulletin, jointly produced by the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), and the Open Society Justice Initiative, seeks to bring greater transparency to the selection process for a new Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Even after several decades of judicial reforms and international assistance for judiciaries, judicial independence, transparency, and more in general, the quality of the administration of justice in Central America still leave much to be desired. A variety of initiatives have been undertaken, and a lot of money has been invested—without tangible results. This indicates that it is necessary to think out of the box as regards approaches to improve judicial independence in Central America.
