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Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Civil Conflict: Lessons Learned from Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador

As transitional justice has become both a global idea and a global practice, there is an increasing need to better understand not only the design and implementation of transitional justice mechanisms, but their impact and significance as well. Any such effort requires an examination of the specific mechanisms of transitional justice, as well as the broader political context that gives shape to these mechanisms and their implementation.

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IACHR – Inputs to the Questionnaire for the thematic report on Business and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards

For many years, various organizations that comprise the Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) of the International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) have been working collectively to demonstrate how certain corporate activity can undermine human rights and harm communities and groups affected by their operations.

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The Inter-American Human Rights System: Changing times, ongoing challenges

This report, titled The Inter-American Human Rights System: Changing times, ongoing challenges, examines recent intense debate over the rule of the Inter-American Human Rights System. 

At the heart of the discussions was precisely the purpose of international human rights protection and its sometimes conflictual coexistence with the sovereign decisions of democratic States. This led some nations to assert the need for the IACHR to prioritize its role of promotion, rather than its actions for protection and ensuring individual and collective rights. 

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