Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance [PDF]
, 2021 In November 2017, Mexico passed the General Law on Forced Disappearance, the first comprehensive legal measure of its kind to address the phenomenon of missing persons amidst rising insecurity. At the time of its enactment and after eleven years of extreme violence coinciding with the drug war, more than 35,000 people were considered officially ...
Cherinet, Alem
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Forced Disappearances, Indigenous Peoples and Socio-Environmental Conflict in Mexico [PDF]
CrimRxivCriminological research on forced disappearances is scarce despite the prevalence and seriousness of these phenomena and criminology's growing interest in mass atrocities. By focusing on forced disappearances in Mexico, we argue that the exploitation of the natural resources of indigenous peoples through extractivism and other ecologically harmful ...
Miguel Quintana-Navarrete +1 more
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Defining the Crime of Enforced Disappearance in Conformity with International Criminal Law: a New Frontier for Bangladesh [PDF]
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2015 Enforced disappearance is regarded as a state-sponsored heinous international crime and has recently emerged as a wide-spread issue in Bangladesh. The political opposition is currently the main target of forced disappearances, though apolitical citizens ...
Md. Raisul Islam Sourav
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The disappearance of 43 teacher-trainees in Mexico: An approach to critical discourse analysis in the press [PDF]
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales, 2017 A critical analysis of the press discourse in the covering of the disappearance of 43 young students in Guerrero (México) in September 2014 is suggested.
Carolina Robledo-Silvestre +1 more
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Absent bodies, present pasts : forced disappearance as historical injustice in the Peruvian highlands [PDF]
, 2021 Societies all over the world develop transitional justice strategies to face the legacies of civil war and dictatorship. Remembrance is a central feature of these strategies. The International Center for Transitional Justice states that ‘Victims of human
Eva Willems, Willems, Eva
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Variations on a Fugitive’s Song: The Performance of Disappearance and Forced Migration in Chile [PDF]
, 2010 This text could be read as if it were a four-part fugue, beginning with the exposition of a subject or motif that will be elaborated and developed in due course. The word fugue derives from the Latin fuga, which means the act of fl eeing or chasing; in the musical sense, voices may be said to chase one another in the course of a contrapuntal ...
Salazar Sutil, N
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The aftermath of enforced disappearance and concealment.
Torture, 2021 Introduction: The forced disappearance of peasants in the Paine commune, Chile, dates back to the first months after the coup in 1973. Ten years ago, as a result of a judicial investigation, the location of a mass grave was revealed to more than one ...
Nicolás Morales-Sáez, Joel Espina
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Revista del Museo de Antropologia, 2023 The article draws on our respective work on the transnational adoption files that ordered the movement of children from Guatemala to Europe in the latter part of the 20th century and up until 2007, to consider strategies to detect and figure the ...
Silvia Posocco, Sophie Villérs
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The Crime of Forced Disappearance of Persons According to the Decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [PDF]
, 2010 This article briefly addresses the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the crime of forced disappearance of persons and associated issues before analyzing the constitutive elements of the crime.
Juan Luis Modolell González
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O detido‑desaparecido: catástrofe civilizacional, desmoronamento da identidade e linguagem
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010 This article proposes the concept of catastrophe as a starting point for the construction of appropriate representation strategies for phenomena of extreme social violence, exploring the case of the forced disappearance of individuals in Argentina and ...
Gabriel Gatti
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