Past Human Rights
Violations in Latin America
and the Right to Redress
Mini-Seminar and Discussion
Monday April 29th, 13 - 16
Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, room Nedjma
Programme
13.00
Words of Introduction – Jemima García-Godos
13.15 – 13.45
Victim Reparation in the Interamerican Human Right System –
Clara Sandoval-Villalba
13.45 – 14.15
The Rights of Victims in Criminal Justice Proceedings for Serious
Human Rights Violations – Juan Ochoa
14.15 – 14.30
Coffee break
14.30 – 15.00
The right to redress under the UN Convention against Torture –
Nora Sveaass
15.00 – 15.40
Panel-presentations by:
Jemima García-Godos: Victims’ rights in Colombia
Anne-Margrethe Sønneland: Trials in Argentina – survivor voices
30 years after.
Line Baagøe-Rasmussen: Socio-economic rights and Transtional
justice in Peru
1540 – 1600
Elin Skaar: Discussant (tbc) – Questions, discussion and summary
Participants
Clara Sandoval-Villalba
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network
(ETJN), Member of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
Nora Sveaass
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Member of UN
Committee against Torture
Jemima García-Godos
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University
of Oslo
Anne-Margrethe Sønneland
Research Fellow, Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo
Juan Ochoa
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Norwegian Center for Human Rights, University of
Oslo
Line Baagøe-Rasmussen
Researcher, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, Copenhagen
Elin Skaar
Senior Researcher, Christian Michelsens Institutt, Bergen
Organiser
The seminar is organized by Transtional justice and livelihoods a Research group of
LEVE - Livelihoods in Developing Countries: Health, the Environment, and Poverty,
a research initiative at the University of Oslo and in collaboration with Norlarnet,
Norwegian Latin America Research Network.
The aim is to look into recent developments with regard to the right to reparation
under international law, with a special focus on past human rights violations in Latin
America and the right to redress in a Latin American context.
Registration
Registration
Please register for the seminar at the LEVE web site (use the link or the QR code
below).
www.uio.no/leve