Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America

Karina Ansolabehere is a Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIJ-UNAM) and part time Research Professor at FLACSO-Mexico. She is the principal investigator of the Observatory of Disappearances and Impunity in Mexico.Barbara A. Frey is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Global Studies and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.Leigh A. Payne is professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College.

this book helps us understand the causes for violations and sources of support for human rights. This is the first step towards that elusive vision of a world where Nunca Más is more than a political slogan.

• List of IllustrationsList of FiguresList of TablesNote on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK1: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND KARINA ANSOLABEHERE: Conceptualising Post-Transition Disappearances2: BARBARA A. FREY: Conceptualising Disappearances in International LawPART II. COUNTRY CASE STUDIESMEXICO3: LULÚ HERRERA WITH PAULA CUELLAR CUELLAR: My Promise to Look for You4: KARINA ANSOLABEHERE AND ALVARO MARTOS: Disappearances in Mexico: An Analysis based on the Northeast Region5: SANDRA SERRANO AND VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: The Legal Framework on Disappearances in Mexico: From Demands to the Law and Back to DemandsBRAZIL6: DE?BORA MARIA DA SILVA WITH RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPÇÃO: Woman, Mother, Human Rights Defender7: JAVIER AMADEO AND RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPÇÃO: State Violence in Brazil: Execution, Slaughter, and Disappearance in the Post-Authoritarian Era8: MARLON ALBERTO WEICHERT: Systematic Recurrence of Murders and Disappearances in Democratic BrazilARGENTINA9: SERGIO MALDONADO, GERMÁN MALDONADO, STELLA PELOSO AND ENRIQUE MALDONADO: Letters for Santiago10: NATALIA FEDERMAN, MARCELA PERELMAN, MICHELLE CAÑAS COMAS AND GASTÓN CHILLIER: Disappearances in Post Transitional Argentina: A Challenge For Human Rights InterventionEL SALVADOR11: 'WILSON': Wilson's Testimony: Abuse of Authority12: MARIA JOSÉ MÉNDEZ: New Generation of Disappearances: Gangs and the State in El SalvadorPART III. TOOLS FOR ADVOCACY AND MOBILIZATION13: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND HUNTER JOHNSON: The Visual Image as a Tool of Power14: BARBARA A. FREY: Using the Minnesota Protocol to Investigate in Disappearance Cases15: RAINER HUHLE: 'Urgent Actions' for the Search of Disappeared Persons in the specialised Bodies of the United Nations16: MICHAEL W. CHAMBERLIN: Using the International Criminal Court to Denounce Disappearances: Crimes against Humanity in Coahuila, Mexico17: SANDRA SERRANO: Forced disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System18: VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: How to Create a Search Mechanism for Disappeared Persons: Lessons from MexicoConclusionsIndex