Archives of Truth: Documentary Screening on The Truth Commission of Ecuador

12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna

The Central European University masters course in "Tensions and Dilemmas in Transitional Justice," in conjunction with OSUN CELAS (Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences project), presents a screening of "Archives of Truth" followed by an interactive discussion on transitional justice in post-dictatorship Spain.

No Justice Without Truth

The Truth Commission of Ecuador (TCE) was created in May 2007 to investigate multiple allegations of serious human rights violations in the country, particularly in the period of 1984 - 1988, and also including cases committed up to 2008. After nearly three years of inquiries, collecting more than 600 testimonies and other documentary evidence, the TCE presented its final report "No Truth Without Justice," in which it analyzed 118 cases of human rights abuses.

The 30-minute documentary uncovers unpublished images and testimonies about important findings and conclusions of the investigation, showing evidence of homicides, sexual violence, enforced disappearances and torture of citizens in the hands of state agents in Ecuador.

Truth, Justice and Reparation: Learning from Latin-American and Spanish Experiences

The screening will be introduced by Gina Donoso, former member of the psychosocial team of the TCE in charge of collecting and presenting victims’ testimonies before the Truth Commission, as well as writing the chapter on psychosocial impacts in the Commission´s final report.  Dr. Donoso is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Central European University. She also works as a psychosocial and trauma consultant, and a transitional justice, gender, and reparations specialist.  Over the past 20 years, Dr. Donoso has also worked with the transitional justice mechanisms of Colombia, Uganda, Bolivia, the Gambia and several international organizations, including the International Criminal Court, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, and UN agencies.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Pau Pérez-Sales (Psychiatrist, Hospital La Paz, Madrid). He Has worked with the Guatemalan, Peruvian and Colombian Truth Comissions. He has worked in processes of exhumation of mass graves in Spain and elsewhere. As a forensic expert, he assessed victims of Spanish torturers for litigation in national and international courts.
 
Discussion moderator Leila Lawrence is a first-year student in the political science MA at CEU, specializing in social and political theory. She is editor of the CEU Student think tank project with Daddyhood Europe and is a featured panelist in discussions of misogyny and toxic masculinity in schools.

Gowri Niranjana, MA Human Rights will serve as discussant.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Online Event

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