Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America

Karina Ansolabehere, National Autonomous University of Mexico,Leigh Payne, University of Oxford,Barbara Frey, University of Minnesota

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.

Leigh Payne is professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College.


Barbara Frey is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Global Studies and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.

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Note on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1. Conceptualising Post-Transition Disappearances, LEIGH A. PAYNE AND KARINA ANSOLABEHERE
2. Conceptualising Disappearances in International Law, BARBARA A. FREY
PART II. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
MEXICO
3. My Promise to Look for You, LUL? HERRERA WITH PAULA CUELLAR CUELLAR
4. Disappearances in Mexico: An Analysis based on the Northeast Region, KARINA ANSOLABEHERE AND ALVARO MARTOS
5. The Legal Framework on Disappearances in Mexico: From Demands to the Law and Back to Demands, SANDRA SERRANO AND VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST
BRAZIL
6. Woman, Mother, Human Rights Defender, DE?BORA MARIA DA SILVA WITH RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMP??O
7. State Violence in Brazil: Execution, Slaughter, and Disappearance in the Post-Authoritarian Era, JAVIER AMADEO AND RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMP??O
8. Systematic Recurrence of Murders and Disappearances in Democratic Brazil, MARLON ALBERTO WEICHERT
ARGENTINA
9. Letters for Santiago, SERGIO MALDONADO, GERM?N MALDONADO, STELLA PELOSO AND ENRIQUE MALDONADO
10. Disappearances in Post Transitional Argentina: A Challenge For Human Rights Intervention, NATALIA FEDERMAN, MARCELA PERELMAN, MICHELLE CA?AS COMAS AND GAST?N CHILLIER
EL SALVADOR
11. Wilson's Testimony: Abuse of Authority, 'WILSON'
12. New Generation of Disappearances: Gangs and the State in El Salvador, MARIA JOS? M?NDEZ
PART III. TOOLS FOR ADVOCACY AND MOBILIZATION
13. The Visual Image as a Tool of Power, LEIGH A. PAYNE AND HUNTER JOHNSON
14. Using the Minnesota Protocol to Investigate in Disappearance Cases, BARBARA A. FREY
15. 'Urgent Actions' for the Search of Disappeared Persons in the specialised Bodies of the United Nations, RAINER HUHLE
16. Using the International Criminal Court to Denounce Disappearances: Crimes against Humanity in Coahuila, Mexico, MICHAEL W. CHAMBERLIN
17. Forced disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System, SANDRA SERRANO
18. How to Create a Search Mechanism for Disappeared Persons: Lessons from Mexico, VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST
Conclusions
Index