Last month, nine years and 11 months after their children were disappeared, the parents of the 43 students ended their relationship with Mexico’s current government. In the absence of justice, the state’s mask has fallen.
In Colombia’s Pato River valley and wider Caguán basin, former combatants are caught in the crosshairs as peacebuilding efforts clash with dissident groups in the struggle to define the region’s legacy.
As the government takes aim at memory policies upheld during the past 40 years of democracy, pro-government lawmakers visit prisoners convicted of crimes against humanity.
A transnational adoptee born in El Salvador and raised in the United States shared his journey to uncovering his family's truth and finding his voice as a desaparecido.
Among the unanswered questions about the military’s response to the 1985 attack on the seat of the judiciary is what happened to the disappeared victims. New research sheds light on the role of an unassuming museum.
As a far-right, denialist government threatens to roll back hard-won gains, Argentine feminists and the mothers and grandmothers fighting for justice for the disappeared remain linked in a decades-old friendly bond of struggle.
As the government hides the staggering proportions of Mexico’s forensic crisis, the searching families of El Bosque de la Esperanza take control of their own narratives to resist stigmatization and erasure.
The ruling against the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit makes history in holding a U.S. company liable for abuses committed abroad. Lawyers say the case is just the beginning.
