Human Rights Trials and Truth Commissions: What the US Can Learn from Latin America
Channel: Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: 21/01/2014

Juan Mendez
Washington College of Law, American University

In the wake of a steady stream of revelations regarding the treatment of prisoners in US military custody, their representatives and the American Public have been engaged in debates over the value, justice and dangers of investigating and/or prosecuting current and former US officials for torture and other human rights abuses. Should the current US administration decide to undertake such investigations, it would be following in the footsteps of other nations of the Americas including Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. The lecture will shed light and lessons from these experiences.

Hosted by: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In conjunction with: Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Center for Global Studies, College of Law, Department of Anthropology, Department of Political Science, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, European Union Center, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Forum for U.S. Studies, International Programs and Studies, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program