Representation of Past Atrocities: Enlightening the Past from the Present

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Representation of Past Atrocities: Enlightening the Past from the Present. Public seminar by Maria Jose Guembe, Argentinian human rights lawyer.

Maria Jose Guembe, is an Argentinian human rights lawyer. Currently she is a researcher and curator at the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination. She is a board member at CELS -Center for Legal and Social Studies-, the most important human rights organization in Argentina.
She has been appointed expert by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in cases discussing accountability for gross human rights violations. Maria played a central role in successfully challenging the impunity laws that were enacted after the military dictatorship.
Prof Siobhán Wills, TJI Director, chaired this seminar.
Period29 Nov 2022
Event typeSeminar
LocationBelfastShow on map