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Women Justice Group Series: Sexual violence against indigenous women and transitional justice. The case of Guatemala

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Center for Latin American and the Caribbean Studies
Location
Coble Hall, Room 306
Date
Sep 26, 2024   3:00 pm  
Speaker
Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj
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Originating Calendar
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

We are honored to welcome Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj,  Mayan K'ichee' anthropologist, as part of the Women Justice Group Series.

This presentation focuses on the problematic nature of court-ordered reparations and the struggle for human rights for indigenous people, specifically women, in Guatemala. By discussing the Sepur Zarco case, named after an almost unknown q’eqchi’ community in El Estor, Izabal department of northeast Guatemala, I would like to show how racism, sexual violence, and poverty coalesced during the Guatemalan genocide period from 1975 to 1988. This coalescence, in turn, not only increased the violent nature of state-sponsored human rights abuses, but also illustrates  how those oppressions continue to affect indigenous war survivors  today.


 

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