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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Women Justice Group Presents: Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women & Transitional Justice: The Case of Guatemala

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Latina/Latino Studies; Humanities Research Institute
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306
Date: Sep 26, 2024 3:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj
Contact: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Originating Calendar: Latina/Latino Studies Event Calendar; 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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