Reflections on progress and setbacks in the work to combat enforced disappearance

On 2 December, we held a Seminar on Enforced Disappearance in Bilbao (Basoko Etxea, UPV/EHU). The activity was supported by the participation and reflections of family members seeking and demanding justice: Alejandra Cabrera, the daughter of a father disappeared by the Guatemalan State, and Gloria Guzmán, daughter of a mother, father, and brother disappeared by the Salvadorian State, with both cases of enforced disappearance occurring in the 1980s.

Likewise, three specialists participated in reflections on the progress and setbacks in the work to combat enforced disappearance: David Morales, coordinator of the Transitional Justice Department of the Cristosal de El Salvador organisation, claimant in the El Mozote Massacre case and others; Carlos Martin Beristain, Ex-Commissioner of Truth and member of the Colombian National Search System Advisory Commission, and Francisco Etxeberria, from the Aranzadi Sciences Society Forensic Anthropology Team and professor at the UPV/EHU.

The seminar was attended by 35 individuals from diverse fields (academia, cooperation, feminist associations, etc.) and family members of enforced disappearance victims that are working from exile to search for the truth and justice for this crime against humanity.

This initiative falls within the following project financed by eLankidetza - Basque Agency for Cooperation and Solidarity: “Supporting women defenders of the right to truth, justice, and reparation with a gender-based and local-global approach. Knowledge exchange, training, and creation of pedagogical resources”.

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