Strengthening search processes: key lessons and pathways for effective search

Panelists will explore how search efforts can be integrated with criminal investigations to ensure a holistic approach to justice and truth; as well as the importance of coordination between judicial, extra-judicial, and community-based mechanisms. They will also discuss the role of technical expertise, cooperation and exchange of best practices in search processes.

Moderators

• Wilder TAYLER, Institución Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Defensoría del Pueblo (INDH), Director and Referent for the search for the detained-disappeared, Uruguay

• Carmen Rosa VILLA QUINTANA, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Member, Peru

Panelists

• Federico ANDREU-GUZMAN, Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), Director of Litigation and Legal Protection, Colombia

• Raquel CARDENAS, Senior Prosecutor of Lima – Human Rights Subsystem of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, Coordinator, Peru

• Yolanda MORÁN, Buscando Desaparecidos México (BÚSCAME), Director, Mexico

• Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP), Representative

• Emmanuel JOOF, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of The Gambia, Chairperson, The Gambia

• Luis FONDEBRIDER, Forensic Anthropologist – Former Director of the ICRC Forensic Unit – Former President of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), Argentina

• Fadwa MAHMOUD, Families for Freedom, Co-founder, Syria

  
  

Registration

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