Investigating abuses and introducing safeguards in the democratization process [electronic resource].

Published:: [Atlanta, Ga.] : Carter Center, [2003]
Physical Description:: 107 pages (552 KB) : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Emory University. Carter Center. Human Rights Program

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Contents:

Welcome address / Jimmy Carter -- Opening presentation / Jamal Benomar -- Confronting the past: justice after transitions -- The reconciliation debate: amnesty vs. justice -- Commissions of inquiry -- Human rights work in the post-repressive period -- Concluding remarks -- Jimmy Carter: hand-written note with tentative suggestions -- The Human Rights Program of The Carter Center of Emory University: follow-up activity -- Conference agenda -- Country profiles: how governments investigate past human rights abuses -- List of conference participants.

Summary:

The seminar that took place on July 6-7, 1992 at The Carter Center brought together participants from the press, human rights organizations, academia, government agencies, and commissions of inquiry from such countries as Argentina, Chad, Chile, the Philippines, and Uganda. Discussion revolved around governments' responses to a repressive past and their development of strategies to encourage and support the rule of law and long-term human rights protection.

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Title from PDF file title screen (viewed March 22, 2005).
"July 1992."

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).

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