Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Making Human Rights Violators Accountable
Description:
Mr. Carlos Mauricio, Director of the Stop Impunity Project and former professor at the Universidad de El Salvador, will talk about human rights, historical memory, and his own torture, in 1983, at the hands of the Salvadoran military, and about his role as one of three plaintiffs in Romagoza vs. García and Vides Casanova, which found two former Salvadoran Ministers of Defense guilty of torture and imprisonment. He currently works on building coalitions between NGOs in El Salvador and the Salvadoran community in the U.S. His forthcoming book Bajo Investigacion will be published in El Salvador.
{Will appear in FYI on Nov 15, 2011
Start Time:
3:30 PM
End Time:
5:30 PM
Room:
Multipurpose Room
Venue:
Reception Following Talk
Common Location Name:
St. Marys Hall
Other Contact Information:
Ana Patricia Rodriguez
Department of Spanish and Portuguese and SLLC
+1 301 405 2020
aprodrig@umd.edu
www.sllc.umd.edu/
