In Vindication of Justiciable Victims\u27 Rights to Truth and Justice for State-Sponsored Crimes

In this Article, Professor Aldana-Pindell explores the norms establishing a state\u27s responsibility to grant victims of human rights violations adequate rights in the criminal prosecution process as a remedy for their victimization. She argues that victim-focused prosecution norms comport and provide more effective means of promoting respect for human rights, in certain nations in democratic transition from mass atrocities. Moreover, she suggests that, as part of other justice reforms, states plagued with impunity should adopt criminal procedures granting surviving human rights victims greater standing in the prosecution process. Professor Aldana-Pindell then uses Guatemala to examine the factors that compel the need for reformed victim\u27s rights in a country whose criminal justice system is wrought with incompetence and corruption

A emergência da responsabilidade criminal individual no Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos

Este artigo analisa a emergência e difusão da regra da responsabilidade criminal individual por violações de direitos humanos a partir da jurisprudência contenciosa da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Tendo como referência as pesquisas de Kathryn Sikkink sobre justiça de transição, procura-se identificar a maneira como o Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos vem expandindo o sentido da responsabilidade criminal individual e também sugerir a incompatibilidade com a proteção dos direitos humanos que esse novo modelo pode ter.<br>This paper analyzes the emergence and diffusion of the norm of individual criminal accountability for human rights violations from the perspective of the contentious jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights Court. Taking as reference the research of Kathryn Sikkink on transitional justice, this paper seeks to identify how the Inter-American Human Rights System has been expanding the meaning of individual criminal accountability and also suggests the incompatibility with the protection of human rights that this new model may have