Justice Accompaniment Programme Ii Report 2015 - 2019
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TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE ACCOMPANIMENT PROGRAMME II REPORT 2015 - 2019 TRUTH - JUSTICE - REPARATION - NON-RECURRENCE REPORT 2015 - 2019 Transitional Justice Accompaniment Programme II PAJUST REPORT, 2015-2019 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ©UNDP 2020 5 Avenida 5-55, Zona 14, Transitional Justice Accompaniment Programme II Edificio Europlaza, Torre IV, Nivel 10, Guatemala UNDP Phone (502) 2384-3100 www.gt.undp.org Ana María Díaz Resident Representative Daniel Vargas Deputy Representative Democratic Governance Area Claudia de Saravia Programme Officer Leslie Santizo Programme Associate REPORT Transitional Justice Accompaniment Programme Team María Salomé García Ortiz 2015 - 2019 Programme Coordinator Feliciana Mendoza Project Officer Liz Marroquín Liaison Facilitator María José De León Responsible of Monitoring and Evaluation Ligia Lemus de Donis Finance and Administrative Assistant Report prepared by: Liz Marroquín, Liaison Facilitator, supported by the PAJUST team, coordinated by María Salomé García. Proofreading by Xiomara Campos Photography by Caroline Trutmann, James Rodríguez, Fernanda Zelada Design and Layout by Xiomara Campos Cover: Altar with offerings for the victims of a massacre at Río Negro- Translation by Tatiana Paz Lemus Pacux, Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. PAJUST II has had the support of: United Nations Peacebuilding Acronyms Index ABJP Popular Legal Law Firm Association PRESENTATION 11 ACOPDRI Organized Community Association for the Development of the Uprooted Population in the Ixil PAJUST 13 Region, NGO ADIVIMA Association for the Integral Development of the Victims of the Violence of the Verapaces, Maya Achi’ PAJUST 2015-2019 14 DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid SCOPE OF ACTIONS 16 ADICI Association of Indigenous Community Integral Development STRATEGY 18 AJKEMAB’ Association Ajkemab’Rech K’aslemal OUTCOMES 20 AGCA Central American General Archive Truth is the first step towards peace 22 AHPN Historical Archive of the National Police Historical archives at the service of society 24 ASOCDENEB Peasant Association of Nebajense Development ASOQ´ANIL Association Q’anil Maya Kaqchikel Laws that advance truth 26 ASOMOVIDINQ Association of Victim’s Movement for the Integral Development of Northern Quiché Searching for and reuniting missing children 27 BDH Human Rights Law Firm Life story: Until we find you 28 CALDH Centre for Human Rights Legal Action Closing the access to justice gap 30 CEH Commission for Historical Clarification Women break the silence 32 CONAVIGUA National Coordinator of Widows of Guatemala CONCODIG National Council of Communities for the Comprehensive Development of Guatemala People-centered justice 34 HR Human Rights A human rights defense policy 35 IAC Internal Armed Confrontation Joint efforts with United Nations 35 ECAP Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team Innovation 36 ENFC National Strategy for Citizenship Education Life story: Creating space for justice 38 FAFG Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala Dignity for survivors 40 FAMDEGUA Association of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared of Guatemala FMM Myrna Mack Foundation Helping families end mourning 42 FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Forensic sciences at the service of human rights 44 GAM Mutual Support Group Innovation 46 WGEID Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Life story: Recovering their family history 48 IIARS International Institute of Learning for Social Reconciliation Strengthening guarantees of non-recurrence 50 LGHM Guatemalan Mental Health League Changing citizenship education 52 MICUDE Ministry of Culture MINEDUC Ministry of Education Museums for peace 54 MP Public Prosecutor’s Office Web platforms for learning history 56 OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Preserving collective memory through photography 57 ODHAG Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala Innovation 58 PAJUST UNDP Transitional Justice Accompaniment Programme Life story: Democracy in the classroom 60 PNR National Reparations Programme UNDP United Nations Development Programme PARTNERS FOR CHANGE 62 RENAP National Registry of Persons PARTNERS, RESOURCES, AND CONTRIBUTIONS 64 SICOMP Public Prosecutor’s Office Computer System for Case Management Control UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization PRESENTATION Across the globe, strengthening the rule of law justice, and reparations of people affected by the and the peace culture are vital elements of UNDP internal armed confrontation in Guatemala, as well programmes. We work to improve justice systems as the promotion of guarantees of non-recurrence and focus on prevention measures, such as for the Guatemalan society. fostering social inclusion mechanisms and creating opportunities for women, indigenous peoples, and Transitional justice processes are fundamental youth. to strengthen democracy, human rights, and governance. As such, these are long-term processes In 2010, UNDP Guatemala launched the first that demand sustained work overtime. Following phase of the Transitional Justice Accompaniment the Country’s Programme Document for the Programme (PAJUST) to answer the challenges period 2015-2019, approved by the Government of in observing the peace agenda, a joint effort Guatemala, the second phase of PAJUST initiated with key development stakeholders such as State in 2015 with the approval of SEGEPLAN. In this entities, civil society, academic institutions, and second phase, the programme is aligned with the international cooperation. National Development Plan K’atun, Our Guatemala 2032, and the Sustainable Development Agenda During the first phase, PAJUST worked as a platform 2030. Specifically, it contributes to the National to connect different stakeholders involved in Development Priorities and its Strategic Targets transitional justice initiatives, becoming an effective for Development 11 and 12, both regarding the mechanism to exchange knowledge, lessons creation of efficient, responsible, and transparent learned, resources, and strategies to strengthen the institutions. rule of law and peace culture. The foundation of the programme is a human-rights based approach. From this comprehensive approach, along Indeed, its main work axes are the accompaniment with 29 national partners, the programme has in pursuit of the exercise of the rights to the truth, provided support for unprecedented progress 11 regarding access to truth, justice, and reparation Historical Memory, and Human Rights produced of victims and survivors of the internal armed the National Strategy for Citizenship Education. confrontation, mainly women and indigenous This in-class learning process is now integrated into people. Simultaneously, it favors progress in the the national education system, thus contributing to observance of the Sustainable Development Goals peace-committed citizenship. (SDG), mainly of SDG 16 «Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions» and SDG 5 «Gender Equality and The programme has worked in close collaboration Women’s Empowerment». with families of victims and survivors; civil society, community and human rights organizations; state During this implementation period, the programme institutions; United Nations agencies; and donors. has accompanied the Public Prosecutor’s Office At UNDP, we have supported and facilitated these PAJUST (MP) in designing 12 tools to strengthen the work alliances in order to achieve optimal outcomes, of justice system operators, including a Human creating synergy among the different stakeholders Rights Policy for Criminal Prosecution by the Public of this process. Special gratitude goes to our Prosecutor’s Office. national partners for their hard work in every one of the actions undertaken. We thank all the people The programme continued its support to the who, through different roles, have made possible conservation and digitalization of documents from hundreds of actions in favor of the population and the Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN), communities with whom we work. under the tutelage of the Central American General Archive (AGCA) from the Ministry of Culture Achieving the outcomes mentioned above would (MICUDE). A team of national and international not have been possible without the support experts worked in the digitalization and archival provided by donor countries and international processing of more than 25 million pages. cooperation agencies, committed to the peace agenda and sustainable development for everyone. An annual average of 3,200 victims received We especially acknowledge the Embassy of Sweden free of charge legal and psychosocial services. for its invaluable contribution and support along Additionally, more than 505 cases of missing the way. children were positively resolved, benefiting more than 3,000 family members. Experts in forensic At UNDP, we remain committed to people, state science exhumed the remains of more than 8,000 institutions, and organizations we have worked with victims, providing evidence for the investigation of through the years because, despite all the critical missing person cases and the identification of 3,384 steps taken so far, there are still many challenges to victims. achieve a more just and inclusive society. A coordinated effort with the Ministry of Education Ana María Diaz and the Technical Taskforce on Education for Peace, Resident Representative Previous and following pages: Wake and funeral procession for the victims of the 1982 massacre at Quiquil, a hamlet of Santa Cruz