US-based Central America Events

If you are in the New York or D.C. area on Thursday, there are some great events scheduled. In New York, The Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, CUNY has put together a conference on New Pathways to Justice: An International Conference to Stop Violence Against Women in Central America.

The conference will feature more than a dozen speakers from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, as well as the United States, representing a panoply of institutions and organizations, from "cold case" detectives and forensic specialists to prosecutors, judges, and human rights advocates...

The aim of the conference is to stop violence against women in Central America, including feminicide (the murder of women), promote human rights, and enhance women's participation in their respective societies. Crime-scene investigations, forensic methods, and prosecutor investigations will be discussed.

The conference includes an impressive list of US and international speakers and is free and open to the public. It will also be broadcast live at http://www.lehman.edu/.

However, if you can't make the NY conference but are instead fortunate enough to be in the Washington, D.C. areaon Thursday, the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the World Bank are hosting

CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA

With

FRANCISCO DALL’ANESE, COMMISSIONER

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION AGAINST IMPUNITY IN GUATEMALA (CICIG)

FELIPE JARAMILLO,

COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR CENTRAL AMERICA, THE WORLD BANK

RODRIGO SERRANO-BERTHET, Senior SOCIAL Development Specialist, THE WORLD BANK

JEANNETTE AGUILAR, DIRECTOR, IUDOP, UNIVERSIDAD CENTROAMERICANA, EL SALVADOR

You'll be able to view the webcast here.

It looks like you won't go wrong with either event.