IACHR Publishes Compendium on Comprehensive Redress With a Gender Perspective in Transitional Justice Contexts

May 31, 2024

Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has published the compendium Comprehensive Redress With a Gender Perspective in Transitional Justice Contexts. This compendium focuses on standards regarding comprehensive redress with differentiated, intersectional approaches in processes involving memory, truth, and justice. The document seeks to foster better knowledge of the various relevant standards developed by the IACHR through its different mechanisms.

The compendium systematically presents those standards to show the IACHR's historical efforts to promote comprehensive redress in transitional justice contexts. It also notes that intensifying discrimination and violence against women in dictatorships and other authoritarian contexts and in armed conflict settings require the adoption of a gender focus in all subsequent transitional justice measures. The compendium notes IACHR standards about the principle of equality and non-discrimination, complete with precedent concerning the application of a gender perspective to ensure comprehensive, transformative redress in transitional justice processes.

This compilation of standards seeks to be a starting point to expose risks and hurdles in access to redress programs for women, girls, adolescents, and LGBTI persons, among others. The document further seeks to address situations involving differentiated consequences of rights violations, gender stereotypes, specific risks faced by women, and structural inequality, as well as to ensure effective participation in all stages of the activities of redress mechanisms.

This compendium was drafted in the context of the Regional Project on Human Rights and Democracy, which the IACHR is conducting alongside the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). This project seeks to improve conditions to prevent human rights violations and to strengthen responses to human rights violations.

A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for and to defend human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this area. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in an individual capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.

No. 122/24

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