Searching for Colombia’s Missing Persons

October 22, 2024 01:41:34
Searching for Colombia’s Missing Persons
Events at USIP
Searching for Colombia’s Missing Persons

Oct 22 2024 | 01:41:34

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Show Notes

In Colombia, more than 100,000 people have disappeared over the course of the country’s six decades of ongoing armed conflict. On October 21, USIP and the Embassy of Colombia hosted a public presentation on the Missing Persons Search Unit’s remarkable forensic and restorative work, as well as the launch of "Still Missing: Colombia's Search for the Disappeared from Six Decades of Ongoing Conflict," a temporary photo exhibit at USIP that details the unit’s search efforts.

Speakers

Daniel García-Peña, opening remarks
Colombian Ambassador to the United States

Luz Janeth Forero 
Director, Missing Person Search Unit

Major (retired) Cesar Maldonado
Truth Provider as Former Colombian Army Officer

Daniela Mostacilla 
Family Member of Forced Disappearance Victim

Leyner Palacios 
Senior Expert on Restorative Justice, Colombia, U.S. Institute of Peace

Dr. Beth Van Schaackclosing remarks
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State

Steve Hegemoderator
Colombia Country Director, Colombia, U.S. Institute of Peace

 

For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/searching-colombias-missing-persons

 

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