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The Right to Truth is a legal and moral principle asserting that individuals have the right to know the truth about serious human rights violations, including the circumstances of their occurrence, the identities of perpetrators, and the accountability mechanisms in place. It is essential for justice, reconciliation, and the prevention of future violations.
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The Right to Truth is a legal and moral principle asserting that individuals have the right to know the truth about serious human rights violations, including the circumstances of their occurrence, the identities of perpetrators, and the accountability mechanisms in place. It is essential for justice, reconciliation, and the prevention of future violations.

Key research themes

1. How has the right to truth evolved as an autonomous human right within international human rights law and jurisprudence?

This research theme investigates the development and recognition of the right to truth as a distinct human right in international legal frameworks and adjudicatory bodies. It explores how international courts and commissions, particularly the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), articulate and operationalize this right, focusing on cases related to enforced disappearances, torture, and other severe human rights violations. The theme is significant because it clarifies the normative content and scope of the right to truth, establishes state obligations for investigation and transparency, and addresses both individual and collective dimensions of truth-seeking essential for transitional justice and accountability.

Key finding: This paper delineates the emergence and consolidation of the right to truth through landmark case law of the ECtHR (e.g., El-Masri v. Macedonia) and the IACtHR (e.g., Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras), evidencing its evolution... Read more
Key finding: Bringing a philosophical and truth-theoretical lens, this paper argues for a pluralistic concept of alethic rights encompassing multiple facets of the human need for truth, thus supporting the juridical recognition of the... Read more
Key finding: This paper reveals the sociological and legal mobilizations fueling the construction of the right to truth in international law, showing that while diverse activist coalitions coalesce around this right to strengthen... Read more
Key finding: Examining historical and contemporary state practices, especially enforced disappearances in Latin America, the paper illustrates the instrumental role of the right to truth in addressing gross violations and its embedding in... Read more
Key finding: Through comprehensive analysis of international case law, particularly within the Inter-American system, this study demonstrates the judiciary's recognition of the right to truth as an essential human right. It clarifies that... Read more

2. What is the role and impact of truth-seeking mechanisms, memory laws, and judicial practices in transitional justice contexts regarding the right to truth?

This theme focuses on the practical implementation of the right to truth through mechanisms such as truth commissions, judicial 'truth-finding trials', memory laws, and social mobilization in societies undergoing political transitions from conflict or authoritarian regimes. Research in this area explores challenges of guaranteeing the right to truth, including legal limitations, competing political agendas, the distortion or instrumentalization of historical narratives, and the balancing of truth, justice, and reconciliation. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for designing effective transitional justice policies that satisfy victims' and societies' demands for accountability and historical clarity.

Key finding: This paper traces the institutionalization of the right to truth as an autonomous right within the Inter-American Human Rights System, particularly through its application to forced disappearances. It highlights the systemic... Read more
Key finding: Examining the interplay between state-imposed memory laws and the right to truth, this paper identifies the tension arising when memory laws intended to guarantee historical truth instead impose alternative official... Read more
Key finding: This study analyzes Argentina’s innovative truth-finding trials established during impunity laws, using criminal procedure to investigate past state crimes without adjudicating criminal responsibility. It reveals their hybrid... Read more
Key finding: Focusing on testimonial truth in transitional justice, this article argues that testimonies serve not only to establish factual historical accounts but also to address the unrepresentable wounds of past atrocities. Through... Read more
Key finding: This paper examines the difficulties and strategies in truth-telling initiatives within ethnically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting the absence of official truth commissions and the primacy of criminal... Read more

3. How do forensic science, civic engagement, and discourse analysis contribute to the realization and contestation of the right to truth in contexts of enforced disappearances and mass violence?

This theme explores the interdisciplinary intersections among forensic methodologies, civic activism, and critical discourse approaches in uncovering truth and challenging official narratives in societies affected by enforced disappearances and mass atrocities. Emphasis is placed on how forensic civism facilitates families’ involvement in locating the disappeared, how discourse constructs and contests moral and ideological truths within policy and public realms, and how these dynamics impact the practical realization of the right to truth and societal reconciliation.

Key finding: This ethnographic study introduces ‘forensic civism’, whereby relatives of the disappeared in Mexico and Colombia actively appropriate forensic science tools and collaborate with independent experts, fostering new forms of... Read more
Key finding: The paper argues for integrating philosophical inquiry into Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to produce reflexive methodologies capable of uncovering how moral valuations and ideological truths are constructed in social... Read more
Key finding: Using critical discourse analysis, this study reveals how political rhetoric, exemplified by the metaphor of 'diversity', ideologically sustains systemic inequality under the guise of meritocracy within Singapore’s... Read more

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Early literature in the field of transitional justice was dominated by debates over the meaning of justice, with retributivists arguing for the need for criminal prosecutions following mass human rights violations and advocates of... more
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