Estrategias para la búsqueda de justicia por crímenes internacional de género: el caso Ríos Montt

Abstract

Nowadays national Courts face the challenge of considering a gender perspective within international crimes cases. Courts and prosecutors, as well as victim's defendants and civil society, face the challenge of looking for strategies to proof international sex crimes that avoid the re-victimization of survivors. This article describes the strategy used to face gender crimes in Rios Mont case in Guatemala regarding genocide and crimes against humanity. This innovative experience was useful to points out gender aspects involved in international crimes. In practical terms, it refers to the treatment to survivors and the use of gender expert reports conceived as legal strategies to avoid or minimize the re-victimization of eye witnesses in international criminal cases. The article concludes determining some of the challenges that international crimes investigation and judgment currently held from a gender perspective.