Memory as a pillar of Transitional Justice and Human Rights

Abstract

In Transitional Justice and human rights studies, one of the issues that have emerged with greater force in recent decades have been the study of memory associated to the events that constitute serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law. This study seeks to answer the question of how memory be understood as one of the pillars of transitional justice, which coexists along with truth, justice, reparation and guarantee of non-repetition. Thus, is studied the evolution of the topic of memory in international human rights law, its limits, mechanisms and instruments that configured it, and its current threats (denialism and hate speech).