Science Society Aranzadi-Aranzadi zientziak elkartea

The Department of Anthropology Aranzadi specifically researches the field of biological anthropology studies and paleopathology. Having the necessary collaboration and coordination with various professionals in the School of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of the Basque Country, the Department works specifically with anthropological findings in Gipuzkoa and performs in accordance with archaeological excavations in this territory. Under the guidance of Dr. Etxeberria, Aranzadi has participated since 2000 in many of the exhumations of mass graves of the Civil War throughout different parts of Spain.

Link: Science Society Aranzadi-Aranzadi zientziak elkartea

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)

The International Center for Transitional Justice works to redress and prevent the most severe violations of human rights by confronting legacies of mass abuse. ICTJ seeks holistic solutions to promote accountability and create just and peaceful societies.

Link: The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)

International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.

Link: International Criminal Court

Documentation Center of Historical Memory

The Documentation Center of Historical Memory, located in the city of Salamanca, is a rich collection of documentation that can be used by citizens directly, by consulting the original documents or indirectly requesting the information they need through the information services center. The center performs document reproduction and conservation, description and dissemination, and thereby ensures the permanence of this part of the documentary heritage of the nation and provides public access to information that serves to guarantee the rights and knowledge of the recent historical past.

Link: Documentation Center of Historical Memory

Missing People, DNA and ID, ICRC 2009

A guide to best practice in armed confl icts and other situations of armed violence. International Committee of the Red Cross

Link: Missing People, DNA and ID, ICRC 2009

The Missing and Their Families

The Missing:Action to resolve the problem of people unaccounted for as a result of armed conflict or internal violence and to assist their families ICRC REPORT: THE MISSING AND THEIR FAMILIES Summary of the Conclusions arising from Events held prior to the International Conference of Governmental and Non-Governmental Experts (19-21 February 2003)

Link: The Missing and Their Families

Istanbul Protocol

The Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the Istanbul Protocol, is the first set of international guidelines for documentation of torture and its consequences. It became an official United Nations document in 1999. The Istanbul Protocol is intended to serve as a set of international guidelines for the assessment of persons who allege torture and ill treatment, for investigating cases of alleged torture, and for reporting such findings to the judiciary and any other investigative body.

Link: Istanbul Protocol

Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Spanish)

Drafted in consultation with lawyers from The Advocates for Human Rights (formerly the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee), this manual, which supplements the Principles on the effective prevention and investigation of extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions (adopted by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1989/65 of 24 May 1989), contains international human rights standards, a model protocol for investigating extra-legal, arbitrary, and summary executions, a model autopsy protocol, and a model protocol for disinterment and analysis of skeletal remains.

Link: Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Spanish)

Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (English)

Drafted in consultation with lawyers from The Advocates for Human Rights (formerly the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee), this manual, which supplements the Principles on the effective prevention and investigation of extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions (adopted by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1989/65 of 24 May 1989), contains international human rights standards, a model protocol for investigating extra-legal, arbitrary, and summary executions, a model autopsy protocol, and a model protocol for disinterment and analysis of skeletal remains.

Link: Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (English)

Nomes e voces / The Names and Voices

This is a space designed to facilitate access to current research in history that specializes in information about the Civil War and the Franco regime in Galicia. The project intends to study the Francoist repression during the Civil War and dictatorship, and to provide data on people who have suffered some form of persecution because of their ideology or support of republican democracy. This task refers to the perspective of historical research as part of a growing interest of specialists in the field of the Civil War and the subsequent repression.

Link: Nomes e voces / The Names and Voices