Este reporte fue elaborado por Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga.
En la revista Cahiers Psychologie Politique (Vol. 23, 2013) se publicó un
artículo de Gina Donoso, titulado “Unsilencing Victims: The Role of Cross-Cultural Psychosocial
Interventions in Reparation Processes for Victims of Human Rights Violations. The Inter-American System Experience. Este es el resumen del artículo:
“Reparations for victims and survivors of
severe human rights violations are a challenging field. It is during this
process that victims often place their hopes of finding justice and redress.
However, victims’ voices are frequently unheard and secondary victimization
during proceedings is recurrent. In general, legal and social institutions are
limited to a repair the irreparable. In Latin-America, but in many other
places, this complexity has been even more intricate when the ethnic component
is part of the scenario. Cultural
differences are usually unidentified or overlooked. Psychosocial interventions
and mental health care in cross-cultural reparation processes for human rights
violations may contribute to redress victims and communities comprehensively. However, they face a number of
epistemological and practical shortcomings (e.g. lack of interdisciplinary
policies) that will be explored along the document. For this purpose,
paradigmatic indigenous cases from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights are
examined. Finally, I will argue that a more interdisciplinary research and
practice combining law with social psychology and anthropology can innovatively
advise policy makers in the global human rights area. Effective and adequate cross-cultural
psychosocial processes, although they cannot ensure successful trial outcomes
for victims, may still contribute to the victims’ recovery by promoting
self-agency and sensitiveness.”