The Gender Perspective and the Truth Commissions: Learning from the Cases of Peru and East Timor

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Descripción: Abstract: The transition from armed conflicts or oppressive regimes to contexts of peace and democracy requires a thorough investigation of what happened during the time of violence. This crucial responsibility of clarifying a past period of abuses has been undertaken by truth commissions. However, the reconstruction of this truth cannot forget the inequalities women had to endure historically and the different impacts they suffer during wartime. In that sense, the truth-seeking work that truth commissions performed needs to incorporate a gender perspective, in order to fight the discrimination against women, and to include their point of view in the version of a country’s truth. Thus, two of the strongest truth commissions in the world have developed particular measures regarding women: Peru and East Timor. For that reason, this research identifies and analyse such actions. This with the aim of recognising the learnings of these experiences in gender issues and, based on them, build a proposal on how a truth commission should incorporate the gender perspective in its truth-seeking work.
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: Soraya Estefan Vargas, "The Gender Perspective and the Truth Commissions: Learning from the Cases of Peru and East Timor", Perú; Timor Oriental:-, 2017. Consultado en línea en la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá (https://www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/3711497/), el día 2025-08-18.

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