Discussion on Identifying the Disappeared, September 19

The Washington Office on Latin America

Cordially invites you to attend a discussion on

Identifying the Disappeared in Latin America

An initiative of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG), the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)

Wednesday, September 19 from 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.
The Washington Office on Latin America
1630 Connecticut Ave, NW     
Suite 200
Washington, DC

RSVP: Joel Fyke, WOLA at 202-797-2171 or jfyke@wola.org

The Latin American Initiative for the Identification of the Disappeared (LAIID) aims to undertake exhumations, collect bone samples and complete DNA testing in order to identify thousands of individuals who died as a result of human rights violations and civil wars in Argentina, Guatemala, and Peru in recent decades.

Please join us for a discussion, featuring:

Fredy Peccerelli is the founder and director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala - FAFG).  Since forming the FAFG in 1992, Mr. Peccerelli and his team have made great strides in identifying some of the 45,000 who were disappeared and 150,000 who were killed during Guatemala's internal armed conflict.  Recently, in spite of death threats against both Fredy and other members of the team, they have been expanding their work into other areas, such as more recent cases of murders of women in Guatemala.

Mercedes Doretti is the co-founder, researcher and investigator of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense - EAAF). Through their investigations and identification of the remains of thousands of Argentines disappeared during the military regime, the EAAF has contributed greatly to the search for truth and justice. Mercedes Doretti and her colleagues are currently working to identify more than 60 women and girls brutally murdered in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, México.

José Pablo Baraybar leads several important projects with the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense - EPAF). Founded in 2001, is a non-governmental organization with scientific, humanitarian, social, and legal objectives.  It seeks to bring internationally accepted technical standards and methodologies to the forensic investigation of human rights crimes.  Baraybar previously took a leave of absence from the EPAF to head up the UN Office of Missing Persons and Forensics in Kosovo.