Film Screening: Institutionalized Injustice and the Struggle against Impunity: ...

March 3, 2009

Peace Brigades International-USA, Amnesty International USA, Human Rights First, the U.S. Office on Colombia, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, the Washington Office on Latin America, and WITNESS cordially invite you to the following PBI Latin American Human Rights Defenders’(HRDs) delegation

tour event:

Institutionalized Injustice and the Struggle against Impunity:

The Dangerous Work of Human Rights Defenders

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Reception and Short Film Screening with the HRDs

12.511- Rosendo Radilla Case: An Open Wound from Mexico’s Dirty War (Produced by CMDPHD and WITNESS)

5:00pm

Washington Office on Latin America

1666 Connecticut Ave, 4^th Floor Conference Room

Washington, DC

RSVP to kdemain@wola.org or for information call (202) 797-2171.

Featuring Members of the 2009 PBI Latin American Human Rights Defenders’ Tour:

COLOMBIA - Gloria Gómez, National President, ASFADDES (the Association of the Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared)

MEXICO- Tita Radilla, Vice-President, AFADEM (the Association of the Family Members of the Detained, Disappeared, and Victims of Human Rights Violations in Mexico)

GUATEMALA-Wiebke Schramm, PBI Field Volunteer (OASIS, HIV/AIDS & LGBT Rights Organization)

12.511 Rosendo Radilla Case: An Open Wound from Mexico’s Dirty War was produced by WITNESS and the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos. It focuses on the disappearance of Rosendo Radilla, a respected community leader who was arrested on August, 25, 1974, in a military checkpoint near Acapulco.  To this day, his case remains unsolved and it is currently before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.  This documentary looks at the efforts of his daughter, Tita, and others, in their continued fight for truth and justice.