IACHR Reception and Film Screening at WOLA

March 20, 2009

The Washington Office on Latin America

cordially invites you to a
reception
in honor of Latin American human rights defenders
who are visiting Washington, DC for the hearings of the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

and

and a film screening of 12.511 Rosendo Radilla Case:

An Open Wound from Mexico’s Dirty War  

With the presence of the lawyers for the case from the Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos

Monday March 23, 2009

The film will begin at 5:00pm (film length approximately 20 minutes)

Reception: 5:30 p.m. a 7:30 p.m.

WOLA
1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20009
202-797-2171

Please RSVP to Kristina DeMain at 202-797-2171 or at kdemain@wola.org

The film, 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.