“Fighting Corruption and Impunity in Guatemala,” a talk by Iván Velásquez Gómez, Lead Prosecutor of the Comission Against Impunity (CICIG) in Guatemala.
Iván Velásquez Gómez is a Colombian jurist and diplomat currently heading – at the rank of Assistant Secretary
General of the UN – the International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG) in Guatemala. Having been hugely successful in the fight against corruption, CICIG is now under threat of termination by Guatemala’s President Morales – but defended by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court. Velásquez has been honored with the World Human Rights Prize by the International Bar Association and with the Right Livelihood Award.
This event is sponsored by the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center, and the Global Justice Program and the MacMillan Center.