From April 24 to 27, 2023, a specialized team from the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) visited the city of Asunción in Paraguay to provide technical assistance to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of that country in order to implement the digital prosecutor’s file in the Specialized Unit for Economic Crimes and Anti-Corruption (UDEA). The technical assistance provided by JSCA includes the preparation of…
JSCA meets with Chile’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) visited Chile’s Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and met with the minister Luis Cordero Vega to discuss opportunities for collaboration within the framework of the minister’s new administration. The meeting addressed the problem of organized crime in Chile and the challenges faced by the State in terms of criminal prosecution and punishment of complex criminal networks.…
JSCA develops training courses on gender mainstreaming in criminal prosecution in Peru
In the framework of the development of training courses for the integration of a gender perspective in criminal prosecution for operators of Peru’s National Specialized Justice System for the Protection and Punishment of Violence against Women (SNEJ), carried out thanks to the collaboration of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the GIZ agency, JSCA presented to the country’s Judicial Branch and Public Prosecutor’s Office…
JSCA concludes its collaboration with the Chilean Judiciary to prepare a study on judicial responses to cases of intrafamily violence against women
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) concludes an important contribution to the Chilean Judicial Branch for the characterization of cases of intrafamily violence against women that enter the family justice system in which the Court declares itself incompetent and refers them to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. JSCA’s research department gathered information on approximately 2,500 family cases from all over Chile to prepare the…
JSCA implements a new project on civil and family conflict resolution in Colombia and Peru with a people-centered approach to justice
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) informs that it is in the initial phase of implementing the project “Civil and Family Dispute Resolution and its Effectiveness in Colombia and Peru,” in partnership with the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC). This is an unprecedented project, with a people-centered approach to justice, which will examine from a comparative perspective the efficiency of the…